''Astral Signal'' is a soul/funk influenced
jazz
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album recorded in 1974 by the
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
keyboard player
Gene Harris.
Harris covered the
Chicago
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Beginnings
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* Beginnings (collection), ''Beginnings'' (collection), a 1988 collection of short stories and poems by Gordon R. Dickson
* Beginnings (Honorverse), ''Beginnings'' (Honorverse), a 2013 collection of short stori ...
" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.
Track listing
#"Prelude" (
Jerry Peters) - 1:38
#"Summer (The First Time)" (
Bobby Goldsboro) - 3:32
#"Rebato Summer" (Peters) - 0:44
#"I Remember Summer" (Peters) - 2:03
#"Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (
Sly Stone) - 3:44
#"Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Peters) - 3:06
#"My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
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Canada
*Green River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Lillooet River
*Green River, a tributary of the Saint John River, also known by its French name of Rivière Verte
*Green River (Ontario), a tributary of ...
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John Fogerty
John Cameron Fogerty (born May 28, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty
Thomas Richard Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was an American mu ...
) - 3:01
#"
Beginnings
Beginnings may refer to:
Literature
* Beginnings (collection), ''Beginnings'' (collection), a 1988 collection of short stories and poems by Gordon R. Dickson
* Beginnings (Honorverse), ''Beginnings'' (Honorverse), a 2013 collection of short stori ...
" (
Robert Lamm) - 5:50
#"Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" (
Monk Higgins
Milton Bland (October 3, 1930 – July 3, 1986) better known as Monk Higgins, was an American musician and saxophonist who was born in Menifee, Arkansas.
Biography
Higgins's biggest hits were the instrumental tracks "Who Dun It" (which reached # ...
, Alex Brown) - 1:57
#"Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
#"Love Talkin'" (Peters) - 4:47
Personnel
*
Gene Harris -
keyboards
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* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
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,
lead vocals
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*
Oscar Brashear
Oscar Brashear (born August 18, 1944) is an American jazz trumpetertrumpet
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*
George Bohanon -
trombone
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,
backing vocals
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*
Keg Johnson
Frederic Homer Johnson (November 19, 1908 – November 8, 1967), known professionally as Keg Johnson, was an American jazz trombonist.
Early life
He was born in Dallas, Texas. His father was a choir director there and also worked at a local ...
- trombone, backing vocals
*Sidney Muldrow -
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
*
Ernie Watts
Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...
-
reeds
*
Jerry Peters -
piano
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, backing vocals
*John Rowin -
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
*
David T. Walker
David T. Walker (born June 25, 1941) is an American guitarist, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued fifteen albums in his own name.
Career
David T. Walker was born to ...
- guitar
*
Chuck Rainey
Charles Walter Rainey III (born June 17, 1940) is an American bass guitarist who has performed and recorded with many well-known acts, including Aretha Franklin, Steely Dan, and Quincy Jones. Rainey is credited for playing bass on more than 1,00 ...
-
bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
*
Harvey Mason
Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay.
Mason, who attended Berklee in the 1960s, received an Honorary Doctorate at Berklee's 2015 Commencement Ceremony for ...
-
drums
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*Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
*Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters,
Oren Waters - backing vocals
References
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Gene Harris albums
1975 albums
Blue Note Records albums
Albums produced by Jerry Peters
Jazz-funk albums