Don Pullen
Born: 1941
Don Pullen developed an extended technique for the
piano and a strikingly individual style, post-bop and
modern, but retaining a strong feeling for the blues. He
produced acknowledged masterworks of jazz in a range
of formats and styles, crossing and mixing genres long
before this became almost commonplace. By chance,
unfortunately for his future commercial success if not for
his musical development, his first contact on arriving on
the New York scene was with the free players of the
1960s, with… Continue