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Pastels (album)

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Released
  
1976

Length
  
37:08

Producer
  
Retrac

Genre
  
Hard bop, post-bop

Label
  
MilestoneM-9073

Recorded
  
October 18 & 19, 1976 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA

Pastels is an album by bassist Ron Carter recorded at Fantasy Studios in California in 1976 and released on the Milestone label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2½ stars saying "Some tremendous playing... though the strings get intrusive".

Track listing

All compositions by Ron Carter

  1. "Woolaphant" - 7:58
  2. "Ballad" - 8:45
  3. "One Bass Rag" - 7:28
  4. "Pastels" - 6:21
  5. "12 + 12" - 6:36

Personnel

  • Ron Carter - bass, piccolo bass, arranger
  • Kenny Barron - piano (tracks 1 & 3-5)
  • Hugh McCracken - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica (tracks 1 & 3-5)
  • Harvey Mason - drums (tracks 1 & 3-5)
  • Sanford Allen - concertmaster
  • Virginia Baker, Myra Bucky, Fei-Pang Ching, Ronald Erickson, Daniel Kobialka, Roy Oakley Jr., Nathan Rubin, Emily Van Valkenburgh, Mark Volkert - violin
  • Arthur Bauch, Denis DeCoteau, Daniel Yale - viola
  • Garfield Moore, Kermit Moore, Melinda Ross - cello
  • Don Sebesky - conductor, arranger

    • References

    Pastels (album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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