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His earliest records were jazz-based, and Bossa Nova (one of the first in the country to introduce it). But once he added the "Consort" to his group name, that's when he got into what became known as "earth music" or whatever it goes by. The term "consort," though, actually does stretch all the way back to the Renaissance and medieval times, as Winter was using strings, woodwinds and percussion in a similar way for his own music via the Consort.His early stuff always sounded to me like a medieval minstrel show or reminded me of Renaissance Faire music. I appreciated his sound more as I got older.
Good call on that. I also wonder who sang on the album. If it was John, then he should have duetted with Herb on a few of those TJB-era singles!Kind of a Jim-Croce-ish lyric on that one.
I've always heard Herb Alpert himself on some of the vocal tracks on this album. All of the vocals sound off the cuff and happening live in the studio at the time the tracks were recorded.Do we know who does the vocals on the P&R album? "Stop" and "Slim" -- is it Pisano, Ruff, or somebody else?
Now see, I'm thinking back to the BRASS ARE COMIN' special with Herb and John trying to figure out an arrangement for "Moon River". To me, John Pisano's voice sounded very similar to Herb's - same high-ish tenor range, so I figured he's sound a little like Herb singing. But those places I identified sound like Herb for sure. He was right there producing, so why not?it doesn't sound like Pisano's spoken voice that I'm familiar with.
When I first spun this, I thought the same thing. I really like the casual quality of the vocal here (and also on I'll Never Fall in Love Again), which is reminicent of the first time I Heard Herb's voice (though l didn't know it at the time (when he vocalized the new melody he wrote to Tangerine (WC&OD) , which you could barely hear along side the piano... the whole LP almost feels like a "19th hole" affair: we went from a studio crew...to world wide fame and fortune...and now we're have a low-profile musical nightcap of sorts (Summertime also exhibits the feel)."The Drifter" really sounds like Herb to me on the scat vocals that open the song