Duet (Muhal Richard Abrams album) explained

Duet
Type:	Album
Artist:	Muhal Richard Abrams
Cover:	Duet (Muhal Richard Abrams album).jpg
Released:	1981
Recorded:	11–12 May 1981
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	44:10
Label:	Black Saint
Chronology:	Muhal Richard Abrams
Prev Title:	Mama and Daddy
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Blues Forever
Next Year:	1982

Duet is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams featuring duet performances with Amina Claudine Myers, released on the Italian Black Saint label in 1981.

Reception

Critical views of the album have been mixed. The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn states: "This was an intense, yet also swinging, enjoyable session, one in which Abrams displayed the mastery of multiple genres that's distinguished his music, and Myers her distinctive mix of secular and spiritual elements".^[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album stars, stating: "Retrospect hasn't changed our view that the two pianists simply get in each other's way".^[2] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide called the album "a surprisingly lyrical and diverse encounter".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams except as indicated

"Transparency of Lobo Lubu" - 9:55
"Miss Amina" - 7:42
"Swang Rag Swang" - 4:30
"Down the Street from the Gene Ammons Public School" - 5:05
"Journey Home as Seen Through the Fairness of Life" - 6:49
"Dance from the East" (Amina Claudine Myers) - 6:00
"One for Peggy" (Abrams, Myers) - 4:09

Recorded May 11 & 12, 1981 at Barigozzi Studio, Milano

Personnel

Muhal Richard Abrams – piano
Amina Claudine Myers – piano

Notes and References

Wynn, R. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r191282|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review] accessed 1 April 2009
Book: Cook, Richard. Richard Cook (journalist). Brian Morton. Brian Morton (Scottish writer). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 1992. 8th. The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 2006. Penguin. London. 978-0-141-02327-4. 5. registration.
Book: Swenson . J. . 1985 . The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . Random House/Rolling Stone . USA . 0-394-72643-X . 4.