This is not an album by Laurindo Almeida, although he has 3 tracks on it. It actually is a very good double various artists-album which gives a marvellous round-up of jazz guitar music at that point in time, 1976. All the music was specially recorded for this project, which makes it quite unique. It's very well-produced by the famous jazz afficionado, Leonard Feather, in cooperation with Guitar Player magazine : the music is played in many different styles, but at the same time the sound image is uncannily consistent. Although B.B. King is, of course, an electric blues player, the acoustic, overdubbed with electric guitar Larry Coryell contribution, 'Autumn in New York', which follows his 'Counting My Tears' seems sequenced perfectly logical. The songs by Lee Ritenour are some of his best, as he avoids here the populist traps which mar his more commercial albums. The liner notes are very informative and, to top it off, it has a nice cover, as you can see.
Misterious Traveller
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Laurindo Almeida Irving Ashby
John Collins Larry Coryell
Herb Ellis Joe Pass
B.B. King Lee Ritenour
Guitar Player
An Album of Contemporary Styles
by Modern Masters
(MCA2-8012)
Tracks
Lp 1
1 Valdez in the Country (Hathaway) 6:35
2 Guitar Player (Feather) 3:45
3 Django (Lewis) 5:56
4 Two More for the Blues (Ellis) 5:39
5 Bertha Baptist (James) 9:43
6 Lament in Tremolo Form (Almeida) 4:02
7 Allison II (Pass) 4:14
8 Contrary-Ness (Kessel) 4:59
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Lp 2
1 Toronto under the Sign of Capricorn (Coryell) 3:44
2 Spain (Corea) 5:19
3 Two Track Trip (Pass) 5:23
4 Feelings (Albert) 4:25
5 Samba for Sarah (Almeida) 3:44
6 Counting my Tears (Feather) 6:41
7 Autumn in New York (Duke) 4:23
8 Shivers (Hampton, Christian) 4:26
9 Funkville U.S.A. (Feather) 3:34
10 Tea for Two (Youmans, Caesar) 4:33
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Personnel
[Lp 1, # 1 & 5]
Lee Ritenour - g
Ernie Watts - ts
Patrice Rushen - kbrds
Bill Dickenson - b
Wilson Q. Wilson - dr
Steve Forman - prc
Recorded at Total Experience Studios, Hollywood ; September 23, 1976
[Lp 1, # 2 & Lp 2, # 6]
B. B. King - g
Milton Hopkins - rhtm g
Bobby Forte - ts
Leonard Feather - p
James Toney - org & p
Joe Turner - b
John Starks - dr
Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco ; December 11, 1976
[Lp 1, # 3 & 7 & Lp 2, # 3]
Joe Pass - g
Recorded at MCA Recording Studios, Universal City ; October 18, 1975
[Lp 1, # 4 & 8 & Lp 2, # 10]
Herb Ellis - g
Barney Kessel - g
Pete Jolly - p
Monty Budwig - b
Jake Hanna - dr
Recorded same place as above ; October 4, 1976
[Lp 1, # 6 & Lp 2, # 4 & 5]
Laurindo Almeida - g
Monty Budwig - b
Jake Hanna - dr
Recorded same place & date as above
[Lp 2, # 1, 2 & 7]
Larry Coryell - g
Recorded same place & date as above
[Lp 2, # 8 & 9]
Irving Ashby - g
John Collins - g
Hampton Hawes - p
John Heard - b
Billy Higgins - dr
Recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood ; November 23, 1976