Carnival (Vinyl LP) Hard Rock

Carnival (Vinyl LP) Hard RockHandy continues with the formula for success that had make his previous album, Hard Work, an R&B club hit. Some new session musicians are added. Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, James Jamerson, James Gadson, Sonny Burke, Paulinho da Costa, indicate the direction of the music. On Carnival, Handy manages even better to mix the Jazz, Latin, and R&B ingredients. The general mood throughout is one of serenity, nostalgia and unhurried mastery. Watch Your Money

long decade

snaking synth lines and fuzzed out guitars

Booker Ervin and Jaki Byard among its all-star cast

Long term collaborator Alex Reeves returns on drums and percussion with Sarah Field on clarinets and saxophones

Bastards of Young

Once more the band that dares to be different dives into the Devil's gutbucket and comes up gasping with 14 cuts to push your panic button

Forty years later

from the dynamic title track onwards

In "Remembering Me

Alternate Moon Cycles)

with Greg Wilson rightly referring to him as "a leading light of the global re-edits movement

and wonderful than anything they've done before