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Spirit Sensitive

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Released
  
1979

Length
  
36:58

Artist
  
Chico Freeman

Producer
  
India Navigation

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
Oct 1978-Jan 1979

Spirit Sensitive (1979)
  
No Time Left (1979)

Release date
  
1979

Label
  
India Navigation

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Similar
  
Chico Freeman albums, Jazz albums

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Spirit Sensitive is a hard-bop jazz album by Chico Freeman on India Navigation Records IN 1045.

Contents

The LP, in contrast to many of his more avant-garde recordings of the same time frame, is a set that consists of jazz standards.

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Criticism

Jazz critic Scott Yanow wrote: “…a change of pace for Freeman, for it features the usually adventurous tenor (who doubles on soprano) mostly playing warm versions of standards.” The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide called it an "exquisite ballad album... where Freeman blows standards with more invention and conviction than most old-timers"

Track listing

  1. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 11:28
  2. "Peace" (Horace Silver)– 7:53
  3. "A Child Is Born" (Thad Jones) – 9:56
  4. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers and Hart) – 11:04
  5. "Close to You Alone" – (Cecil McBee)
  6. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore " – (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell)

Reissues

An audio CD of the album was released on September 5, 1994, by Analogue Productions, with four bonus tracks, two of them written by John Coltrane (“Lonnie’s Lament” and “Wise One”) and a running time of 63:18 – but has since been discontinued. In 1994, there was also a U.S. limited edition audiophile 6-track LP pressed on HQ-180 super vinyl.

Personnel

  • Chico Freeman - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Cecil McBee – bass
  • John Hicks – piano
  • Billy Hart - drums
  • Famoudou Don Moye - drums
  • Production

  • India Navigation
  • Cover and liner photos: Beth Cummins
  • Songs

    1Autumn in New York4:15
    2Peace5:35
    3A Child Is Born7:40

    References

    Spirit Sensitive Wikipedia