Doug Carn

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Further distanced in time from John Coltrane's spiritual new-jazz and the influential second Miles Davis quintet, Doug Carn showed a close affinity with R&B when recording his fourth and final Black Jazz album Adam's Apple. Sharing his interest in R&B was a platoon of committed, resourceful jazz musicians including young star-in-the-making Ronnie Laws, who had worked with Earth, Wind & Fire before that band's big commercial breakthrough. Of the others, ace guitarists Nathan Page and Calvin Keys had acquired intimacy with the soulful properties of African-American music of the time, performing with the premier jazz organist Jimmy Smith

PERSONNEL:

• Gerald Brown - acoustic bass
• Darrel Clayborn - bass
• Big Black - percussion
• Harold Mason - drums
• Calvin Keys, Nathan Page - guitar
• Doug Carn - keyboards
• Ronnie Laws - soprano & tenor sax
• Thurman Green - tromboneV
• Doug Carn, John Conner, Joyce Greene - vocals

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Chant
• A2. Higher Ground
• A3. Sweet Season
• A4. Sanctuary

• SIDE B
• B1. Mighty Mighty
• B2. The Messenger
• B3. Adam's Apple
• B4. To A Wild Rose
• B5. Western Sunrise