Here
is another random pull from a "recents" box in the record
room. (In fact I just looked up when I bought this and can't believe
it was over two years ago now, so the box is in fact a "not so recents").
It
was the first release on the Outstanding label, which was relatively
short lived and primarily seemed to be a vehicle for one Paul Thatcher Smith (P.T.S.). Paul had been around on the jazz scene for
a long time by the time this record was released (1972 apparently,
although some people seem to date it to 1968 which actually I think
kind of fits better with the feel of this record and other early
releases on the label that I have heard.). Paul worked with a number
of great names on the jazz scene including being a conductor and
pianist with Ella Fitzgerald's band for many years starting in 1956.
I
love the sleeve that this record comes in. It's been around the block
a bit, and has some tales to tell now lost in the mists of time. A
good old fashioned blue/green light card sleeve, faded around the
edges, tape residue along the bottom and somebody's catalog system
number stamped on it, in a really vintage looking typeface. $10 price
scrawled on it and “Rock – Inst'l” as a description, which is
a somewhat misleading as it sits more comfortably in the jazz/funk
genre I think. Of course the sleeve might have been married to a
different record originally and it does scream early 60s or even 50s
to me. Could be 1968 I suppose, but surely not as late as 1972.
This
is a nice laid back instrumental for a Sunday evening. Something my dad might have appreciated. If he was still alive we would have been celebrating his 101st birthday today.
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