Awakening (Sonny Fortune album)

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Released 1975 Producer Ed Michel Artist Sonny Fortune Label A&M Records		Length 40:33 Awakening(1975) Waves of Dreams(1976) Release date 1975

Recorded August 28, 1975 and September 8–9, 1975 Studio Plaza Sound Studios and Sound Ideas, New York City Genres Hard bop, Modal jazz, Straight-ahead jazz Similar Waves of Dreams, Long Before Our Mothers, In The Spirit Of John Colt, Alto Memories, In Europe

Awakening is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1975 and released on the Horizon label.

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Reception

In The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said while Awakening featured nothing innovative, it did showcase Fortune's knack for "great synthesis", including "shades of hard bop and late-'50s Miles in a more modal setting, so lyrical and tough-minded that the 12-minute flute-and-congas thing (the title cut, wouldn't you know) becomes quite credible, even listenable." Vincent Thomas for AllMusic calls the album "an adequate set of mostly straight-ahead jazz, which sets it apart from many of his fusion-venturing peers of the '70s".

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Fortune except where noted.

"Triple Threat" (Rodgers Grant) - 10:27
"Nommo" (Jymie Merritt) - 9:38
"Sunshower" (Kenny Barron) - 5:14
"For Duke and Cannon" - 2:58
"Awakening" - 12:16

Personnel

Sonny Fortune - alto saxophone, flute, cowbell, chimes, claves, shaker, percussion

Charles Sullivan - trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 1 & 5)

Kenny Barron - piano, electric piano (tracks 1-3 & 5)

John Hicks - piano (track 4)

Wayne Dockery (track 1 & 3-5), Reggie Workman (track 2) - bass

Billy Hart (tracks 1-3 & 5), Chip Lyle (track 4) - drums

Angel Allende - congas, percussion (tracks 2 & 5)

Songs

1Triple Threat10:27
2Nommo9:38
3Sunshower5:14

References

Awakening (Sonny Fortune album) Wikipedia

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