Music

The Blues and the Abstract Truth 1961

By Oliver Nelson

  • jazz, hard bop
  • 37 min
  • 6 tracks
  • impulse!

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American composer and jazz saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961 for the Impulse! label. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album and features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes.

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Grave, character-led, spare and intimate.

  • gravecomic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • sparerichly built
  • intimateepic
  • classical in formformally daring

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