I have found myself listening to more and
more jazz and jazz-fusion in recent months. I have blown hot on jazz more than
once before in my life, so my desire for it may wane again but right now I can’t
see that happening this time.
This renewed interest has been partly fuelled
by some great albums picked up in charity shops and car boots this year. Here’s a case in point.
Caldera were a short lived group, active in
the latter half of the Seventies, recording four albums.
The album I picked up earlier this year, “blind”,
was their third “Time And Chance”. Their sound certainly carries influences
from Return To Forever and Weather Report (who also found their way into my
collection this year), with a strong Latin edge. Also, one track on this album –
“Shanti” - could very easily have appeared on an Earth, Wind & Fire album, but
that is no surprise really as Larry Dunn was involved in it. It was probably meant
as the commercial “in” to the album. I’m going to go with a track that
represents the latin tinged jazzier feel that is most prevalent on the album,
the appropriately named “Mosaico”.
I have noticed that the track times on the
label do not match in any instance with those on the cover (the sort of
minutiae that only a true vinyl addict would notice, I guess!) , all I can say
is this one is 7 minutes long or thereabouts and is worth every minute.
Caldera – Mosaico 1978
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