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Back Door (album)

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Released
  
1972 (1972)

Length
  
33:22

Recorded
  
3 June – 4 June 1972 (1972-06-04) in London, England

Genre
  
Jazz fusion, progressive rock

Label
  
Blakey (original) Warner Bros. (re-issue)

Back Door (1972)
  
8th Street Nites (1973)

Back Door is the eponymously titled debut studio album of Back Door, released independently in 1972 by Blakey Records. It received wider distribution when it was adopted by Warner Bros. the following year. It introduced the group's virtuoso approach to jazz, funk, soul, blues and hard rock music. In 2005, the album was listed on JazzTimes' top fifty albums released between 1970 and 2005. In 2014 it was re-released on CD, compiled with 8th Street Nites and Another Fine Mess, by BGO Records.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Ron Aspery and Colin Hodgkinson.

Personnel

Adapted from the Back Door liner notes.

Back Door
  • Ron Aspery – saxophone, flute
  • Tony Hicks – drums
  • Colin Hodgkinson – bass guitar
  • References

    Back Door (album) Wikipedia