Heavy Axe
by David Axelrod
- Type: Album
- Released: 1974
- Label: Fantasy
- Country: United States
- Length: 34:25
- Community rating: 3.62/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Legendary producer and arranger David Axelrod returns to Fantasy Records with a lush, heavily orchestrated jazz-funk album featuring an array of top-tier session musicians, including Cannonball Adderley and Johnny 'Guitar' Watson. 'Heavy Axe' balances Axelrod's signature cinematic string arrangements with deep, heavy rhythm section grooves.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion, orchestral, funky, groove-laden, string arrangements, instrumental
Tracklist
- Get Up Off Your Knees (3:38)
- Cast Your Fate To The Wind (3:27)
- You're So Vain (4:20)
- My Family (4:46)
- Mucho Chupar (3:13)
- Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing (3:42)
- It Ain't For You (4:21)
- Everything Counts (6:54)
Credits
- Jackie Kelso - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute, alto flute
- William Green - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute
- Nathan Gershman - cello
- Walter Rower - cello
- King Errisson - congas
- Roy McCurdy - drums
- George Duke - electric piano, keyboards, piano, synthesizer
- Billy Fender - guitar