don pullen and george adams quartet – 23 oct 1985, bologna, italy

it’s been a seriously don pullen – george adams day around here.  i’ve listened to must be 4 or 5 concerts, over 10 hours of music.  been working, been working, but i still got a long way to go.  started the day with the django bates concert that i’d been messing with last weekend, thought i’d finish with one of these shows.  in this one, that was shared by bluenote2005 in sept 2007 (which was a good period on dime for pullen-adams shows, btw), the taper’s self assessment is about right: source aud, sound b.  maybe a little bit better? (though the piano is rather faint) and like so many pullen-adams shows, the energy just bleeds right through in any case.

don pullen and george adams quartet
bologna, italy
23 october 1985

george adams- tenor,
don pullen- piano
cameron brown- bass
danny richmond- drums

disc 1 (64:04):

01. city gates (adams) 18:44
02. song from the old country (pullen) 13:53
03. sing me a song everlasting (pullen) 16:08
04. well, i guess we’ll never know (pullen) 15:18

disc 2 (64:22):

01. we’ve been here all the time (pullen) 13:04
02. message urgent (adams) 18:01
03. how deep is the ocean? (berlin) 22:27
04. big alice (pullen) 9:59

total time 128:26

source: audience
sound: b

sample: d1 t01 (incomplete).mp3
download: Pullen-Adams_1985-10-23_BolognaItaly.zip

covers were in the seed i downloaded; don’t know if it was by bluenote2005 or the original seeder.