Howard Roberts - All-time Great Instrumental Hits
Ahhh, one of my favorite guirat players... Howard Roberts.
This guy just plays so so so tasty, I can't help picking up any of his stuff at the thrift stores. Such a smooth player, and he got so very little recognition... I liken his playing to early George Benson (which I have some and may put up later).
This outing, Howard takes on instrumental hits of the 60s, and takes them on he does! The only complaint I might have is this... if you have a subwoofer, it'll be dancing!
I'm not gonna say too much more, except this: I'll let the music do the talking here... I have a couple more HR LPs, when I dig em up, I'll post 'em. Enjoy!
Fullsize scans of the jacket, front, and back.
All-Time Great Instrumental Hits are there for the taking...
...and I fixed the link, too!
posted by The Impaler at 4:48 PM
2 Comments:
This seems to be the link for the Roland Kirk LP below re-posted???
11:34 PM
Very nice, but . . .
The Howard Roberts fans I reckon would rather have gone for one of his straight jazz LPs.
The only instance that I can think of when a jazz guitarist made a ("commercial" recording that all the jazz fans went for was in the 1950s when George van Eps brought out "Mellow Guitar" for Columbia - this one was superb - all standards, backed by strings (I think Paul Weston's orchestra).
I'd love to find that one today.
Regards - Mel.
3:49 AM
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