Culmination
by James Vincent
- Type: Album
- Released: January 1974
- Label: Columbia
- Country: United States
- Length: 50:31
- Community rating: 3.85/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Guitarist James Vincent steps out of the shadow of his extensive session work to deliver a fiercely technical jazz fusion debut. The album highlights his blistering fretwork across a set of complex, progressive compositions, backed by a stellar rhythm section that locks into complex, shifting grooves.
Genres
Descriptors: Fusion
Tracklist
- Brain Subway (6:04)
- Divinity (3:36)
- Freedom Struggle (4:56)
- Duplex (6:59)
- Algernon 1 (2:17)
- Plains of Nazca (5:57)
- Algernon 2 (5:47)
- Controlled Folly (8:40)
- Declamation (6:09)
Credits
- James Vincent - primary artist, guitar, mandola, vocals, written-by, harp, vocal
- Jean Michel Folon - cover [art], illustration
- George Marsh - drums, percussion [assorted], percussion, drums (drum set)
- Tom Dondelinger - drums, percussion [assorted], vibraphone [vibes], marimba, written-by, percussion, drums (drum set), vibraphone
- Mel Graves - electric bass, acoustic bass, double bass, electric bass guitar
- Mike Nock - electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer
- Howard Wales - organ, Hammond organ
- Martin Fierro - tenor saxophone, flute, maracas