Artist: Harold Alexander
Album: Are You Ready?
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz
Label: Solid Records/Flying Dutchman
Released: 1972/2018
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Watermelon Man (Hancock-Lynne) - 10:21
- High Heel Sneakers (Higginbotham) - 10:11
- Quick City Revisited (Alexander) - 16:05
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- Personnel:
- Harold Alexander - soprano saxophone, flute
- Neal Creque - piano (#1,2), electric piano (#3)
- Richard Landrum (#3) - conga, cowbell
- Victor Gaskin (#1,2), Richard Davis (#3) - bass
- Cornell Dupree - electric guitar (#1,2)
- David Lee, Jr. (#1,2), Pretty Purdie (#3) - drums
Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival with a stellar backing band including bassist Richard Davis, keyboardist Neal Creque, and drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Are You Ready? further expands the cosmic jazz-funk horizons established by Harold Alexander's seminal Sunshine Man. Comprising three epic performances, including a lively rendition of the stalwart "Watermelon Man" and the side-long funk jam "Quick City Revisited," the album burns like a slow fuse-- Alexander doesn't create grooves so much as he inhabits them, exploring their nooks and crannies to embrace the full scope of their inherent possibilities.
Review by Jason Ankeny