I love this album. Over the years, I've had to sell a lot of my LPs and CDs for various reasons, but I never let go of this one. My copy is pretty wrecked, so I ordered one from DUSTY GROOVES and it arrived on Wednesday afternoon. It's a reasonably clean copy. I'm still searching for that mint copy. I know it's out there...
The Third Cup, Cadet, 1969
Out of print LP. Ripped @ 320.
EDDIE FISHER (1943-2007) came out of Wes Montgomery & Grant Green, but on his Cadet albums there's a spareness, a rawness, a looseness in his playing that just kills me. Same for the whole combo, which includes the not-yet-amazing PAUL JACKSON [BLACK OCTOPUS], a few years before he developed into the tree of life at the center of the Headhunters Band (he plays acoustic on The Shadow Of Your Smile). The whole album is excellent. The title track is one of the high masterpieces of soul-jazz.
1. Scorched Earth (Fisher) 3:06
2. A Dude Called Zeke (Fisher) 3:49
3. Shut Up (Fisher) 7:02
4. The Third Cup (Fisher) 6:07
5. Two By Two (Oliver Lake) 3:20 [abrupt end of fade as is on LP]
6. Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Be-Do-Da-Day (Cosby, May & Wonder) 3:55
7. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Mandel & Webster) 11:57
Eddie Fisher, g
Phil Westmoreland, 2nd g
Bobby Selby, org
Paul Jackson, b
Kenny "Spider Webb" Rice, d
Recorded at Saico Studios, St. Louis, Mo., February, 1969
Produced and engineered by Oliver Sain
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Fisher's second Cadet album, Eddie Fisher & The Next One Hundred Years, is a psychedelic monster. Coming soon!
In harmony,
Chris
