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| 1. | Future Song
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| 2. | Crabs
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| 3. | Moses in the Bullrushourses
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| 4. | What the Morning Was After
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| 5. | The Pirate's Dream
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| 6. | Same Old Thing
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| 7. | Moses in the Bullrushourses (*)
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| 8. | The Pirates Dream (*)
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| 9. | No Amount of Loving (*)
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| 10. | I'll Go Back to Venus [Previously Unreleased Manchild Recordings][*]
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| 11. | I Can't Get It [Previously Unreleased Manchild Recordings][*]
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Jazz / Blues-Rock, Post-Bop
Recorded: April 1972
Dick Heckstall-Smith
Caleb Quaye Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Chris Farlowe Vocals
Chris Spedding Guitar (Electric)
Dave Greenslade Piano
Gordon Beck Piano
Graham Bond Vocals, Piano, Moog Synthesizer, Organ
Harry Shapiro Liner Notes
Jon Hiseman Conga, Maracas, Bongos, Drums
Malcolm Clarke Vocals, Guitar (Bass)
Mike Vickers Moog Synthesizer
Paschal Byrne Remastering
Paul Williams & His Hucklebuckers Vocals
Peter Gallen Mixing
Phil Smee Package Design
Rob Tait Drums
T.S. Eliot Title
Tom Newman Mixing, Engineer
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the debut solo album by former Colosseum saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith. Recorded upon the demise of Colosseum, the sessions featured contributions by Jon Hiseman, Mark Clarke, Chris Farlowe and Dave Greenslade along with Graham Bond and Chris Spedding. A superb example of Jazz influenced Progressive Rock, the album appeared on Bronze Records in 1972 and is now hailed as a classic of the genre. This reissue features three live recordings as bonus tracks and two studio tracks by the band Manchild featuring Dick Heckstall-Smith, James Litherland, Dave Rose, Billy Smith and Theodore Thunder.
Rather than a story ended, Dick Heckstall-Smith's debut album was in some ways a continuation of the stories written by his previous bands Colosseum and the Graham Bond Organisation, for the record was recorded with the assistance of several of his past associates from those two groundbreaking british blues-rock-jazz groups, including Mark Clarke, Dave Greenslade, Chris Farlowe, and Jon Hiseman (who both played drums and produced) of the just-disbanded Colosseum, as well as Graham Bond. Pete Brown, who'd worked with several of the musicians who sprang from the Graham Bond Organisation crowd, co-wrote most of the songs with Heckstall-Smith; Chris Spedding and famed Elton John sideman Caleb Quaye contributed guitar. As often happens on solo projects stuffed with contributions by famous friends, however, the album was something of a disappointment in comparison to the leader's respectable track record. It sounds like a slightly heavier, slightly jazzier Colosseum, with songs that strain and tumble over themselves where the best Colosseum tracks had a powerful glide. Vocals were never Colosseum's strong suit, but the singing here, particularly on those tracks paced by Farlowe's blustery bellow, really drags the lyrically ambitious (and at times convoluted) material down. It might have been better to have had Pete Brown himself sing on those numbers he co-composed, as he was capable of projecting a real sense of his lyrics in spite of his vocal limitations. Instead, listeners are left with a confused-sounding (and at times grating) set that doesn't add up to the sum of the individual talents, though in the most melodic and laid-back number ("What the Morning Was After"), you get a hint of the kind of moody songs that Brown helped craft for Jack Bruce's early solo recordings. [The 2004 U.K. expanded CD reissue on Castle adds three pretty well-recorded live tracks from the touring band Heckstall-Smith assembled shortly after A Story Ended was recorded, including versions of two of the songs from the album ("Moses in the Bullrushourses" and "The Pirate's Dream"), as well as a cover of a Paul Butterfield song ("No Amount of Loving") not on the LP. The CD also adds a couple of previously unreleased studio recordings (credited to Manchild) laid down by the band in early 1973, although the album for which these were intended was never finished due to an injury to Heckstall-Smith.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
Dick Heckstall-Smith
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 26, 1934 in Ludlow, England
Died: Dec 17, 2004
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Avant-Garde, Blues-Rock, British Blues, Crossover Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Neo-Bop, Post-Bop
Saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith had a major role in the British blues boom of the 1960s, playing in the bands of Alexis Korner, Graham Bond, and John Mayall. In all of his work, and particularly in the late-'60s band Colosseum, he ventured into the little-explored territory where blues, jazz, and rock meet. In addition to doing session work, he's released some solo recordings. 1995's Celtic Steppes, funded by the Arts Council of England, was an ambitious world fusion outing.
---Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide |
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