Astral Signal Explained

Astral Signal
Type:	Studio Album
Artist:	Gene Harris
Cover:	GeneHarris_AstralSignal.jpg
Released:	1975
Recorded:	August 13, 1974
Studio:	The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA
Genre:	Jazz-funk^[1]
Length:	40min 34sec
Label:	Blue Note / Capitol
Producer:	Keg Johnson, Jerry Peters, Jim Shifflett
Prev Title:	Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Prev Year:	1973
Next Title:	Nexus
Next Year:	1975

Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1974 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris.

Harris covered the Chicago tune "Beginnings" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

1. "Prelude" (Jerry Peters) - 1:38
2. "Summer (The First Time)" (Bobby Goldsboro) - 3:32
3. "Rebato Summer" (Peters) - 0:44
4. "I Remember Summer" (Peters) - 2:03
5. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (Sly Stone) - 3:44
6. "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Peters) - 3:06
7. "My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
8. "Green River" (John Fogerty) - 3:01
9. "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) - 5:50
10. "Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" (Monk Higgins, Alex Brown) - 1:57
11. "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
12. "Love Talkin'" (Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

• Gene Harris - keyboards, lead vocals
  • Oscar Brashear - trumpet George Bohanon - trombone, backing vocals
• Keg Johnson - trombone, backing vocals
• Sidney Muldrow - flugelhorn
• Ernie Watts - reeds
• Jerry Peters - piano, backing vocals
• John Rowin - guitar
• David T. Walker - guitar
  • Chuck Rainey - bass guitar Harvey Mason - drums
• Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
• Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - backing vocals

Notes and References

1. Web site: BeatCaffeine's 100 Best Jazz-Funk Songs . https://web.archive.org/web/20180825081205/https://beatcaffeine.com/100-best-jazz-funk-songs/ . Gorton . TJ . BeatCaffeine . July 30, 2018 . August 25, 2018 . September 19, 2021.