Wednesday, 11 December 2024

Larry Bright's Solar Visions (1978) and John Lee and Gerry Brown's Mango Sunrise from 1975, by request

 









Larry Bright was the drummer for Sun Ra in the mid-70s. He released this album in 1978, instrumental fusion with a spacey feel, appropriately called Solar Visions and it opens with the stunningly beautiful (and George Duke-like) electric piano sound for Aura Pt. 2:


For John Lee and George Brown who were a rhythm section (bassist and drummer, respectively) I would think everyone is familiar with their first album from 1974, Infinite Jones, which has a number of fantastic fusion tracks on it. It was produced by Chris Hinze and the last 2 tracks are by him also.

After that one came Mango Sunrise, note the luminaries with first of all Jasper Van't Hof on clavinet, but on guitars Eef Albers who was posted here (Skyrider) and also for his masterpiece Pyramids, and the wondrous P. Catherine again.  Even Rob Franken on synths too (recall he was the keyboardist in the formidable fusion band Scope).
Their follow up was more accessible and a little bit tidier and commercial with simpler electric guitar riffs, on the whole. Minimal complex prog. If you look on this page you can see all the credits and observe John Lee did most of the composition. So for ex., on the track called Keep It Real, the synth is performed by Franken and both guitarists are playing (Catherine, Albers):

In terms of more uptempo high-energy-physics stuff, Magnum Opus is really magnum:
https://archive.org/details/8-magnum-opus
Some rather wondrous top-velocity soloing work on that number.






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  1. Solar Visions
    https://krakenfiles.com/view/ZJOyz83SEh/file.html
    https://www.sendspace.com/file/glbs7g

    John Lee and Gerry Brown, Infinite Jones and Mango Sunrise:
    https://www.sendspace.com/file/esnq84
    https://krakenfiles.com/view/m2HOUCJspS/file.html

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