Chase / Ennea / Pure Music

Being the son of a professional trumpet player I was ALWAYS surrounded by great music and musicians. I first heard this albums on vinyl and then on cassette. The remaster job has been done very well but could be better. Now the important bit.... These albums are AMAZING!! What's not to love about them? Four ridiculously great trumpet players and one of the funkiest rhythm sections ever!! Just buy it. You will not be disappointed!!

I can confirm that this is encoded for "SQ Quadraphonic". Please see the attached image of the first 30 seconds of the track "Open Up Wide" as the sound of the trumpets fly around the room.

A great blasting sab ( ok 3 slabs) of blistering trumpet led jazz rock. \a total rush. Essential

Reached much earlier.Thanks a lot.

This is fabulous. If I played trumpet I'd love to be able to play like this!

Three top albums, great music, great band sadly long gone.

perfect

He could make a trumpet sound like a synth well before the latter could do the honours for brass and the late Bill Chase's enormous range stands out on this comprehensive 2CD overview of his full throttle nine-piece jazz rock act's three early 70s albums for CBS. A more frenetic sounding version of label-mates Blood Sweat & Tears, where compositionally Chase lacked sufficient relief from its wall-of-brass attack on the senses, it made up for with some breathtaking musicianship. The eponymous debut is the strongest and the most enduring for today's consumer on the strength of its jazz purity. Ennea includes the soaring 'So Many People', responsible for opening Chase's music to a broader audience by virture of inclusion on of one CBS's high-selling budget compilation albums of the day, but Chase's ambitious side-long paeon to Greek mythology is patchy. Post-bankruptcy, he reformed the band for 'Pure Music', a funkier more commercial affair with the dating twitchy synth of the period, but also graced by a beautiful slow-mover in Chase's modern jazz instrumental 'Twinkles' (probably named after one of his many girlfriends). This charismatic talent and most of his band were downed in a fatal aircrash in 1974 on a US tour. A welter of potent music backed by exhaustively informative booklet notes from John Tobler has been assembled here in a bargain package well worth the... pursuing.