Wonderin'

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Wonderin'
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Studio album by
Rollercoaster
Released1980
Recorded1979–1980
Studio Pye Studios, London
Genre Jazz-funk
Label Ronnie Scott's Record Productions, Pye
Producer Karl Jenkins, Mike Ratledge

Wonderin' is a tribute album featuring jazz-funk cover versions of Stevie Wonder songs. It was recorded by the ad hoc band Rollercoaster made up of leading UK session and jazz musicians from British jazz-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s such as Soft Machine, [1] Blue Mink and Nucleus.

Contents

It was released on Ronnie Scott's record label. Many of the Rollercoaster musicians later recorded the Soft Machine album, Land of Cockayne , and made up Soft Machine's live line-up which played a six-night residency at Ronnie Scott's in 1984.

Track listing

  1. "I Wish"
  2. "Boogie On Reggae Woman"
  3. "Higher Ground"
  4. "Superstition"
  5. "Mr. W." (Karl Jenkins) [2]
  6. "Living for the City"

Personnel

References

  1. Bennett, Graham Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous SAF Publishing Ltd, 2005 ISBN   0-946719-84-5 ISBN   978-0-946719-84-6 at Google Books
  2. credited to Mike Ratledge and Karl Jenkins on Calibre pressing