🎷 AotW: Kudu Joe Beck: Beck (Kudu Records KU-21) / Beck & Sanborn (CTI Records CTI 8002)

Joe Beck: Beck

Kudu Records KU-21
Released 1975
(pictured top right)

Reissued as Beck & Sanborn in 1979
CTI Records CTI 8002
(pictured middle right)

• A1: Star Fire /4:31
• A2: Cactus /4:55
• A3: Texas Ann /7:53
• B1: Red Eye /7:10
• B2: Cafe Black Rose /4:23
• B3: Brothers And Others /6:23

Alto Saxophone – David Sanborn
Arranged By [String] – Don Sebesky
Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci, Jesse Levy
Design – Bob Ciano
Drums – Chris Parker (2)
Electric Bass – Will Lee
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – Joe Beck, Steve Khan
Illustration – Abdul Mati Klarwein*
Keyboards – Don Grolnick
Lacquer Cut By – VAN GELDER*
Percussion – Ray Mantilla
Producer – Creed Taylor
Violin – Charles Libove, David Nadien, Frederick Buldrini, Harold Kohon, Harry Cykman, Harry Lookofsky, Joe Malin, Max Ellen, Peter Dimitriades

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, March, 1975


Amazon product ASIN B00FASB9WA

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[Rudy]

This is a decent fusion-ish record, and the album title change as a reissue reflects the larger contribution David Sanborn made to this album.

But damn...this has to be CTI's ugliest album cover painting ever...and the 80s reissue replacement is so poorly executed that it's not even attractive, given the subject matter.