Carlos Garnett / Black Love

AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

This CD reissues an interesting if not essential set by the passionate saxophonist Carlos Garnett. The five selections (which are augmented by two previously unissued alternate takes) combine together advanced jazz, electronics (particularly from guitarist Reggie Lucas who was with Miles Davis at the time), the voices of Dee Dee Bridgewater (on one of her first dates) and Ayodele Jenkins which are often heard in the ensembles, and funky pop elements. In addition to Garnett (mostly heard on tenor and soprano), trumpeter Charles Sullivan, pianist Allan Gumbs and guitarist Lucas are the main soloists while Bridgewater is well featured on the two versions of "Banks Of The Nile." The unpredictable music overall is eccentric, sometimes overcrowded, and very much of the period but it holds one's interest.

Carlos Garnett
Black Love 
Originally released on Muse Records 1974
Extended CD Version released on Soul Brother Records 2014 Recorded January 18 and 21, 1974 at C.I. Recording Studio, NYC

Tracklist 1 Black Love 2 Ebonesque 5:25 3 Banks of the Nile 13:32 4 Mother of the Future 17:45 5 Taurus Woman 25:25 6 Banks of the Nile (alternate take) 37:39 7 Taurus Woman (incomplete alternate take) 41:01 


Personnel
Carlos Garnett (ss, as, ts, voc, arr)
Charles Sullivan (tp) Mauricio Smith (fl) Reggie Lucas (g) Onaje Allan Gumbs (p. key) Alex Blake (e-b) tracks 1, 4-7 Buster Williams (b) 2, 3 Jabali-Billy Hart (dr) Norman Connors (dr) 1, 3 -7 James Mtume (perc) Guilherme Franco (perc) Dee Dee Bridgewater (voc) 1-4, 7 Ayodele Jenkins (voc) 1-3, 7 Carlos Chambers (yodeling)