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Horace Parlan
You can find hypnosis at a jazz performance once in a while if you’re lucky, and only if the band you’re hearing really knows what it’s doing. From jazz records this happens far less often: it takes a lot of repetition to create that hypnotic feeling, and when musicians are in the studio, they don’t often give themselves the luxurious space needed to repeat and repeat and repeat a phrase, working small variations therein. But Horace Parlan, the pianist, did this regularly on his records. Grant Green, the guitarist, did it a lot too, and so did Booker Ervin, the tenor saxophonist. They were all together on “Up & Down,” one of Mr. Parlan’s best records, from 1961, which has just been issued on CD by Blue Note for the first time in the United States.