[DVDA][QU] Calvin Keys - Proceed With Caution! - 1974 (Soul-Jazz, Black Jazz Records)

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Number of tracks:  6
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1. Arranged By – Al Hall, Jr. , Calvin Keys , David Durrah
   
2. Bass – Nyimbo Henry Franklin
   
3. Drums – Ndugu Leon Chancelor
   
4. Electric Piano – Thalmus Kirk Lightsey
   
5. Engineer [Recording] – Jim Mooney
   
6. Executive-Producer – Gene Russell
   
7. Graphics – Grafica Studio, Inc.
   
8. Lacquer Cut By – BB
   
9. Leader, Guitar – Ajafika Calvin Keys
   
10. Liner Notes – Chuck Siler
    
11. Percussion [Ittisels, Sertasizem (Obe), Papali], Bongos – Owen Marshall
    
12. Photography By – Jay Powell
    
13. Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Charles Owens
    
14. Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Cha Che Oscar Brashear

Calvin Keys (born February 6, 1943) is an American jazz guitarist, known for the several albums he released for Black Jazz Records.
Keys has performed and recorded with Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal, John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Marshall, Sonny Stitt, Pharoah Sanders, Joe Henderson and Leon Williams.
- en.wikipedia.org

Whereas the earlier black jazz album Shawn-Neeq had its share of riff-based funk, Calvin Keys' second outing Proceed with Caution! (1974) sticks close to straight-ahead jazz verities with the 30-something guitarist in the studio with seven similarly young, on-the-rise musicians including Charles Owens (saxophones, flute), Oscar Brashear (trumpet), Al Hall Jr. (trombone), Kirk Lightsey (electric piano), Henry Franklin (bass), and Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (drums). Keys can really play the guitar, easefully and intelligently with unfaked feeling. The man rivets our attention at all times. "Proceed with Caution," like the other tracks an original composition, is a veritable feast of organized craftmanship, with a dreamy, chord-based Wes Montgomery mode at the song's start and finish bracketing long passages of fast, driving licks originating in bebop. Rendering flute and electric piano solos almost superfluous, Keys conjures up musical drama that invites multiple listens. Next up, "Tradewinds" finds the Omaha native treasuring the piece's attractive melody before embarking on creative flights that herald his certainty of purpose. A similar assurance marks his urgent playing in aptly-titled "Effulgence," which also benefits from trombone, electric piano, and soprano saxophone solos. Startlingly, about a minute into this song, emanated revelations beginning channeling through his fast fingers on the strings; Something similar can be heard from transcendentalist Carlos Santana in parts of his Welcome and Love Devotion Surrender albums, both released around the same time as Proceed with Caution!.
-- soundohm.com