Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen
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{{Infobox album
| name = Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen
| type = studio
| artist = David Murray
| cover = Long Goodbye A Tribute to Don Pullen.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1998
| recorded = 30 September – 1 October 1996
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 55:36
| label = DIW
| producer = Kazunori Sugiyama
| prev_title = Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Fo Deuk Revue
| next_year = 1997
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}[http://allmusic.com/album/r333705 AllMusic Review] accessed August 10, 2011
}}
Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen is an album by David Murray, released on the Japanese DIW label.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-murray-mn0000182855/biography|title=David Murray Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xn48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177|title=Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century|first=Gary|last=Giddins|date=October 14, 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-530449-7 |via=Google Books}} Recorded in 1996 and released in 1998, the album contains performances by Murray, pianist D.D. Jackson, bassist Santi Debriano, and drummer J. T. Lewis, in tribute to Don Pullen. The liner notes were penned by Jackson.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYzb_q_xKDgC&pg=PA187|title=Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia|first=Todd S.|last=Jenkins|date=October 14, 2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313333149 |via=Google Books}}
Critical reception
The Village Voice wrote that "despite some rousing passages, this is becalming and elegiac, a fitting companion to Pullen’s own Ode to Life."{{Cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2006/05/30/the-david-murray-guide/|title=The David Murray Guide|date=May 30, 2006|website=The Village Voice}}
Track listing
All compositions by Don Pullen except where noted.
- "Gratitude" – 7:52
- "Resting on the Road" – 10:29
- "Out of a Storm" (Jackson) – 8:38
- "El Matador" – 4:32
- "Easy Alice" (Jackson) – 8:10
- "Long Goodbye" (Morris) – 8:00
- "Common Ground" – 7:54
Personnel
- David Murray – tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
- D. D. Jackson – piano
- Santi Debriano – bass
- J. T. Lewis – drums