Charles Earland – Black Drops (1970/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:33 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings
Black Drops is an album by organist Charles Earland which was recorded in 1970 and released on the Prestige label.
Alex Henderson of Allmusic wrote, “Although not in a class with Black Talk or Living Black, this Bob Porter-produced soul-jazz/hard bop LP is satisfying and generally enjoyable”
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Charles Earland – Black Talk! (1970/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:35 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige
The young organist Charles Earland converted the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” into an anthem called “Black Talk” and came up with one of the huge soul-jazz hits of the early Seventies. In this album, Earland worked the same magic with two other pop songs, “Aquarius” and “More Today than Yesterday,” giving them the urgency and forward movement of R&B but managing to inject them with jazz values. He was greatly aided by a pair of soloists—trumpeter Virgil Jones and tenor saxophonist Houston Person—who added fuel to Earland’s fiery concept. Guitarist Melvin Sparks and the quintessential soul jazz drummer Idris Muhammad helped keep the blaze going. It is not coincidence that his blues composition, and Earland himself, were called “The Mighty Burner.”
Black Talk! went on to become an enormous hit, spending most of 1970 on the best-seller charts.
with Virgil Jones, Houston Person, Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad, Buddy Caldwell
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