| Random Thoughts | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Don Pullen |
| Cover: | Random Thoughts (Don Pullen album).jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Recorded: | March 23, 1990 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 52:56 |
| Label: | Blue Note |
| Producer: | Michael Cuscuna |
| Chronology: | Don Pullen |
| Prev Title: | New York Duets |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Kele Mou Bana |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Random Thoughts is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen, recorded in 1990 for the Blue Note label.[1]
The Austin American-Statesman wrote that "Pullen's characteristic linear logic method of soloing keeps even the most experimental musical excursions in line."[2]
The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated: "As bent upon pianistic mayhem as Don Pullen often seemed, this was one of his more user-friendly discs, despite having only a bass and drums between himself and tender-eared listeners. Quite often, Pullen starts a piece as if it were a conventional piano trio number, but before long, he's piling up his trademark keyboard-shuffling glissandos, playing the instrument as if it was a big, glittering, percussive crashing board. Yet everything always swings.. Pullen manages to make even fearsome things seem approachable."[3]
All compositions by Don Pullen