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Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland 07/22/78

Pharoah Sanders ts
Bobby Lyle p
Willie McCoy p
Jaques Burwick Keys
Duke Jones tp
Gregg Hill el gtr
Alex Blake b
Norman Connors dr, perc
Patro Bass perc
Lawrence Killian perc

Thanks, Matt!!! Cool stuff!

Norman was all avant-garde before that "Starship" single. I have an LP of him playing with Sam Rivers from the mid-70s.

Sam Rivers Streams was Montreux 1973.
http://www.discogs.com/Sam-Rivers-Strea ... ase/461890


You Are My Starship was 1976 ...
http://www.discogs.com/Norman-Connors-Y ... ase/333868

... and this performance was 1978. It isn't really a straight line progression away from jazz towards pop. All of these musical expressions from Connors are brilliant and when I acquired this video I was actually hoping it was the "pop soul" stuff. I was pleasantly surprised to discover it to be more along the lines of the experimental, avante-gard end of things. I still hope to find some pop-soul stuff from Connors. Check out the list of musicians on the Starship sessions - I mean WOW!



Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Carter Jefferson, Gary Bartz
Arranged By – Norman Connors (tracks: B3, B4), Onaje Allan Gumbs (tracks: A2, B2)
Art Direction [Creative Packaging Direction] – Milton Sincoff
Backing Vocals – Mareatha Stewart*, Sharon Redd, Tasha Thomas
Bass – Anthony Jackson (tracks: A2, A3, B2), Michael Henderson
Bass [Second] – Larry McRae (tracks: B4)
Cello – Doc Kirksey*
Congas – Don Alias, Neil Clarke
Drums – Norman Connors (tracks: B3)
Electric Piano – Onaje Allan Gumbs
Engineer – Ron Johnson
Engineer [Assistant] – Mike Frondelli*, Neal Teeman, Tim Sadler
Engineer [Second] – Don Murray, Joe Sidora*
Flute – Art Webb
Guitar – Keith Loving
Guitar [Second] – Lee Ritenour (tracks: A1)
Harpsichord – Hubert Eaves*
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Melodica – Tom Scott
Percussion – Don Alias, Neil Clarke
Photography By – Ed Caraeff
Piano – Hubert Eaves*
Producer – Jerry Schoenbaum, Skip Drinkwater
Producer [Assistant] – Norman Connors, Onaje Allan Gumbs
Remix – Don Murray, Skip Drinkwater, Tommy Vicari
Synthesizer [Mini-moog] – Ian Underwood
Synthesizer [String Arp] – Ian Underwood, Onaje Allan Gumbs
Timpani – Norman Connors (tracks: B3)
Trombone – Earl McIntyre
Trumpet – Shunzo Ono*
Typography [Lettering] – Tom Nikosey
Viola – Mary Ellen Ewing*
Violin – Gayle Dixon Clay*, John Blake, Noel Pointer
Vocals – Michael Henderson (tracks: A1), Norman Connors (tracks: B3), Phyllis Hyman (tracks: A1, A2)

That's quite list! I knew Michael Henderson was involved in the record but not all those other guys. Gary Bartz, Onaje Allen Gumbs, Anthony Jackson.... Ian Underwood! And they close the album with "The Creator Has A Master Plan," very cool. Also didn't realize Norman went back and forth between the jazz and pop stuff like that.