FILE UNDER: JAZZ FUNK / RE-ISSUE BARCODE: 5050580595736
HERB GELLER - AN AMERICAN IN HAMBURG: THE VIEW FROM HERE label: TRAMP (TRCD-9024)

 

 

Tracklist

1. Rhyme and Reason Time ft. Earl Jordan (Vocal)
2. Sudden Senility ft. Mark Murphy (Vocal)
3. The Power of a Smile ft. Mark Murphy (Vocal)
4. Space a La Mode ft. Mark Murphy (Vocal)
5. Title Wave
6. Sudden Senility (Instrumental)
7. Rhyme and Reason Time (Instrumental)
8. The Power of a Smile (Instrumental)
9. Space a La Mode (Instrumental)

 


This record kicks from the very beginning, in a way you would’t expect when looking at the cover: A white man in a brightly glittered suit and hat holding his alto sax. A posture somewhere between a down-and-out tv series cop and James Last. If you open the fold out cover the misleading signals continue: A b/w picture of an intellectual (the same man) and his flute; this might fit really well for Rachmaninoff!

Rob Franken on electric piano, Phillip Catherine on guitar, Alex Riel on drums.