Label:
Testament Records – T-4402
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: US / Released: 1974
Style:
Contemporary Jazz, Fusion
Recorded and
Mastered At Artisan Sound Recorders, TR&M, 1974.
Mastered
By [Tape-To-Disc Mastering] – Bob McLeod
Producer,
Recorded By – Pete Robinson
Transferred
By [Tape Transfer], Edited By – Pete Robinson, Pete Welding
A1
- Charity
........................................................................... 10:24
(by – Pete Robinson)
A2
- Cumulus ........................................................................
10:27
(by – Pete Robinson)
B1
- Nefertiti And Riot ..........................................................
17:06
(by [Nefertiti] – W. Shorter / by
[Riot] – H. Hancock)
B2
- Yesterdays
....................................................................... 3:57
(by – J. Kern, O. Harbach)
Phil
Woods – saxophone
Pete
Robinson – keyboards, synthesizer
Henry
Franklin – bass
Brian
Moffat – drums, percussion
This
LP finds Woods playing in a very modern fusion-y mode than we are used to
hearing from him. With Pete Robinson on
keys/synths, Henry Franklin on bass, and
Brian Moffatt on percussion. Definitely
one of his more out recordings.
When
Phil Woods returned to the United States after several years in Europe, he
formed a quartet with keyboardist Pete Robinson, bassist Henry Franklin and
drummer Brian Moffatt that utilized electronics. Ten months of rehearsal
resulted in four nights at a club and then little else before the band broke
up. This LP, recorded at rehearsals in 1973, was the group's only album. On a
pair of Robinson's challenging originals, the standard "Yesterdays"
and a medley of Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti" and Herbie Hancock's
"Riot," Woods and Robinson challenge each other. However, the
electronics, surprisingly, do sound a pretty good, and the band was only in
what should have been the early stages of its development; it sometimes sounds
a bit strangely and never really had a chance to mature.
Eh,
that was more time and understanding ... who knows? ...
If
you find it, buy this album!
