Fire Eater (album)

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Fire Eater
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Studio album by
Rusty Bryant
Released1971
RecordedFebruary 22, 1971
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length35:08
Label Prestige
PR 10014
Producer Bob Porter
Rusty Bryant chronology
Soul Liberation
(1970)		Fire Eater
(1971)		 Wild Fire
(1971)

Fire Eater is an album by jazz saxophonist Rusty Bryant recorded for the Prestige label in 1971. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a session that has Bryant stretching out his meaty tone and improvisations a bit further than usual. This is respectable soul-jazz with a lot of funk, but no fusion, employing the tenor sax-organ-guitar-drums lineup". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Fire Eater" (Rusty Bryant, Jeremy Taylor) - 9:30
  2. "Free at Last" (Bryant, Wilbert Longmire) - 8:35
  3. "The Hooker" (Leon Spencer) - 9:25
  4. "Mister S." (Spencer) - 7:38

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Prestige Records discography accessed May 1, 2013
  2. 1 2 Unterberger, R. Allmusic listing accessed May 1, 2013.
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