The Leon Thomas Album | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1970 | |||
Recorded | 1970 | |||
Studio | New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 39:08 | |||
Label |
Flying Dutchman FD/FDS 10132 | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
Leon Thomas chronology | ||||
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The Leon Thomas Album is the second album by American jazz vocalist and percussionist Leon Thomas recorded in 1970 and released by the Flying Dutchman label. [1] [2] [3]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Christgau's Record Guide | A [5] |
AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek stated: "On the follow-up to the mind-blowing Spirits Known and Unknown, singer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Leon Thomas decided to take a different track. Far from the sparely orchestrated ensembles of the previous works, Thomas loaded this set with jazz luminaries ... Side one is the up-tempo jazz ride, as Thomas and company rip through a host of his own tunes ... The real gem on the album is "Pharaoh's Tune (The Journey)," which comprises all of side two ... It's a breathtaking ride made all the more so by the long, jazzed-out setup of side one. Why this guy wasn't huge is a mystery.". [4] Critic Robert Christgau said "He has literally expanded the musical possibilities of the human voice. He is as powerful a jazz/blues singer as Joe Williams or Joe Turner, both of whom he occasionally resembles, as inventive a scatter as Ella Fitzgerald ... I have to suspend my disbelief and recommend this record unreservedly to anyone with the slightest fondness for jazz". [5]
All compositions by Leon Thomas except where noted