Jeremy Steig Legwork LP 1970? gatefold NEAR MINT VINYL

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Jeremy Steig

Legwork

Label:Solid State Records SS 18068  Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold, black label  Country:US  Released: 1970?  Genre:Jazz  Style:Free Improvisation, Rhythm & Blues, Fusion

This is a vinyl record album of music by flutist Jeremy Steig with a gatefold cover. Not only did Jeremy play the music on the album, he also completed the album cover and liner art. He is known as one of the greatest jazz-rock flute players around, working at the beginning of the sixties with Richie Havens and backing Tim Hardin in 1967. "Legwork" has long been a "rare-groove" collectors' favorite. Eddie Gomez lays down funky grooves throughout on acoustic bass while not hesitating to swing when necessary, walking his basslines over Don Alias' drumming. Jeremy Steig uses an endless array of flute techniques, soaring above and interacting with the rhythm section. On several tracks he uses overdubbing effectively, calling and responding to his own lines. The whole album is truly eclectic, spanning funk, blues and freer excursions. His song "Howlin For Judy" is the source of the main sample in the 1994 Beastie Boys' single "Sure Shot" and "Legwork" remains one of the high points of Steig's recorded work.

The album liner mentions Jeremy's "vaulting energy and irrepressible creativeness," and states that by the time this album was released in 1969, Jeremy had played with Jim Hall, Freddie Redd, Paul Winter, Paul Bley, Tony Scott, David Amram and Bill Evans. He had also played with Jimi Hendrix, the Jefferson Airplane, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Earth Opera, Buddy Miles, the Flying Burrito Brothers and James Cotton. He was an accomplished flutist who had played in jazz clubs and rock halls from Fillmore East and West, Copenhagen, Munich, Frankfurt, Milan, Paris and London.

Tracklist

A1 Howlin' For Judy

Written By – Jeremy Steig

4:38

A2 Permutations

Written By – Eddie Gomez, Jeremy Steig

8:00

A3 Hot-Head

Written By – Don Alias, Eddie Gomez, Jeremy Steig, Sam Brown

8:50

B1 Alias (a li 'as)

Written By – Don Alias, Eddie Gomez, Jeremy Steig

4:18

B2 Nardis

Written By – Miles Davis

11:02

B3 Piece Of Freedom

Written By – Eddie Gomez, Jeremy Steig

6:02

Producer – Sonny Lester

CONDITION: LP is NEAR MINT (a couple visible scuffs) in a plastic-lined paper inner sleeve in a gatefold hard card picture sleeve in FAIR condition (edge wear, ring wear, radio station tape)