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Don Preston
Transformation
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque
2. Walking BatterieWomen
3. Inner Blues (Not A Blues)
4. I Love You
5. The Lind Sonata
6. Ode To The Flower Maiden
7. The Donkey
8. Transformation
9. The Prehistoric Eons

CD Details

All Artists: Don Preston
Title: Transformation
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cryptogramophone
Original Release Date: 1/1/2001
Re-Release Date: 3/6/2001
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 671860010722

Synopsis

Album Description

This new CD by the Don Preston Trio features pianist Preston, bassist Joel Hamilton and drummer Alex Cline presenting inventive treatments of music by Frank Zappa, Carla Bley, John Carter, Cole Porter, and Preston himself. Transformation presents a survey Preston's multifarious career: his stint as keyboardist with Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, his association with pianist-composer Carla Bley, his synthesizer work for the late distinguished composer-clarinetist John Carter as well as his own reputation as a writer of powerful though twisted music.

CD Reviews

Don Preston is still a Mother

Etan Rosenbloom | Los Angeles | 10/05/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Don Preston may have made a name through his work with Frank Zappa, but the man is also a fine jazz pianist with excellent taste in sidemen. Preston's acoustic trio with bassist Joel Hamilton and drummer Alex Cline covers a lot of ground, from the spiky post-bop of Zappa favorite "The Eric Dolphy Memorial arbeque" and introspective balladry of "Inner Blues (not a blues)" to expert free improv (Transformation) and even the contemporary classical feel of Preston's own "The Lind Sonata." Throughout, Preston, Hamilton and Cline display their customary chops, but they also possess a remarkably intuitive ability to interact with one another, most noticeable in the more out passages. The three deconstruct each of these pieces, examine their parts, and then put 'em back together again. Transformation, indeed."

Really good

COMPUTERJAZZMAN | Cliffside Park, New Jersey United States | 08/10/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I saw Don Preston perform at a free concert at the L.A., County Museum of
Art two years ago. He was great. This CD shows his unusual diversity, he plays Zappa Music with a Thelonius Monk touch."