title: Random Thoughts (Don Pullen album)
text: # Random Thoughts (Don Pullen album)
  
  Random Thoughts is an album by American jazz pianist Don Pullen, recorded in 1990 for the Blue Note label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  The Austin American-Statesman wrote that "Pullen's characteristic linear logic method of soloing keeps even the most experimental musical excursions in line."
  
  The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated: "As bent upon pianistic mayhem as Don Pullen often seemed, this was one of his more user-friendly discs, despite having only a bass and drums between himself and tender-eared listeners. Quite often, Pullen starts a piece as if it were a conventional piano trio number, but before long, he's piling up his trademark keyboard-shuffling glissandos, playing the instrument as if it was a big, glittering, percussive crashing board. Yet everything always swings.. Pullen manages to make even fearsome things seem approachable."
  
  Professional ratings :
  
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  ## Track listing
  
      All compositions by Don Pullen
  * "Andre's Ups and Downs" – 5:19
  * "Random Thoughts" – 9:05
  * "Indio Gitano" – 9:39
  * "The Dancer" – 5:58
  * "Endangeried Species: African American Youth" – 7:36
  * "626 Fairfax" – 6:40
  * "Ode To Life" – 8:39
  
     * Recorded in New York City on March 23, 1990
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Don Pullen – piano
  * James Genus – bass
  * Lewis Nash – drums
  