''Capricorn Rising'' is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen featuring saxophonist Sam Rivers. It was recorded in 1975 for the Italian

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label.Black Saint Records discography
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Reception

The

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review awarded the album 4½ stars.Allmusic Review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Don Pullen except as indicated'' # "Break Out" (Sam Rivers) - 12:35 # "Capricorn Rising" - 11:48 # "Joycie Girl" - 6:36 # "Fall Out" (Rivers) - 15:04 **Recorded at Generation Sound Studio in New York City on October 16 & 17, 1975

Personnel

* Don Pullen -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Sam Rivers -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

* Alex Blake -

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* Bobby Battle -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...

References

{{Authority control Black Saint/Soul Note albums Don Pullen albums 1975 albums