''Multidirection'' is the second album by American jazz pianist Kenny Cox featuring performances recorded in 1969 and released on the

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accessed December 6, 2010 The album was reissued as bonus tracks with Cox's first Blue Note album ''Introducing Kenny Cox''.

Reception

The

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review by Brandon Burke awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Multidirection'' has as much in common with Blue Note's mildly avant-garde releases of the early '60s as it does the soul-based output typical of 1969. In this sense, one could compare it to Andrew Hill's ''

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's '' Jacknife'', as soulful yet mildly dissonant hard bop is the order of the day here as well".Burke B
Allmusic Review
accessed December 6, 2010

Track listing

:''All compositions by Kenny Cox except as indicated'' # "Spellbound" - 5:23 # "Snuck In" (Charles Moore) - 6:03 # "Sojourn" - 6:36 # "Multidirection" (Moore) - 9:57 # "What Other One" - 4:58 # "Gravity Point" (Moore) - 5:08 :*Recorded at G.M. Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan on November 26, 1969

Personnel

* Kenny Cox -

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 ...

*Charles Moore -

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Leon Henderson -

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 ...

*Ron Brooks -

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*Danny Spencer -

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References

{{Authority control Blue Note Records albums Kenny Cox albums 1969 albums Albums produced by Francis Wolff