LaMONT JOHNSON Sun, Moon And Stars 1972 Mainstream LP scientology jazz funk

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USA 1972 Mainstream records jazz funk LP on the Mainstream/Red Lion label with unipak style (thin front) gatefold sleeve (MRL 328). Great liner notes on the inside, starts..."Born in Harlem Hospital NYC 1941, Libra with Taurus rising, moon in Aquarius. Scientologist".

BAND: LaMont Johnson, keys, EX-42, cowbell Sal Marquez, trumpet; Charles Owens, ts, ss, fl; Yusef Rahman, tb Mel Lee, ds 1-3; Ray Pounds, ds 4-7 Reggie Johnson, bs, el bs 1-3; Stan Gilbert, bs, el bs 4-7 Pondaza, congas, bongos Art Johnson, gtr 1-3; Mike Deasey, el gtr 4-7.

A REVIEW: LaMont Johnson was under thirty when he produced this record. An excerpt from the original liner notes will explain the really odd sound Johnson gets from his keys:
"Never before has an organ, even the most majestic, offered such true-to-life piano and harpsichord realism; never before have organ voices been complemented by a piano-like sensitivity: Just as on a real piano, the force in your fingers is translated into expressive control of both volume and color.
"In an instrument that has everything, it's no surprise to find these Electone exclusives that are revolutionizing the field: the world's only Touch Vibrato (to transfer the emotion in your fingers with the same effect as a violin) plus split upper and lower conventional types. Add the versatility of a full preset board and toe pistons, four different coupler combinations, upper percussive and wave motion. Then listen to the exciting beat of the auto-rhythm section, unsurpassed tremolo realism from sound-in-motion rotary speakers and decades-ahead Yamaha Natural Sound speakers. "Sound incredible? "It is." Sound dated? It is. Dated to that pre-digital world back almost forty years ago, almost unrememberable now. Johnson is working here with a fairly brash horn and electric instrument ensemble, with some Blue Note-ish arrangements thrown in. It's very New York, the same fertile cauldron of jazz and soul and bugalu and rock that cross-pollinated the very best music of the 1970s.
There are some great horn charts here, and some keyboard moments that will have you sure my LP is severely, severely warped, which it is not. It's supposed to sound like that! They don't make records like this one anymore.
Trivia Note: This Lamont Johnson is not the same person as Eugene Lamont Johnson, bass player for disco/funk act Brainstorm with a solo album entitled Music of the Sun. He is, however, the same Lamont Johnson as played on a half-dozen Jackie McLean Blue Note albums in the late '60s and a handful of small label albums into the 1990s which I have not heard.

SONGS: A1 M'Bassa 7:19 A2 Signifyin' Gemini 7:12 A3 Medusa's Meanderings 4:53 B1 That's Not The Way To Do It, Beverly 8:15 B2 Europa 5:41 B3 Andromeda 5:16 B4 Libra's Longing 5:55

CONDITION: The record is in excellent condition with just a few light marks from the sleeve on it & the cover is VG+ with dented upper left corner, & then the usual corner & edgewear these unipak style sleeve always get in a hurry (very light compared to most).

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