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Moondog

Release Date: 07 Oct 1991
Label: ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS
Genre: JAZZ

CAT # OJCCD-1781-25

1. Duet: Queen Elizabeth Whistle & Bamboo Pipe

2. Conversation And Music At 51st St.& 6th Ave. (New York City) 1:38

3. Hardshoe (7/4) Ray Malone 1:13

4. Tugboat Toccata 2:23

5. Autumn 2:06

6. Seven Beat Suite (3 Parts) 2:12

7. Oo Solo (6/4) 1:44

8. Rehersal Of Violetta's 'Barefoot Dance" 2:43

9. Oo Solo (2/4) 1:44

10. Ostrich Feathers Played On Drums

11. Oboe Round 1:04

12. Chant

13. All Is Loneliness

14. Sextet (00) 1:28

15. Fiesta Piano Solo 1:45

16. Moondog Monologue 8:24

17. Up Broadway 5:05

18. Perpetual Motion 1:07

19. Gloving It 1:29

20. Improvisation 3:40

21. Ray Malone Softshoe 3:19

22. Two Quotations In Dialogue

23. 5/8 In Two Shades

24. Moondog's Theme 1:52

25. In A Doorway 5:38

26. Duet 2:25

27. Trimbas In Quarters 1:46

28. Wildwood 2:42

29. Trimbas In Eighths 1:08

30. Organ Rounds 2:06

His given name is Louis Thomas Hardin. He was born in 1916, grew up amidst native Americans in Wyoming, and began his career as a Manhattan street musician during World War II. By the time he began recording for Prestige in the Fifties, Moondog had developed an underground following that is sustained to this day. This CD combines his second and third Prestige albums, and features his explorations of polyrhythms, drones, and inverted sounds--world music from a world of Moondog’s own.

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