Walter Bishop Jr.

Keyboardist Walter Bishop Jr's Coral Keys album was the second long player to get released on Blue Note. It was a triumph of lush jazz atmospherics with hefty doses of 70s soul, but just two years later he reinvented himself for 1973's Keeper of My Soul, which came deeply entrench in spirituality in part because of his studies with yogi Parmahansa Yogananda. The ambitious record features great work from flautist and sax man Hubert Laws, bassist Gerald Brown and vibraphonist Woody Murray, all of whom serve up myriad free-form passages and plenty of funky interpretations, not least a cover of 'Summertime.' The whole album has been remastered for this pressing and comes with liner notes from Pat Thomas

PERSONNEL:

• Walter Bishop, Jr. - (keyboards)
• Ronnie Laws - (flute, sax)
• Gerald Brown - (bass)
• Woody Murray - (vibes)
• Shakur M. Abdulla - (percussion)
• Bahir Hassan - (drums)

TRACKS:

• 01. Soul Village
• 02. N'Dugu's Prayer
• 03. Summertime
• 04. Those Who Chant
• 05. Keeper Of My Soulv
• 06. Blue Bossa
• 07. Sweet Rosa