''Change a Pace'' is an album led by pianist

Duke Jordan Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan (April 1, 1922 – August 8, 2006) was an American jazz pianist. Biography Jordan was born in New York and raised in Brooklyn where he attended Boys High School. An imaginative and gifted pianist, Jordan was a regul ...

recorded in 1979 in Denmark and released on the Danish

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label in 1980.SteepleChase Records discography
accessed March 24, 2015

Reception

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awarded the album 2½ stars with a review by Ken Dryden stating "While none of Duke Jordan's compositions on this date ever became as well known as his "Jordu," "Flight to Jordan," or "No Problem," this session is warmly recommended".

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Jordan. # "Change a Pace" - 5:46 # "I Thought You'd Call Today" - 5:42 # "Double Scotch" - 7:06 # "Miss Kissed" - 5:24 # "Diamond Stud" - 5:46 # "It's Hard to Know" - 7:18 # "Anything Can Happen" - 6:45 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Deacon's Blues" - 4:57 Bonus track on CD reissue # "My Queen Is Home to Stay" - 2:47 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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 ...

Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (; 27 May 1946 – 19 April 2005), also known by his abbreviated nickname NHØP, was a Danish jazz double bassist. Biography Pedersen was born in Osted, near Roskilde, on the Danish island of Zealand, the son o ...

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Billy Hart Billy Hart (born November 29, 1940) is an American jazz drumming, jazz drummer and educator. He is known internationally for his work with Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" band in the early 1970s, as well as with Shirley Horn, Stan Getz, and Quest (b ...

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References

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