Burt Collins

Burt Collins: Time, Space and Blues

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
April 30, 2014

Sometime after March 1969, trumpeters Burt Collins and Joe Shepley went into the studio and recorded a masterpiece. I'm betting you've never heard the album—Time, Space & the Blues—because it has never been released digitally and is rare on vinyl. Pianist Mike Abene wrote many of the songs and all of the arrangements except one—Soft Landing, which was arranged by Johnny Carisi. In fact, this is as much Abene's album as it is Collins and Shepley's. What makes this album ...
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