Awakening
by Sonny Fortune
- Type: Album
- Released: 1975
- Label: Horizon
- Country: United States
- Length: 40:32
- Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Saxophonist Sonny Fortune steps away from his high-profile gig with Miles Davis to record the intensely passionate 'Awakening'. The album seamlessly balances driving post-bop energy with deeply rhythmic, percussion-heavy spiritual jazz improvisations.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, progressive, improvisation, instrumental
Tracklist
- Triple Threat (10:25)
- Nommo (9:38)
- Sunshower (5:14)
- For Duke And Cannon (2:58)
- Awakening (12:17)
Credits
- Sonny Fortune - primary artist, alto saxophone, alto saxophone, cowbell, chimes, percussion [small percussion], alto saxophone, flute, claves, shaker, written-by, flute [with wa-wa pedal], shaker, percussion [small percussion]
- John Snyder - creative director
- Dorothy Rennie - illustration [back cover illustration]
- Robert Krogle - illustration [front cover illustration]
- Wayne Dockery - bass
- Billy Hart - drums
- Kenny Barron - piano, written-by, electric piano [fender rhodes electric piano]
- Charles Sullivan - trumpet, flugelhorn