Mercury Records Collection: Limelight LS-86071: Funky Skull

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LS-86071: Funky Skull / Melvin Jackson

Label Type :	pink Limelight
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	LS 86071A- M1 1-1 MR
	SIDE-B	LS 86071B- M1 1-1 MR

Comments

cut-out hole on the top-right, but not so serious.

Inside The Groove

A legendary spacy-funk album full of electronically enhanced string bass.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Melvin Jackson, a legendary bassist whose most famous works are in the Eddie Harris band, finally cut his own album. The sound that can be heard on this album fully reflects the emerge of Heavy Soul and Funk in the late 1960s thru early 1970s. On this album, he plugs his acoustic bass into electric filter box (for guitar) and he plays so spacy phrases. Very impressive funk sounds here. A-1 and B-1 surely proves his unique talents.

An unusual funky album in the Limelight label's last era.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-45824	Funky Skull, Parts 1 & 2 (M. Jackson)	4:53
A-2	2-45825	Ma, She's Makin' Eyes At Me (C. Conrad - S. Clare)	0:51
A-3	2-45826	Bold And Black (E. Harris)	7:12
A-4	2-45827	Dance Of The Dervish (K. Chaney)	6:39
A-5	2-45828	Everybody Loves My Baby (S. Williams - J. Palmer)	2:20
SIDE-B
B-1	2-45829	Cold Duck Time, Parts 1 & 2 (E. Harris)	5:03
B-2	2-45830	Say What (M. Jackson)	4:49
B-3	2-45831	Funky Doo (M. Jackson - R. McBride)	4:53
B-4	2-45832	Silver Cycles (M. Jackson - E. Harris)	9:26

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

B-1 might be done by the latter personnel. Still investigating...

A-1, B-1:
Melvin Jackson (b) with:
Donald Towns (tp), Tom Hall (tp), Bobby Pittman (ts), James Tatum (ts), Tobie Wynn (bs),
Pete Cosey (g), Phil Upchurch (g, el-b), Morris Jennings (ds).

A-2, A-3, A-4, A-5, B-2, B-3, B-4:
Melvin Jackson (b) with:
Lester Bowie (tp, flh), Leo Smith (tp, flh) Steve Galloway (tb), Roscoe Mitchell (as, bass sax, fl), Byron Bowie (ts, fl)
The Sound Of Feeling (vocal group), Maurice Miller (vo on A-3), Jodie Christian (p, org), Billy Hart (ds).

Produced by Robin McBride.

Recorded at 8-Track & Audio Finishers Studio, Chicago, IL
and Amigo Studios, North Hollywood, CA
maybe on July 1969.