Billy Harper – Capra Black (Pure Pleasure / Strata East) LP

Product Description

Another two stone cold killer Strata-East deep-Jazz/Spiritual Soul-jazz 70’s masterpieces. Harper’s Capra Black with a vocal choir featuring Eugene McDaniels and Shamek Farrah’s First Impressions, deep Eastern influenced spiritual Jazz at its best.

Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

Capra Black remains one of the seminal recordings of jazz’s black consciousness movement. A profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant-garde as well as the emotional potency of gospel, its focus and assurance belie Billy Harper’s inexperience as a leader. Backed by an all-star supporting unit including trombonist Julian Priester and drummer Billy Cobham, Harper’s tenor summons the brute force and mystical resolve of John Coltrane but transcends its influences to communicate thoughts and feelings both idiosyncratic and universal. This is music of remarkable corporeal substance that somehow expresses the pure language of the soul – Jason Ankeny/AMG

Personnel: Saxophone – Billy Harper
Bass – Reggie Workman
Drums – Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones, Warren Smith
Piano – George Cables
Trombone – Dick Griffin, Julian Priester
Trumpet – Jimmy Owens
Voices – Barbara Grant, Gene McDaniels*, Laveda Johnson, Pat Robinson

Composed, Arranged , Conducted & Produced by Billy Harper

Engineered by Orville O’Brien

FORMAT: 180 gram LP Pallas vinyl with standard sleeve

Tracklist:

Side A: 1. Capra Black 2. Sir Galahad 3. New Breed

Side B: 1. Soulfully, I Love You/Black Spiritual Of Love 2. Cry Of Hunger

Pure Pleasure / Strata East SES-19739