Gary Foster – Elegy
Gary Foster – Wistful Samba
Gary Foster – What Is This Thing Called Love Versions 1 (Alto) + 2 (Dual Alto)
Clearly, I’ve been taking a mental break from sharing music…given my recent past, I can’t entirely promise that I’ll be more consistent sharing music, but the desire is certainly still here. This post should have come up at the end of 2018, as it’s been my tradition to share the final bit of vinyl I find for each year. This time around I was clearly in a pensive mood, and put back a few funkier and wilder things for this, the debut album for reedman Gary Foster.
While I can’t recommend later work from Foster, this album is a solid, moody, modal excursion. Even the samba track on here is “Wistful!” There’s a real elegance to the playing on “Elegy” and “What Is This Thing Called Love” that I appreciate, especially on the relatively rare rainy day here in LA (though we did have more than a few recently). Subconsciously (yes, pun intended), this type of album was precisely what I needed to close out 2018. 2019 has already gotten off to a great start, and there is definitely so much more music to share in this new year.
Cheers,
Michael