Trying to Make Heaven My Home

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Trying to Make Heaven My Home
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Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedMarch 3 & 4, 1979 at Tonstudio Zuckerfabrik in Stuttgart, Germany
Genre Jazz
Length38:21
Label MPS 0068.234
Producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt
Billy Harper chronology
Soran-Bushi, B.H.
(1977)
Trying to Make Heaven My Home
(1979)
Billy Harper Quintet in Europe
(1979)

Trying to Make Heaven My Home is an album led by saxophonist Billy Harper recorded on March 3 and 4, 1979, at Tonstudio Zuckerfabrik in Stuttgart (Germany) and released on the German MPS label. [1]

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In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos states "A quintet recording for this incendiary tenor saxophonist. An extended, hard-blowing session". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Billy Harper

  1. "Trying to Make Heaven My Home" - 18:00
  2. "Inside" - 8:29
  3. "Love on the Sudan" - 11:52

Personnel

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References

  1. Billy Harper discography accessed March 31, 2015
  2. 1 2 Nastos, Michael G.. Trying to Make Heaven My Home – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 31, 2015.