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Astral Signal
Studio album by Gene Harris
Released	1975
Recorded	August 13, 1974
Studio	The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz-funk [1]
Length	40min 34sec
Label	Blue Note / Capitol
Producer	Keg Johnson, Jerry Peters, Jim Shifflett
Gene Harris chronology
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1973) Astral Signal (1975) Nexus (1975)

Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1974 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris.

Harris covered the Chicago tune " Beginnings" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

1. "Prelude" ( Jerry Peters) - 1:38
2. "Summer (The First Time)" ( Bobby Goldsboro) - 3:32
3. "Rebato Summer" (Peters) - 0:44
4. "I Remember Summer" (Peters) - 2:03
5. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" ( Sly Stone) - 3:44
6. "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Peters) - 3:06
7. "My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
8. " Green River" ( John Fogerty) - 3:01
9. " Beginnings" ( Robert Lamm) - 5:50
10. "Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" ( Monk Higgins, Alex Brown) - 1:57
11. "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
12. "Love Talkin'" (Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

• Gene Harris - keyboards, lead vocals
• Oscar Brashear - trumpet
• George Bohanon - trombone, backing vocals
• Keg Johnson - trombone, backing vocals
• Sidney Muldrow - flugelhorn
• Ernie Watts - reeds
• Jerry Peters - piano, backing vocals
• John Rowin - guitar
• David T. Walker - guitar
• Chuck Rainey - bass guitar
• Harvey Mason - drums
• Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
• Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - backing vocals

References