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17834879 | Play | Plus Equal Minus Balance | 00:00 Tools | |
17834891 | Play | Encore | 12:46 Tools | |
17834951 | Play | The Harmonic Veil | 06:23 Tools | |
17834982 | Play | Scaledance | 05:55 Tools | |
17834887 | Play | Duet For Contrabass And Piano | 06:00 Tools | |
17834908 | Play | Duet For Violin And Piano | 10:01 Tools | |
17834916 | Play | Crossbeams | 07:34 Tools | |
17834968 | Play | Balu | 07:47 Tools | |
17834934 | Play | Before And After | 08:37 Tools | |
17834880 | Play | Afrisong | 05:09 Tools | |
17834987 | Play | Mama and Daddy | 07:31 Tools | |
17834886 | Play | Levels and Degrees of Light | 10:34 Tools | |
17834961 | Play | Fafca | 08:09 Tools | |
17834881 | Play | The Infinitive Flow | 06:10 Tools | |
17834959 | Play | The Junction | 08:33 Tools | |
17834897 | Play | The Bird Song | 22:54 Tools | |
17834885 | Play | Blu Blu Blu | 00:00 Tools | |
17834882 | Play | Bloodline | 00:00 Tools | |
17834890 | Play | Cycles Five | 00:00 Tools | |
17834904 | Play | The Visibility Of Thought | 05:14 Tools | |
17834884 | Play | Peace On You | 07:41 Tools | |
17834883 | Play | Hymn To the East | 04:39 Tools | |
17834952 | Play | Piano Duet #1 | 10:46 Tools | |
17834923 | Play | Piano Imporvisation | 29:22 Tools | |
17834889 | Play | Arhythm Songy | 08:55 Tools | |
17834894 | Play | One For The Whistler | 00:00 Tools | |
17834918 | Play | My Thoughts Are My Future - Now And Forever | 09:42 Tools | |
17834971 | Play | Malic | 08:10 Tools | |
17834888 | Play | Charlie In the Parker | 09:05 Tools | |
17834895 | Play | Septone | 00:00 Tools | |
17834892 | Play | Roots | 04:02 Tools | |
17834898 | Play | Blues For M. | 03:49 Tools | |
17834985 | Play | Think All, Focus One | 05:36 Tools | |
17834896 | Play | Petsrof | 00:00 Tools | |
17834901 | Play | Stretch Time | 00:00 Tools | |
17834973 | Play | Part 1 | 21:01 Tools | |
17834906 | Play | The New People | 10:13 Tools | |
17834990 | Play | Part 2 | 18:19 Tools | |
17834900 | Play | Balladi | 09:08 Tools | |
17834907 | Play | Ancient And Future Reflections | 06:50 Tools | |
17835027 | Play | Part 3 | 20:12 Tools | |
17834899 | Play | OQA | 07:02 Tools | |
17834893 | Play | Blues Forever | 09:04 Tools | |
17834911 | Play | Duet For One World | 04:56 Tools | |
17834930 | Play | Textures 95 | 07:10 Tools | |
17834905 | Play | RITOB | 07:54 Tools | |
17834925 | Play | March Of The Transients | 00:00 Tools | |
17834917 | Play | Du King (Dedicated To Duke Ellington) | 02:02 Tools | |
17834909 | Play | Chambea | 07:32 Tools | |
17834943 | Play | Baritone Voice And String Quartet | 10:37 Tools | |
17834910 | Play | Panorama | 06:01 Tools | |
17834922 | Play | The Prism 3 | 09:18 Tools | |
17834920 | Play | Hearinga | 05:11 Tools | |
17834903 | Play | Quartet To Quartet | 07:08 Tools | |
17834914 | Play | Cluster For Many Worlds | 05:05 Tools | |
17834945 | Play | 11 Over 4 | 12:02 Tools | |
17834938 | Play | Ballad For New Souls | 05:05 Tools | |
17834958 | Play | Drumman Cyrille | 00:00 Tools | |
17834931 | Play | Conversations With The Three Of Me | 05:45 Tools | |
17834933 | Play | Seesall | 05:28 Tools | |
17834912 | Play | Rejoicing with the Light | 08:49 Tools | |
17834953 | Play | Tribute To Julius Hemphill And Don Pullen | 04:07 Tools | |
17834941 | Play | Oldfotalk | 06:43 Tools | |
17834935 | Play | Wise in time | 21:52 Tools | |
17834950 | Play | Finditnow | 06:27 Tools | |
17834937 | Play | Hydepth | 13:35 Tools | |
17834919 | Play | One Line, Two Views | 11:56 Tools | |
17834932 | Play | Bermix | 06:56 Tools | |
17834902 | Play | Spiral to Clarity | 04:38 Tools | |
17834940 | Play | Young At Heart | 29:24 Tools | |
17834936 | Play | Way Way Way Down Yonder | 05:33 Tools | |
17834969 | Play | W.W. [dedicated To Wilbur Ware] | 05:01 Tools | |
17834927 | Play | Ensemble Song | 18:37 Tools | |
17834913 | Play | Blessed Be the Heavens at 12 | 09:40 Tools | |
17834947 | Play | J. G. [dedicated To Johnny Griffin] | 05:39 Tools | |
17834989 | Play | Sightsong/two Over One | 12:40 Tools | |
17834965 | Play | Things To Come From Those Now Gone | 04:09 Tools | |
17834929 | Play | Marching With Honor | 10:56 Tools | |
17834956 | Play | In Retrospect | 00:00 Tools | |
17834924 | Play | Triverse | 08:25 Tools | |
17834921 | Play | Ballad For Old Souls | 06:42 Tools | |
17835026 | Play | Munktmunk | 00:00 Tools | |
17834979 | Play | 1 And 4 Plus 2 And 7 | 11:40 Tools | |
17835007 | Play | How Are You? | 00:00 Tools | |
17834926 | Play | Inneroutersight | 06:57 Tools | |
17834928 | Play | Meditation 1 | 04:35 Tools | |
17835100 | Play | Piano-Cello Song | 00:00 Tools | |
17835001 | Play | Soprano Song | 00:00 Tools | |
17835014 | Play | Miss Richards | 00:00 Tools | |
56403087 | Play | The Heart Is Love And 'I Am' | 00:00 Tools | |
17834964 | Play | Afri Song | 05:06 Tools | |
17834949 | Play | Spihumonesty | 03:04 Tools | |
17835065 | Play | Introspection | 00:00 Tools | |
17834944 | Play | Unichange | 06:38 Tools | |
87629710 | Play | Unitry [Dedicated to the AACM] | 00:00 Tools | |
17834955 | Play | Song For All | 06:37 Tools | |
17834957 | Play | Dabadubada | 08:54 Tools | |
17835018 | Play | Blue Monk | 07:32 Tools | |
17834942 | Play | Drumbutu | 17:19 Tools | |
17835005 | Play | Crepuscule With Nellie | 03:39 Tools | |
17834972 | Play | Imagine | 04:02 Tools | |
17834977 | Play | Blues To You | 04:56 Tools | |
17834980 | Play | Aura of Thought- Things | 04:36 Tools | |
17834915 | Play | Heart Is Love and "I Am" | 10:29 Tools | |
17835003 | Play | Miss Richarda | 05:52 Tools | |
17834984 | Play | I mean You | 08:25 Tools | |
17835092 | Play | Announcement by Verna Gillis | 00:41 Tools | |
17834962 | Play | King (dedicated To Duke Ellington) | 02:03 Tools | |
17834963 | Play | Over The Same Over | 19:59 Tools | |
17834960 | Play | GMBR | 13:49 Tools | |
17834946 | Play | Illuso | 15:14 Tools | |
17834996 | Play | Ask Me Now | 08:03 Tools | |
17835009 | Play | Hearings | 05:11 Tools | |
17835025 | Play | Transparency of Lobo Lubu | 10:00 Tools | |
17835071 | Play | Four In One | 10:17 Tools | |
17835012 | Play | Gallop's Gallop | 03:42 Tools | |
17834978 | Play | Linetime | 09:10 Tools | |
17834986 | Play | Focus, ThruTime…Time→ Part 3 | 05:59 Tools | |
17835067 | Play | Colors in Thiry-Third | 00:00 Tools | |
17835019 | Play | Introduction by Nat Hentoff | 06:39 Tools | |
17834992 | Play | Miss Amina | 07:45 Tools | |
56403089 | Play | Focus, ThruTime…Time→ Part 1 | 29:22 Tools | |
17834939 | Play | Blu Blu Blu (Dedicated to McKinley Morganfield (a/k/a Muddy Waters)) | 09:17 Tools | |
17835050 | Play | Poetry by Amiri Baraka | 01:20 Tools | |
17835016 | Play | Piano Improvisation | 29:22 Tools | |
17834975 | Play | W.W. (Dedicated to Wilbur Ware) | 05:00 Tools | |
17834988 | Play | SoundDance Part 2 | 11:17 Tools | |
17835097 | Play | Swang Rag Swang | 04:34 Tools | |
17834967 | Play | Sound Image Of the Past, Present and Future | 05:19 Tools | |
17835083 | Play | Colors in Thirty-Third | 06:38 Tools | |
17835011 | Play | Lifea Blinec | 00:00 Tools | |
17834966 | Play | Down the Street from the Gene Ammons Public School | 05:07 Tools | |
17835017 | Play | Duo 2 | 05:01 Tools | |
17835022 | Play | Duo 1 | 08:20 Tools | |
17834974 | Play | Harmonic Veil | 06:23 Tools | |
17834997 | Play | Steamin' up the Road | 07:14 Tools | |
17834983 | Play | SoundDance Part 3 | 05:20 Tools | |
17835084 | Play | Laja | 06:38 Tools | |
56403090 | Play | Focus, ThruTime…Time→ Part 2 | 05:19 Tools | |
17835024 | Play | Dance From The East | 06:02 Tools | |
17835039 | Play | One For Peggy | 04:12 Tools | |
17835077 | Play | View From Within | 07:56 Tools | |
17835076 | Play | Dizbirdmonkbudmax (A Tribute) | 15:45 Tools | |
17835043 | Play | Positrain | 03:54 Tools | |
17835080 | Play | Inner Lights | 03:59 Tools | |
17834981 | Play | Family Talk | 13:45 Tools | |
56403096 | Play | Junction | 04:12 Tools | |
17835058 | Play | SoundDance Part 1 | 10:42 Tools | |
17834970 | Play | Sightsong | 06:22 Tools | |
17835088 | Play | Scrape | 10:02 Tools | |
17834948 | Play | Dark Sestina | 08:31 Tools | |
17834999 | Play | DizBirdMonkBudMax | 15:48 Tools | |
17835060 | Play | Down at Peppers | 12:34 Tools | |
17835028 | Play | Steamin'up The Road | 07:14 Tools | |
56403091 | Play | Streaming | 15:45 Tools | |
17835068 | Play | Personal Conversations | 07:49 Tools | |
56403092 | Play | Bound | 09:42 Tools | |
56403093 | Play | Dramaturns | 09:42 Tools | |
17835087 | Play | Mergertone | 17:15 Tools | |
17835031 | Play | Journey Home as Seen Through The Fairness of Life | 06:52 Tools | |
17835079 | Play | Two Over One | 05:32 Tools | |
17835089 | Play | Familytalk | 13:47 Tools | |
56403102 | Play | Ja Do Thu (Dedicated to Jarman, Douglas & Thurman) | 06:52 Tools | |
17834995 | Play | Focus, ThruTime…Time→ Part 4 | 15:16 Tools | |
17835010 | Play | My Thoughts Are My Future -- Now and Forever | 09:42 Tools | |
56403094 | Play | Ballad | 05:07 Tools | |
17835015 | Play | Bright Canto | 12:05 Tools | |
56403095 | Play | Soundhear | 13:47 Tools | |
17835023 | Play | The Price of The Ticket | 13:54 Tools | |
17835002 | Play | SoundDance Part 4 | 17:55 Tools | |
17835073 | Play | Blues for M | 03:49 Tools | |
56403108 | Play | Romu | 08:45 Tools | |
56403104 | Play | Bud P. (Dedicated To Bud Powell) | 05:21 Tools | |
56403099 | Play | Blessed Be The Heavens at 12 (9-7-5-3-1) | 12:40 Tools | |
56403098 | Play | Tribute to Julius Hemphill & Don Pullen | 07:49 Tools | |
17835008 | Play | Sightsong / Two Over One | 12:40 Tools | |
17835046 | Play | Unity | 05:17 Tools | |
56403097 | Play | Prism 3 | 07:49 Tools | |
17834994 | Play | How Are You | 04:41 Tools | |
17834976 | Play | J.G. (Dedicated to Jonny Griffin) | 05:39 Tools | |
56403110 | Play | Focus One Think All | 10:40 Tools | |
56403100 | Play | Track #2 | 05:17 Tools | |
87629714 | Play | Young At Hart | 08:45 Tools | |
56403101 | Play | Track #1 | 06:52 Tools | |
56403107 | Play | Present And Future /Sound Image Of The Past | 08:45 Tools | |
56403106 | Play | Roots of Blue | 08:10 Tools | |
17835000 | Play | Bud P | 07:53 Tools | |
17835098 | Play | My Thoughts are My Future Now and Forever | 09:42 Tools | |
17835006 | Play | Ja Do Thu | 08:18 Tools | |
17835021 | Play | Focus Thrutime Time Part 3 | 05:59 Tools | |
17835091 | Play | Sound Dance Part 3 | 05:21 Tools | |
56403109 | Play | Bloodline (Dedicated to Fletcher Henderson-Don Redman-Benny Carter) | 10:40 Tools | |
56403103 | Play | Track #3 | 05:21 Tools | |
87629717 | Play | The Heart Is Love And I Am | 10:40 Tools | |
17835020 | Play | Focus Thrutime Time Part 1 | 08:10 Tools | |
87629711 | Play | Untitled | 08:10 Tools | |
56403105 | Play | Focus, ThruTimeTime Part 3 | 08:10 Tools | |
87629712 | Play | Voice Song | 08:10 Tools | |
17835004 | Play | Focus Thrutime Time Part 2 | 08:45 Tools | |
89530985 | Play | Etudes Op. 1, No. 1 | 08:45 Tools | |
87629713 | Play | My Thoughts Are My Future, Now And Forever | 08:45 Tools | |
87629715 | Play | String Song | 08:45 Tools | |
17835044 | Play | Baritone Voice and String Quartett | 10:40 Tools | |
87629716 | Play | Part 4 | 10:40 Tools | |
87629718 | Play | Mama And Daddy (album) | 10:40 Tools | |
87629719 | Play | Sound Dance Part 2 | 10:40 Tools | |
87629720 | Play | 1 And 4 Plus 2 And 7 / March of the Transients | 10:40 Tools | |
17835056 | Play | Sound Dance Part 1 | 10:43 Tools | |
17835036 | Play | Muhal Richard Abrams | 01:42 Tools |
Muhal Richard Abrams (Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American free jazz pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist and educator. Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago. By 1946, he enrolled in music classes at Roosevelt University, but "I didn't get too much out of that, because it wasn't what I was hearing in the street". He then decided to study independently: "I've always had a natural ability to study and analyze things. I used that ability, not even knowing what it was (it was just a feeling) and started to read books." The books of Joseph Schillinger were very influential in Abrams' development. In Abrams' words: From there, I acquired a small spinet piano and started to teach myself how to play the instrument and read the notes – or, first of all, what key the music was in. It took time and a lot of sweat. But I analyzed it and before long I was playing with the musicians on the scene. I listened to Art Tatum, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and many others and concentrated on Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson for composition. Later I got scores and studied more extensive things that take place in classical composition and started to practice classical pieces on the piano. Abrams' first gigs were playing the blues, R&B, and hard bop circuit in Chicago and working as a sideman with everyone from Dexter Gordon and Max Roach to Ruth Brown and Woody Shaw. In 1950 he began writing arrangements for the King Fleming Band, and in 1955 played in the hard-bop band Modern Jazz Two + Three, with tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris. After this group folded he kept a low profile until he organized the Experimental Band in 1962, a contrast to his earlier hard bop venture in its use of free jazz concepts. This band, with its fluctuating lineup, evolved into the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), emerging in May 1965 with Abrams as its president. Rather than playing in smoky night clubs, AACM members often rented out theaters and lofts where they could perform for attentive and open-minded audiences. The album Levels and Degrees of Light (1967) was the landmark first recording under Abrams' leadership. On this set, Abrams was joined by the saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Maurice McIntyre, vibraphonist Gordon Emmanuel, violinist Leroy Jenkins, bassists Leonard Jones and Charles Clark, and vocalist Penelope Taylor. Abrams also played with saxophonists Eddie Harris, Gordon, and other more bop-oriented musicians during this era. Abrams moved to New York permanently in 1977 where he was involved in the local Loft Jazz scene. In 1983, he established the New York chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. In the 1970s, Abrams composed for symphony orchestras, string quartets, solo piano, voice, and big bands in addition to making a series of larger ensemble recordings that included harp and accordion. He is a widely influential artist, having played sides for many musicians early in his career, releasing important recordings as a leader, and writing classical works such as his "String Quartet No. 2", which was performed by the Kronos Quartet, on November 22, 1985, at the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. He has recorded extensively under his own name (frequently on the Black Saint label) and as a sideman on others' records. Notably regarding the latter he has recorded with Anthony Braxton Duets 1976 on Arista Records, Marion Brown and Chico Freeman. He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his orchestra, sextet, quartet, duo and as a solo pianist. His musical affiliations is a "who's who" of the jazz world, including Roach, Gordon, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Art Farmer, Sonny Stitt, Braxton, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Harris and many others. In 1990 Abrams won the Jazzpar Prize, an annual Danish prize within jazz. Abrams received a 1997 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. In May 2009 the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Abrams would be one of the recipients of the 2010 NEA Jazz Masters Award. In June 2010, Abrams was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by New York City's premier jazz festival, known as the Vision Festival. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.