Reception

Track listing

1. "Picasso Suite: Introduction" - 2:30
2. "Picasso Suite: Catalonian Vonz" - 9:27
3. "Picasso Suite: La Vie-The Jazz Life" - 4:38
4. "Picasso Suite: Portrait Of Sax And Yac" - 3:16
5. "Picasso Suite: Airtime For Hawkins" - 4:10
6. "Picasso Suite: When Hawk Meets Pablo" - 12:20
7. "Picasso Suite: Reprise; Catalonian Vonz" - 1:26
8. "Menehune Messages" (Burrell
   Dave Burrell
   Davis Burrell is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.- Biography :...
   
   , Larsson) - 7:43
9. "Chazz" (Morris
   Wilber Morris
   Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
   
   ) - 7:19
10. "Shakill's Warrior" - 9:26

All compositions by David Murrary except as indicated

• Recorded September 1, 2, 9, & 11, 1992, NYC

Personnel

• David Murray
  David Murray (jazz musician)
  David Murray is an American jazz musician. Murray plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.-Biography:...
  
   - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
• Rasul Siddik - trumpet
• Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin
  Hugh Ragin is an American jazz trumpeter.Ragin was raised in Houston and began on trumpet when he was in eighth grade. After playing in the Houston All-City High School Orchestra, which toured the UK, he took his bachelor's in music education at the University of Houston and his master's in trumpet...
  
   - trumpet
• Craig Harris
  Craig S. Harris (trombonist)
  Craig S. Harris is a Jazz trombonist and composer who has been a major figure in the jazz avant-garde movement since his stint with Sun Ra in 1976. Subsequently, Harris has worked with such notable jazz artists as Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Lester Bowie, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Muhal...
  
   - trombone
• James Spaulding - alto saxophone, flute
• Dave Burrell
  Dave Burrell
  Davis Burrell is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.- Biography :...
  
   - piano
• Wilber Morris
  Wilber Morris
  Wilber Morris was an American jazz double bass player and bandleader. He was the brother of the cornetist, composer, and conductor Butch Morris....
  
   - bass
• Tani Tabbal
  Tani Tabbal
  -Biography:By age fourteen Tabbal was playing professionally, performing with Oscar Brown Jr. In his teens he also performed with Phil Cohran and the Sun Ra Arkestra....
  
  - drums