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Electrifying Track: Cathexis

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Marc Myers
Aug 24, 2018
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In February 1964, pianist Denny Zeitlin recorded Cathexis, his first leadership album for Columbia. Denny was joined by Cecil McBee on bass and Freddie Waits on drum. The title track is a word found in psychoanalysis that means an acute amount of psychic energy directed toward a person or thing. At the time of the album's recording, Denny was studying m…

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