AOTW: Jimmy Owens - Headin' Home (SP-729)

[Captain Bacardi]

Jimmy Owens
HEADIN' HOME
A&M/Horizon SP-729

Released 1978

Format: Vinyl/8-Track/Cassette

Produced by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Songs:

• 1. Home (Charlie Smalls) 5:53
  2. New Tune (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) 5:47
  3. Dreaming My Life Away (Jimmy Owens/Norma Jordan) 5:45
  4. Never Subject To Change (Jimmy Owens) 5:34
  5. B.S. (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) 6:51
  6. Sweet Love (Kenny Barron/Chris White) 9:42
  7. Exercise (Dis'Go, Dis'Way) (Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson) 6:21

Musicians:
Jimmy Owens - Trumpet and Flugelhorn
Kenny Barron - Keyboards
George Davies - Guitar
Carlos Alomar - Guitar
Brian Brake - Drums
Gary King - Bass
Erroll "Crusher" Bennett - Percussion
Mantwila Nyomo - Guitar
Chris White - Bass
Billy Cobham - Drums (7)
Stanley Cowell - Keyboards (7)
Alex Foster - Alto Sax and Flute
Jerry Dodgion - Alto Sax and Flute
George Barrow - Baritone Sax and Flute
Seldon Powell - Tenor Sax and Flute
Harold Vick - Tenor Sax and Flute
Cecil Bridgewater - Trumpet
Virgil Jones - Trumpet
Jon Faddis - Trumpet
Charles Sullivan - Trumpet
Victor Paz - Trumpet
Wayne Andre - Trombone
Al Paterson - Trombone
Janice Robinson - Trombone
Earl McIntyre - Trombone
Colerdige-Taylor Perkinson - Electronic Keyboards

"Home", "New Tune", "B.S." and "Excercise" arranged by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.
"Dreaming My Life Away" and "Never Subject To Change" arranged by Jimmy Owens.
"Sweet Love" arranged by Kenny Barron.

Recorded and Mixed at Audio One, New York
Engineers: Ed Rice, Gary Roth and Michael Repp
Mixing Engineer: Ed Rice
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, New York

Production Assistant: Pamela Ross

Management: John Carter - Music Directions, Ltd.

Art Direction: Roland Young
Design: Chuck Beeson
Photography: Bill King
Illustration: Jim Barrett


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Captain Bacardi]

Disco jazz?

Yeah, that's what this basically is. It's too bad, because Jimmy Owens is a solid trumpet player and has a great sound on flugelhorn, too, as evident on the Kenny Barron ballad "Sweet Love". But this whole record just sounds old, with all of the generic disco rhythms that just go on and on and on and on... Too commercial for my tastes.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Captain Bacardi]

I need to make a correction. THIS is the last Horizon album with the yellow/orange label. I thought the Alpert-Masekela album was the last. But the next one - Mark Almond's Other People's Rooms (SP730) - begins the bluish Horizon label.


Capt. Bacardi
...making amends, online...

 

[Mr Bill]

And the Alpert/Masekela one was the first not to have the "Horizon #" tab on the upper spine as well...

--Mr Bill