Format Details: Blue With Black Swirl Vinyl / Blue with Black Swirl Vinyl
Release Date: 14 March 2025
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064019053
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 12 February 2021
Label: Real Gone Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 848064011675
Genres: Jazz
Description
The late, great Calvin Keys'1971 debut album for the Black Jazz Records label
announced the arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar firmament. Keys had
spent the '60s backing up the crème de la crème of jazz organists—Jimmy
Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, Richard "Groove" Holmes—but for his
first record as a leader, he was eager to play with a piano player instead. So he recruited one of the best—Larry Nash, who, besides being a member of the L.A. Express, played with everybody from Eddie Harris to Bill Withers to Etta James. Bassist Lawrence Evans, drummer Bob Braye, and flautist-songwriter Owen Marshall rounded out the group on Shawn-Neeq, which might remind some of Pat Metheny's early work (Metheny acknowledges Keys as an influence), or Grant Green. But what gives Shawn-Neeq extra depth is that it comes from the heart; as Keys says in Pat Thomas' liner notes, which feature an interview with the artist: "My thing was, I write about some of the experiences that I've had in my life." Keys became a fixture in the Bay Area jazz scene before he passed in April 2024; this is the album that started his journey. Another gem from the celebrated Black Jazz catalog, pressed in blue
with black swirl vinyl limited to 750 copies!
Description
Calvin Keys's 1971 debut album for the Black Jazz Records label announced
the arrival of a new star in the jazz guitar firmament. Keys had spent the '60s backing up the cr�me de la cr�me of jazz organists�Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, Richard "Groove" Holmes�but for his first record as a leader, he was eager to play with a piano player instead. So he recruited one of the best�Larry Nash, who, besides being a member of the L.A. Express, played with everybody from Eddie Harris to Bill Withers to Etta James.
Bassist Lawrence Evans, drummer Bob Braye, and flautist-songwriter Owen
Marshall rounded out the group on Shawn-Neeq, which might remind some
of Pat Metheny's early work (Metheny acknowledges Keys as an influence), or
Grant Green. But what gives Shawn-Neeq extra depth is that it comes from the heart; as Keys says in Pat Thomas' liner notes, which feature an interview with the artist: "My thing was, I write about some of the experiences that I've had in my life." Keys has since become a fixture in the Bay Area jazz scene; this is the album that started his journey. Another gem from the celebrated Black Jazz catalog!
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
X-Ray Spex
Tyketto
Loudon Wainwright Iii
Petula Clark
The Donnas
Tiny Tim
Willie Nelson
Willie Hutch
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
Lea Maria Fries
Danny Widdicombe & Trichotomy
Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings
Kris Davis Trio
Pieces Of A Dream
Lifeline
Shifa
