SEALED LP: ERIC GALE: FORCAST

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Eric Gale: Forcast

FACTORY SEALED LP

• Killing Me Softly with His Song
• Cleopatra
• Dindi
• White Moth
• Tonsue Corte
• Forecast

• Pepper Adams: Sax (Baritone)
• Seymour Barab: Cello
• Randy Brecker: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Alfred Brown: Viola
• Garnett Brown: Trombone
• Bob Ciano: Design
• Arnaldo DeSouteiro: Liner Notes, Reissue Supervisor
• Jerry Dodgion: Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
• Gordon Edwards: Bass, Bass (Electric)
• Max Ellen: Violin
• Jon Faddis: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Joe Farrell: Flute, Sax (Tenor)
• John Frosk: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Eric Gale: Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Rhythm Arrangements
• Bob James & Creations: Organ, Synthesizer, Piano, Conductor, Marimba, Piano (Electric), Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
• Bob James: Organ, Synthesizer, Arranger, Director, Piano (Electric), Bass Marimba
• Art Jenkins: Conga, Tambourine
• Arthur Jenkins: Conga, Tambourine
• Artie Jenkins: Conga, Tambourine
• Hubert Laws: Flute, Piccolo, Soloist
• David A. Leffel: Paintings
• Harry Lookofsky: Violin
• Ralph MacDonald: Percussion
• Joe Malin: Violin
• George Marge: Flute, Flute (Alto), Flute (Bass)
• Rick Marotta: Bass, Drums
• Susumu Morikawa: Reissue Producer
• Idris Muhammad: Drums
• David Nadien: Violin
• Gene Orloff: Violin
• Victor Paz: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Alan Raph: Trombone
• George Ricci: Cello
• Elliot Rosoff: Violin
• Bill Salter: Bass (Electric)
• Irving Spice: Violin
• Marvin Stamm: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
• Tony Studd: Trombone, Horn (Baritone)
• Creed Taylor: Producer
• Rudy Van Gelder: Engineer
• Emanuel Vardi: Viola

• Eric Gale's 1973 Forecast album on the Kudu label is one of his most varied texturally. Produced by Kudu label boss Creed Taylor, the rhythm tracks were arranged by Gale, and the horns and strings by Bob James. Taylor surrounded Gale with the cream-of-the-crop of the current session players: jazz's most soulful drummer, Idris Muhammad, was in the house for most of the album, and Rick Marotta filled out the rest. Saxophonists included Joe Farrell, Pepper Adams, and Jerry Dodgion (an underrated ace who made his name with Curtis Amy on his Pacific jazz sides in the early '60s), and trumpeters included Randy Brecker and Jon Faddis. Hubert Laws and George Marge sat in the flute chairs, and James played piano and synths. Gale, for his part, was blended into a meticulously arranged and gorgeously orchestrated set of mixed tempo originals, and a pair of carefully chosen covers: "Killing Me Softly," by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, and Antonio Carlos Jobim's and Aloysio de Oliviera's deeply moving "Dindi." Gale's single string lines bite harder than some of the Brazilian counterparts, but because his blues inflection is so pronounced against the lush strings, keyboards, and horns, it works wonderfully. Gale's own grooved out "Cleopatra," and the otherworldly funk and blues feel of "White Moth," are just off-kilter enough to add a labyrinthine dimension to the album. Gale was a tear when he was on Kudu, and this album is the first example of his particular brand of street tough yet bedroom romantic soul-jazz for the label.

• A guitarist who was used for many R&B-oriented dates and occasionally played jazz, Eric Gale had an appealing sound and was best while performing lazy melodic blues. He was most significant to the jazz world in the early '70s, when he recorded often as a sideman for CTI, later on with the group Stuff, and on isolated tracks on his own sessions. Gale's fine 1987 EmArcy set In a Jazz Tradition shows what he could really do.

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