Melvin admits picking up this LP only because it looked soooo faux. Apparently, in 1983 it was considered a good marketing using Dutch bodybuilding champ Marie-Jose van der Laan to promote a perfectly respectable bop record. Do I love the eighties!
Chicago born saxophonist and flutist Joseph Carl Firrantello (1937-1986), aka Joe Farrell, recorded with Charlie Mingus, Art Pepper and George Benson and featured in the original line-up of Chick Corea's Return to Forever. At the end of his life and - so I read - beat up by a rather nasty drug habit, he met drummer Louis Hayes and Dutchmen Rob van den Broeck (p) and Harry Emmery (d) in Studio 44 (Monster, Holland) to blow out some seriously tight tunes regardless.
The title track is my favourite, but each of the other 4 listings would equally justify the transfer from Melvin's section for Cover Kittens to the Jazz department. I checked out Marie-Jose: she's a career coach now, also giving workshops 'Dress for Success'. Sweet!
The title track is my favourite, but each of the other 4 listings would equally justify the transfer from Melvin's section for Cover Kittens to the Jazz department. I checked out Marie-Jose: she's a career coach now, also giving workshops 'Dress for Success'. Sweet!
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