Live at the Village Vanguard (George Adams & Don Pullen album)

The Allmusic review by Dan Warburton said, "Live at the Village Vanguard finds four extraordinary musicians at the peak of their careers... as a document of how one of the great working units of modern jazz sounded live in one of the music's mythical venues, Live at the Village Vanguard needs some beating." The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars saying, "The Village Vanguard sets are a bit ramshackle (compare the live version of "Thank You Very Much, Mr Monk" with the one on the deleted City Gates) and much of the interest now lies in hearing how much Adams anticipates what David Murray was going to be doing (sambas, spirituals) at the end of the decade."

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Track listing

"The Necessary Blues (Thank You Very Much, Mr Monk)" (Don Pullen) – 13:15
"Solitude" (Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills) – 15:00
"Intentions" (George Adams) – 13:00
"Diane" (Charles Mingus) – 14:30

Recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City on August 19, 1983.

Personnel

References

Don Pullen discography accessed May 18, 2011
Warburton, D. " Adams/Pullen Quartet -Live at the Village Vanguard, Allmusic. Retrieved May 18, 2011
^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) . The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 8. ISBN 978-0-141-02327-4.

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Years listed reflect recording dates not release dates
Albums as leader or co-leader	Paradise Space Shuttle (1979) Sound Suggestions (1979) Hand to Hand (with Dannie Richmond, 1980) Melodic Excursions (1982) Gentleman's Agreement (with Dannie Richmond,1983) More Sightings (with Hannibal, 1984) Nightingale (1988) America (1989) Old Feeling (1991)
Albums with George Adams- Don Pullen Quartet	All That Funk (1979) More Funk (1979) Don't Lose Control (1979) Earth Beams (1980) Life Line (1981) City Gates (1983) Live at the Village Vanguard (1983) Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (1983) Decisions (1984) Live at Montmartre (1985) Breakthrough (1986) Song Everlasting (1987)
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Solo Piano Album (1975) Jazz a Confronto 21 (1975) Five to Go (1975) Capricorn Rising (1975) Healing Force (1976) Tomorrow's Promises (1976 & 1977) Warriors (with Chico Freeman, Fred Hopkins, and Bobby Battle, 1978) Milano Strut (1978) The Magic Triangle (with Joseph Jarman and Don Moye, 1979) Earth Beams (with George Adams, 1980) Life Line (with George Adams, 1981) Melodic Excursions (with George Adams, 1982) City Gates (with George Adams, 1983) Evidence of Things Unseen (1983) Decisions (with George Adams, 1984) The Sixth Sense (1985) Breakthrough (with George Adams, 1986) Song Everlasting (with George Adams, 1987) New Beginnings (1988) Random Thoughts (1990) Kele Mou Bana (1990) Ode to Life (1993) Sacred Common Ground (1995)
Live albums	The Complete Yale Concert, 1966 (with Milford Graves, 1966) Montreux Concert (1977) All That Funk (with George Adams, 1979) More Funk (with George Adams, 1979) Don't Lose Control (with George Adams, 1979) Live at the Village Vanguard (with George Adams, 1983) Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (with George Adams, 1983) Live at Montmartre (with George Adams, 1985) Live...Again: Live at Montreux (1993)
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