Tactics (album)

Tactics is a live album by jazz guitarist John Abercrombie over three days in July 1996 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features organist Dan Wall and drummer Adam Nussbaum.

Reception
Scott Yanow of AllMusic writes: "Not sounding at all like a typical soul-jazz organ group, these musicians take more advanced improvisations."

The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave the album 3½ stars, stating it contains "churning but still delicate Hammond shapes, a rock steady bass, and some of Abercrombie's lightest and most dancing jazz-playing."

Track listing
All compositions by John Abercrombie except as indicated
 * 1) "Sweet Sixteen" – 11:21
 * 2) "Last Waltz" – 11:14
 * 3) "Bo Diddy" (Wall) – 11:43
 * 4) "You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 10:15
 * 5) "Chumbida" (Nussbaum) – 5:46
 * 6) "Dear Rain" – 7:38
 * 7) "Mr. Magoo" (Wall) – 8:44
 * 8) "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) – 9:42

Personnel

 * John Abercrombie – guitar
 * Dan Wall – Hammond organ
 * Adam Nussbaum – drums