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Astral Signal

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Released
  
1975

Astral Signal (1975)
  
Nexus (1975)

Release date
  
1975

Producers
  
Keg Johnson, Jerry Peters

Length
  
40min 34sec

Artist
  
Gene Harris

Label
  
Blue Note Records

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Recorded
  
The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1974

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion, Hard bop

Similar
  
Gene Harris albums, Jazz albums

Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1975 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris.

Contents

Harris covered the Chicago tune "Beginnings" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

  1. "Prelude" (Jerry Peters) - 1:38
  2. "Summer (The First Time)" (Bobby Goldsboro) - 3:32
  3. "Rebato Summer" (Peters) - 0:44
  4. "I Remember Summer" (Peters) - 2:03
  5. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (Sly Stone) - 3:44
  6. "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Peters) - 3:06
  7. "My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
  8. "Green River" (John Fogerty) - 3:01
  9. "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) - 5:50
  10. "Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" (Monk Higgins, Alex Brown) - 1:57
  11. "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
  12. "Love Talkin'" (Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

  • Oscar Brashear - trumpet
  • George Bohanon - trombone, backing vocals
  • Keg Johnson - trombone, backing vocals
  • Sidney Muldrow - flugelhorn
  • Ernie Watts - reeds
  • Jerry Peters - piano, backing vocals
  • Gene Harris - keyboards, lead vocals
  • John Rowin - guitar
  • David T. Walker - guitar
  • Chuck Rainey - bass guitar
  • Harvey Mason - drums
  • Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
  • Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - backing vocals

    • Songs

    1Prelude1:41
    2Summer (The First Time)3:21
    3Rebato Summer0:35

    References

    Astral Signal Wikipedia
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