Tactics
Live album by
John Abercrombie/Dan Wall/Adam Nussbaum
Released1997
RecordedJuly 13–15, 1996 (1996-07-13 – 1996-07-15)
VenueVisiones
New York City
GenreJazz
Length76:23
LabelECM
ECM 1623
ProducerManfred Eicher
John Abercrombie chronology
Speak of the Devil
(1994)		 Tactics
(1997)		 Open Land
(1999)

Tactics is a live album by jazz guitarist John Abercrombie over three days in July 1996 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum.[1]

Reception

Scott Yanow of AllMusic writes: "Not sounding at all like a typical soul-jazz organ group, these musicians take more advanced improvisations."[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album 3½ stars, stating it contains "churning but still delicate Hammond shapes, a rock steady bass, and some of Abercrombie's lightest and most dancing jazz-playing."[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Track listing

All compositions by John Abercrombie except as indicated

  1. "Sweet Sixteen" – 11:21
  2. "Last Waltz" – 11:14
  3. "Bo Diddy" (Wall) – 11:43
  4. "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 10:15
  5. "Chumbida" (Nussbaum) – 5:46
  6. "Dear Rain" – 7:38
  7. "Mr. Magoo" (Wall) – 8:44
  8. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 9:42

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ ECM discography accessed October 24, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Allmusic Review accessed October 24, 2011
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2006) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 3. ISBN 978-0-141-02327-4.
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