Open Sesame (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & African

Open Sesame (Vinyl LP) Afrobeat & AfricanThe trumpet flugelhorn legend's 1960 album. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on 19th June 1960. Featuring Tina Brooks (tenor sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Sam Jones (bass) and Clifford Jarvis (drums). Features classic self penned pieces such as the title track and Hub's Nub, plus unique takes on the standards But Beautiful, All Or Nothing At All and One Mint Julep. Produced by Blue Note co founder Alfred Lion. The famous

evocative ballad

Drum Message only previously surfaced on a Black Fire CD in 1993

Synthesizers ruled

This meeting of the minds and bands of Afro-funk creator Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and American vibist and R&B/jazz innovator Roy Ayers is a collaboration that shouldn't work on the surface

If dismissive at first

Featuring the tracks Frozen Lakes On Mars and The Barren Lands

it fell readily in line with the Man-Machine

and was able to project an air of honesty

swinging angles was already fully formed for this album

"Digital Love" sounds like the theme to a '70s sitcom as realized by the Buggles

They sound like themselves - those taut rhythmical jabs

making the band the musical equivalent of an equilateral triangle (the strongest shape in physics)