Dancing Moments. 1981 Shadow Light
According to whatever data I could find, Landress / Hart were a Los Angeles based jazz fusion duo (though a full 4 piece group), one on guitar and the other on keyboards. The latter is the usual smattering of period synthesizers and Rhodes piano. It's all rather pleasant, and played to perfection. The Mrs. joined me for this listening session and thought it to be a very nice instrumental album as well. These guys were definitely pros who deserved more recognition. Recommended for fusion fans.
---9/15/19 update
For the above, I was not exactly hyperventilating the glory of its contents. And yet, shortly thereafter, the album became something of a "holy grail" for collectors. I know it had to be a coincidence - that someone important (an influencer as they say now), whoever that someone was - shared the album with others of a like mind, perhaps reminded by our post. We had reported at the time that it was a "$5 record", because that's what the last auction on ebay had received. Next thing you know, prices on ebay were fetching $500 and more! There's no accounting for the collector mindset. I see today that the price has normalized downward, but hardly back to $5.
In any case, on this revisit the music definitely can hold its own - and I found myself enjoying it more than prior. Still nothing extraordinary, but it would make for a nice reissue, especially given the demand.
Priority: 3
2/1/11 (new entry); 9/15/19
2 comments:
i was the drummer, young and ambitious, and these guys let me play my rear end off. In hindsight, i could have played less here and there! I do like the drum solo I took on the funk jazz tune - The Hopeful. Sadly I was so broke in those days, I joined touring copy bands to make a living afterward.
Thanks for sharing!
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