Awakening (Sonny Fortune album)

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Awakening
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Studio album by
Released1975
RecordedAugust 28 and September 8–9, 1975
StudioPlaza Sound Studios and Sound Ideas, New York City
Genre Straight-ahead jazz, hard bop, modal jazz
Length40:33
Label Horizon
Producer Ed Michel
Sonny Fortune chronology
Long Before Our Mothers Cried
(1974)
Awakening
(1975)
Waves of Dreams
(1976)

Awakening is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Fortune recorded in 1975 and released on the Horizon label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Village Voice A− [4]

In The Village Voice , Robert Christgau said while Awakening featured nothing innovative, it did showcase Fortune's knack for "great synthesis", including "shades of hard bop and late-'50s Miles in a more modal setting, so lyrical and tough-minded that the 12-minute flute-and-congas thing (the title cut, wouldn't you know) becomes quite credible, even listenable." [4] Vincent Thomas for AllMusic calls the album "an adequate set of mostly straight-ahead jazz, which sets it apart from many of his fusion-venturing peers of the '70s". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Fortune except where noted.

  1. "Triple Threat" (Rodgers Grant) - 10:27
  2. "Nommo" (Jymie Merritt) - 9:38
  3. "Sunshower" (Kenny Barron) - 5:14
  4. "For Duke and Cannon" - 2:58
  5. "Awakening" - 12:16

Personnel

References

  1. Sonny Fortune discography [usurped] accessed February 2, 2015
  2. 1 2 Thomas, V., Allmusic Review accessed February 2, 2015
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 79. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (February 2, 1976). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved May 29, 2016.