To Love and Be Loved, by Harold Mabern

To Love and Be Loved

by Harold Mabern

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CD in 8-panel digipak with liner notes by David R. Adler and photography by Jimmy Katz and Gulnara Khamatova. Also includes digital download of entire album.

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1.	To Love and Be Loved 05:38	info	buy track
2.	If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You 05:22	info	buy track
3.	The Gigolo 06:10	info	buy track
4.	Inner Glimpse 05:30	info	buy track
5.	My Funny Valentine 06:44	info	buy track
6.	The Iron Man 09:12	info	buy track
7.	So What 07:14	info	buy track
8.	I Get a Kick Out of You 06:57	info	buy track
9.	Dat Dere (solo piano) 05:29	info	buy track
10.	Hittin' the Jug 06:24	info	buy track

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On TO LOVE AND BE LOVED, Harold Mabern is joined by a multigenerational band that brings together one of his legendary peers with some of his most acclaimed former students—all of whom play with the same love and respect that Mabern has shared with them over the years.

TO LOVE AND BE LOVED reunites Mabern with drumming legend Jimmy Cobb. They first worked together in Miles Davis's band during a brief but memorable stint in 1963! The rhythm section is completed by the impeccably swinging bassist Nat Reeves, while the frontline features Mabern's prize student and frequent collaborator Eric Alexander on
tenor saxophone and, on three tracks, another Mabern protégé, trumpeter Freddie Hendrix. Master percussionist Cyro Baptista completes the line-up with a performance on the opening track.

In discussing his reimaging of classic tunes and the inspiration for the album, Mabern quotes an unlikely mentor for a jazz musician: Albert Einstein. The famed physicist once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there
ever will be to know and understand." Mabern took that message to heart, letting his own imagination run free on TO LOVE AND BE LOVED.

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released August 25, 2017

Harold Mabern - piano
Eric Alexander - tenor saxophone
Nat Reeves - bass
Jimmy Cobb - drums
Freddie Hendrix - trumpet (tracks 3, 4 & 7)
Cyro Baptista - percussion (track 1)

Recorded Live April 17, 2017
at Sear Sound Studio C, NYC

Produced by Paul Stache
Associate Producer: Damon Smith
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Chris Allen
Studio Assistant: Jeff CItron
Cover photography by Jimmy Katz
Inside photography by Gulnara Khamatova
Liner Notes by David R. Adler
Design by Damon Smith & Paul Stache

Eric Alexander appears courtesy of High Note Records

Executive Producers: Frank Christopher & Paul Stache

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Harold Mabern New York, New York

Harold Mabern was a dazzlingly skilled pianist and a force of nature at the keyboard. NPR described him as "a pianist of percussive fire and boundless soul, with a language that pulled from hard bop, post-bop, Memphis soul and the blues," For over half a century on the scene, he played and recorded with J.J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, George Coleman. Miles Davis, and more. ... more

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