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<i>Blues Forever</i>

Blues Forever

1982 studio album by Muhal Richard Abrams

Blues Forever is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams, released by the Italian label Black Saint in 1982 and featuring performances of seven of Abrams compositions by an eleven-member big band.

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Critical reception

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The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn stated: "Although every arrangement doesn't click, the band successfully romps and stomps through enough cuts to show that the big band sound doesn't just mean "ghost" groups recreating dusty numbers from the 1930s and 1940s."[1] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide called the album "Abrams's crowning achievement".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "a sparkling big-band date with some demanding charts and a vivid sub-current of the blues".[2]

Track listing

  • All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams
  1. "Ancient and Future Reflections" – 6:46
  2. "Du King" (Dedicated to Duke Ellington) – 2:00
  3. "Chambea" – 7:30
  4. "Duet for One World" – 4:53
  5. "Blues Forever" – 9:01
  6. "Cluster for Many Worlds" – 5:02
  7. "Quartet to Quartet" – 7:09

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    Wynn, Ron. "Blues Forever - Muhal Richard Abrams". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. [2]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. [3]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. US: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 4. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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