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Ronnie Foster Interview
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Ronnie Foster's return to Blue Note Records is an event of synergistic quintessence, completeness, and cool. The organ great's dynamic new album, Reboot, arrives upon the 50th anniversary of his 1972 Blue Note debut Two Headed Freap, which is also being reissued this year as part of the label's Classic Vinyl Series.
The album opens with the title track, "Reboot," which he describes as "organ music... but slightly different. This is where my head is at now—and where I'm going." His journey to that destination rides on a winding melody, not one but two bridges, and a rock-steady groove kicked down by his son, drummer Chris Foster, one of four cuts he plays on here, rendering Ronnie: One Proud Papa.
"Isn't She Lovely" is a steady grooving cover of Ronnie's old friend Stevie Wonder's classic song set to a backbeat shuffle, another full circle moment given that Ronnie played on Songs in the Key of Life.
On this episode, you'll hear the title track "Reboot" and "Isn't She Lovely."
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