Calvin Keys Proceed With Caution (LP)

(Real Gone) 6 tracks, série de rééditions Black Jazz remasterisées avec des notes de pochette et une interview de l'artiste.

Des sons sublimes sur le Balck Jazz 1974 du guitariste de la Bay Area

Bay Area jazz guitar legend Calvin Keys released his first solo album, Shawn-Neeq, in 1971, which remains one of the Black Jazz label's most popular albums. But that record was only the prelude to 1974's Proceed with Caution; this time the arrangements were more complex, the instrumentation more varied. In short, a quantum leap forward; indeed, as Calvin Pat Thomas recounts in his liner notes for the release, "I began attending the Los Angeles School of Music to study orchestration, and I applied it! And he recruited the band that would fully realize his ambitious musical vision, including legendary drummer Leon 'Ndugu' Chancler, Black Jazz colleagues Henry Franklin on bass and Kirk Lightsey on keyboards, and Charles Owens (Horace Tapscott, Buddy Rich, Terry Callier, John Mayall) on saxophone and flute. Although Proceed with Caution has high collector value, it has never been reissued on vinyl;