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I Hear a Symphony (Hank Crawford album)

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Released
  
1975

Artist
  
Hank Crawford

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
33:15

Release date
  
1975

Label
  
Legacy Recordings

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Recorded
  
June and July 1975 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ

I Hear a Symphony(1975)
  
Hank Crawford's Back(1976)

Similar
  
Hank Crawford albums, Jazz albums

Hank crawford i hear a symphony


I Hear a Symphony is the sixteenth album led by saxophonist Hank Crawford and his fifth released on the Kudu label in 1973.

Contents

Hank crawford i hear a symphony


Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars and its review by Thom Jurek states, "this set is a cooker. Certainly the production is a bit dated, but the funky-butt moves in Crawford's soulful playing and the tough riffing of Gale more than transcend it".

Track listing

  1. "I Hear a Symphony" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) - 4:46
  2. "Madison (Spirit, The Power)" (David Matthews) - 3:55
  3. "Hang it on the Ceiling" (Matthews) - 4:13
  4. "The Stripper" (David Rose) - 4:03
  5. "Sugar Free" (Hank Crawford) - 4:42
  6. "Love Won't Let Me Wait" (Vinnie Barrett, Bobby Eli) - 4:03
  7. "I'll Move You No Mountain" (Jerry Ragovoy, Aaron Schroeder) - 4:08
  8. "Baby! This Love I Have" (Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Leon Ware) - 3:38

Personnel

  • Hank Crawford - alto saxophone
  • Jon Faddis, John Frosk, Robert Millikan, Alan Rubin - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Barry Rogers, Fred Wesley - trombone
  • Paul Faulise, Tony Studd, Dave Taylor - bass trombone
  • Leon Pendarvis - electric piano
  • Eric Gale - guitar
  • Gary King - bass
  • Steve Gadd - drums
  • Ralph MacDonald - percussion
  • Idris Muhammad - shaker, tambourine
  • Patti Austin - lead vocals
  • Hilda Harris, Deborah McDuffie, Maeretha Stewart - vocals
  • Harry Cykman, Lewis Eley, Max Ellen, Paul Gershman, Emanuel Green, Harold Kohon, Charles Libove, Joe Malin, David Nadien, John Pintavalle, Raoul Poliakin, Max Pollikoff, Richard Sortomme - violin
  • Seymour Barab, Charles McCracken, Alan Shulman - cello
  • David Matthews - arranger

    • Songs

    1I Hear a Symphony4:45
    2Madison (Spirit - the Power)3:55
    3Hang It On the Ceiling4:13

    References

    I Hear a Symphony (Hank Crawford album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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