Bill Plummer - And The Cosmic Brotherhood

Incredibly great – and one of the best of the late 60s trippy jazz albums on Impulse! Bill Plummer plays electric sitar with the “Cosmic Brotherood”, a group that includes Tom Scott on saxes and electronics, Carol Kaye on Fender bass, Milt Holland on tabla, and Mike Craden on a heck of a lot of weird percussion. The tunes are groovy, “eastern” sounding, and have a modal jazzy approach that’s similar to some of Scott’s work, that of Chico Hamilton, Gabor Szabo, or some of the other groundbreaking, genre-crossing Impulse artists. Includes the totally great “Journey To The East”, which has this mad trippy recitation…

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