Tactics (album)

Tactics
Live album by John Abercrombie
Released 1997
Recorded July 13-15, 1996
Genre Jazz
Length 76:23
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
John Abercrombie chronology
Speak of the Devil
(1993)
Tactics
(1997)
Open Land
(1999)

Tactics is a live album by guitarist John Abercrombie with organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum recorded in 1996 and released on the ECM label[1]

Reception

In his review on Allmusic, Scott Yanow stated, "Not sounding at all like a typical soul-jazz organ group, these musicians take more advanced improvisations".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3½ stars stating it contains "churning but still delicate Hammond shapes, a rock steady bass, and some of Abercrombie's lightest and most dancing jazz-playing".[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Abercrombie except as indicated

  1. "Sweet Sixteen" - 11:21
  2. "Last Waltz" - 11:14
  3. "Bo Diddy" (Dan Wall) - 11:43
  4. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 10:15
  5. "Chumbida" (Adam Nussbaum) - 5:46
  6. "Dear Rain" - 7:38
  7. "Mr. Magoo" (Wall) - 8:44
  8. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) - 9:42

Personnel

References

  1. ECM discography accessed October 24, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 24, 2011
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-141-02327-4.
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