Cedar Walton – Firm Roots
Muse Records – MR 5059, 1976
A1 Firm Roots 7:24
A2 Shoulders 7:16
A3 One For Amos 6:47
B1 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 6:58
B2 I'm Not So Sure 7:53
B3 Voices Deep Within Me 8:34
Bass – Sam Jones
Design, Illustration – Mark Kaplan (3)
Drums – Louis Hayes
Liner Notes – Doug Ramsey
Piano, Electric Piano, Producer – Cedar Walton
Recorded live at the Colony East Inn, Rochester, N.Y. April 1974
The performances on this album were culled from a three week stay at The Saratoga Room of the Colony East Inn in Rochester New York, how they managed to book this trio for such a long stay is anybody's guess. It seems like a bit of false advertizing to have that Grand Piano featured on the cover though. There was indeed one in the room but for some reason Cedar only plays it for two tunes and spends the rest of the time on a Fender Rhodes. Granted it was certainly in fashion in 1974 but why you would choose it over a perfectly good piano already in the same room is beyond me. Nonetheless this trio was rock solid and incapable of bad music so the music is quite good despite the plugged in keys.
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ReplyDeleteMost of these tunes were recorded by this trio in 4tet with Clifford Jordan during the same time period - so anyone who is a fan of Glass Bead Games or the other album named "Firm Roots" (under Clifford's name) should check out this recording.
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thanks for this one!!
ReplyDeletei like this so much, thank you so much....
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to hearing this one - Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWow! Thank you so much! I didn't know about this record - I thought I had just about every one of Cedar's!!!! JPH
ReplyDeleteFor some strange reason Embed link was empty right now; I hope it will fix later. This is a wonderful album, thank you!
ReplyDeleteWow! It's ok, now! Thank you once more, KC!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the Cedar Walton post.
Thanks so much for this great trio recording!
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