A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP David Byrne Watermelon

Watermelon

truer sense of self than ever before

The world is in chaos

in the garages and makeshift studios of Melbourne’s suburban sprawl

Marvin Gaye (“Trouble Man”) and the Four Tops (“Keeper Of The Castle”)

A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP David Byrne WatermelonRecorded in October 1961, A Fickle Sonance is a quintessential hard bop outing by Jackie McLean that also offered just a hint of the avant garde explorations the alto saxophonist was about to embark on in the years to come with the dissonances of the title tracks intro. Otherwise the fantastic quintetwith McLean joined by Tommy Turrentine on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on piano, and Billy Higgins on drumskept it firmly in the pocket on