Spirit Sensitive

by Chico Freeman

Spirit Sensitive cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: India Navigation
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:03:33
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Taking a brief detour from his fiery avant-garde roots, 'Spirit Sensitive' finds Chico Freeman delivering a stunning, deeply reverent album composed primarily of jazz standards. Supported by a stellar rhythm section including Cecil McBee, Freeman's tenor saxophone work is incredibly lyrical, warm, and emotionally direct. The session proves his immense versatility and profound understanding of the classic jazz ballad tradition.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, ballad, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Autumn in New York (4:15)
  2. Peace (5:39)
  3. A Child Is Born (7:42)
  4. Lonnie's Lament (7:24)
  5. You Don't Have to Say You're Sorry (4:19)
  6. Wise One (7:00)
  7. It Never Entered My Mind (6:21)
  8. Close to You Alone (8:52)
  9. Carnival (7:36)
  10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (4:21)

Credits

  • Chico Freeman - primary artist, tenor saxophone
  • Cecil McBee - bass, composed by
  • Billy Hart - drums
  • Famoudou Don Moye - drums
  • John Hicks - piano
  • Vernon Duke - composed by
  • Horace Silver - composed by
  • Thad Jones - composed by

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