George Adams, Don Pullen
Life Line (LP)
LabelTimelessGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): EX- (marks not affecting play) / VG (tape repair on top seam and corner and general wear)
Two men out of the Charles Mingus workshop who learned there that a band can be violent and gorgeous in the same bar. George Adams plays tenor like a preacher losing his temper, Don Pullen attacks the piano with the backs of his hands and then drops into the most tender voicings imaginable, and behind them Cameron Brown and Dannie Richmond hold a groove that never once feels like a compromise. Life Line catches this quartet in its first flush, when the mix of gospel, hard bop and outright free playing still felt genuinely dangerous. Nothing here is polite. Everything here swings.
Original Dutch Timeless pressing from 1981. One of the great working bands of the late twentieth century, documented before anyone had decided what to call it.
Release notes
Recorded at Fendal Sound Recording Studio Loenen aan de Vecht, Holland. ℗ © 1981 Timeless Records Tracks A1, B3 published by Andredon Music Tracks A2, B1, B2 published by Geada Music Track A3 published by Pamin Music (on label) / Pamin Pub on back The original back cover had the sequence of titles and timings wrong. On some copies (for example, the one depicted in the images of this release) a correction was glued on top.
| A1 | The Great Escape, Or Run John Henry Run | 4:36 | |
| A2 | Seriously Speaking | 7:59 | |
| A3 | Soft Seas | 7:15 | |
| B1 | Nature´s Children | 9:42 | |
| B2 | Protection | 1:35 | |
| B3 | Newcomer; Seven Years Later | 9:30 |
- Cameron Brown
- Bass
- HPC B.V. Arnhem
- Cover [Cover Design], Design [Cover Design]
- Dannie Richmond
- Drums
- C
- Lacquer Cut By
- Don Pullen
- Piano
- Wim Wigt
- Producer [Produced By]
- Jan Kranendonk
- Recorded By [Recording Engineer], Engineer [Recording Engineer]
- George Adams
- Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax], Flute, Vocals
