Artist: The Awakening
Album: Hear, Sense, and Feel
Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz, Modal Jazz
Label: Black Jazz Records
Released: 1972/2003
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Awakening - Prologue Spring Thing
- When Will It Every End
- Convulsions
- Kera's Dance
- Jupiter
- Brand New Feeling
- Awakening - Epilogue
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- Personnel:
- Ken Chaney (Piano, Electric Piano)
- Frank Gordon (Trumpet, Flugelhorn)
- Richard (Ari) Brown (Tenor Saxophone, Flute)
- Arlington David (Drums)
- Steve Galloway (Trombone)
- Reggie Willis (Bass)
- Richard Evans (Electric Bass)
An excellent funky fusion group from Chicago – and one of the best ensembles to record for the Black Jazz label! The group's made up of hip Chicago underground players – and includes Ken Chaney on electric piano, Ari Brown on saxes, and Frank Gordon on trumpet – a lineup that comes together with the same sort of righteous energy and soulful power as Windy City contemporaries like The Pharoahs or Earth Wind & Fire! On this first LP, they jam with a mix of righteous funk and spiritual soul jazz, mixing electric piano, choppy reeds, and tight horns with a powerful rhythm backing that never goes too over the top, and which stays in a good modal mode that works great for the soloists – soaringly expressive at a personal level, yet coming together with a really righteous group feel in the end. Tracks include "Jupiter", "Brand New Feeling", "Convulsions", and "Kera's Dance". © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc.
The Awakening sees the light of day again, escaping oblivion thanks to the reissuing of the Chicago-based jazz sextet's 1972 album titled Hear, Sense & Feel. While keeping attuned to John Coltrane's spirituality, the group follows a no-nonsense, straightforward jazz course with sidesteps into the freer jazz zones -- quite natural for band pianist Ken Chaney and saxophonist/flautist Ari Brown, given their involvement with the Afro-centric AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Music).