Time: 39:08
Size: 89.6 MB
Styles: Soul/Jazz/Funk
Year: 1969/2015
Art: Front
[ 6:43] 1. Who's Making Love
[ 7:52] 2. Turtle Walk
[ 4:53] 3. Bonnie
[10:41] 4. Hot Dog
[ 8:57] 5. It's Your Thing
Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson; Drums – Leo Morris; Guitar – Melvin Sparks; Organ – Charles Earland; Trumpet – Ed Williams. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 25, 1969.
The soul-jazz format provides a most satisfying canvas for Donaldson’s distinctive soaring, blues-inflected runs. Eagle-eyed readers will note in the pictures Lou has an effects box strapped to his chest – so he can add reverb or whatever on the fly to his electronic alto. 1969. Electronic instruments were beginning to take hold.
Earland eschews JS fireworks for rhythmic propulsion, with only occasional assaults on the upper register. When he stretches out, long ascending and descending arpeggios which wouldn’t be out of place in any late ’60s prog-rock band, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman, music of its time. Melvyn Sparks neat linear guitar runs serve up a Grant Green tribute act, perfect in context. Together, the ensemble delivers a cracking ten minute floor filler, or, on specialist orthopaedic advice, sit out for a finger-poppin’ session on the sofa. ~https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com
The soul-jazz format provides a most satisfying canvas for Donaldson’s distinctive soaring, blues-inflected runs. Eagle-eyed readers will note in the pictures Lou has an effects box strapped to his chest – so he can add reverb or whatever on the fly to his electronic alto. 1969. Electronic instruments were beginning to take hold.
Earland eschews JS fireworks for rhythmic propulsion, with only occasional assaults on the upper register. When he stretches out, long ascending and descending arpeggios which wouldn’t be out of place in any late ’60s prog-rock band, Jon Lord, Keith Emerson or Rick Wakeman, music of its time. Melvyn Sparks neat linear guitar runs serve up a Grant Green tribute act, perfect in context. Together, the ensemble delivers a cracking ten minute floor filler, or, on specialist orthopaedic advice, sit out for a finger-poppin’ session on the sofa. ~https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com
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