Calvin Keys - Proceed With Caution

Remastered vinyl edition

Sublime sounds on the 1974 Black Jazz release from the Bay Area guitarist

With liner notes featuring an interview with Calvin Keys

Bay Area jazz guitar legend Calvin Keys released his debut solo record, Shawn-Neeq, in 1971, and it remains one of the most beloved albums on the Black Jazz label. But that record was mere prelude for 1974's Proceed with Caution; this time around, the arrangements were more complex, the instrumentation more diverse. In short, a quantum leap forward; indeed, as Calvin tells Pat Thomas in his liner notes for the release, "I started going to the Los Angeles School of Music studying orchestrations and I was putting it to use!"

And he recruited the band to fulfill his ambitious musical visions to their fullest, including legendary drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, fellow Black Jazz mainstays Henry Franklin on bass and Kirk Lightsey on keyboards, and Charles Owens (Horace Tapscott, Buddy Rich, Terry Callier, John Mayall) on sax and flute. Despite being hugely collectible, Proceed with Caution has never been reissued on vinyl before; our newly remastered edition is available here on black vinyl standard LP.

 

Side A

1. Proceed with Caution

2. Tradewinds

3. Efflugence

Side B

1. Aunt Lovey

2. Renaissance

3. Night Cry

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