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Track Listing
1. Penn Relays
2. Danny Boy's Soul
3. Milestones
4. Tackhead
5. Grant's Groove
6. Good Date, A
7. More Today Than Yesterday
8. No Brain, No Pain
9. Europa (Earth's Cry-Heaven's Smile)
10. Unforgettable
11. Kicker, The
Album Notes
Personnel: Charles Earland (organ); Jeffrey Newell (soprano & alto saxophones); George Coleman, Houston Person, Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone); Kenny Rampton (trumpet); Johnny Coles (flugelhorn); Clifford Adams (trombone): Jimmy Ponder, Melvin Sparks, Robert Block, Oliver Nevels (guitar); Bobby Durham, Walter Perkins, Idris Muhammad, Marvin Jones, Gregory Williams, Buddy Williams (drums); Lawrence Killian (congas, percussion).
Producers: Ozzie Cadena, Houston Person.
Compilation producer: Todd Barkan.
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between 1976 and 1991. Includes liner notes by Eric Alexander.
Digitally remastered by Todd Gerard (Gerard Sound Lab, New York, New York).
Charles Earland emerged on the jazz scene as the great wave of '60s jazz organ was cresting--the same school whose most popular exponents were Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, and Jimmy McGriff. Earland was heavily influenced by Smith, but had his own brisk, mercurial, good-time uptown sound. THE ALMIGHTY BURNER compiles some prime cuts from his 1976-1991 stay at the Muse label.
The '70s soul/R&B-style "Tackhead" features some tasty playing from sax man Houston Person, while the Miles Davis standard "Milestones" is earnest, straight-ahead hard bop. The Carlos Santana tune "Europa" is given a stately, sultry and thoroughly cinematic treatment, proving Earland wasn't stuck in the '60s, or the '70s for that matter. BURNER is a fine, varied collection, proving groove-oriented jazz and "real" jazz are not incompatible.
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