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UK remastered reissue of the British jazz/fusion guitarist's 1988 album includes four bonus tracks, 'Avian', 'No Step', 'Snow (A Passing Phase)', & 'A Table Near The Band'. Angel Air. 2004.
WHY NOT NOW is the 1998 reissue of esteemed British guitarist Ray Russell's expert musicianship on 16 tracks, including "Outland," "Blue Shoes," "If Only," and "No Step." Personnel: Ray Russell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, tenor guitar, piano, keyboards, guitar synthesizer, kalimba, log drum, percussion); Ray Russell ; Tony Roberts (soprano saxophone); Iain Ballamy (tenor saxophone); Stuart Brooks (trumpet); Tony Hymas (piano, synthesizer, bass synthesizer); Ray Warleigh (bass clarinet); Mark Isham (trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards); Gil Evans (Fender Rhodes piano); Tommy Eyre (keyboards); Mo Foster (double bass, bass guitar, 5-string bass, fretless bass); Simon Phillips (drums); Frank Ricotti, Gary Kettel (percussion). Liner Note Author: Ray Russell . Recording information: Deronda Drive Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Last Chance Recordings, London, England; RPM Studios, New York, NY; The White House Studio, Suffolk, England. Arranger: Ray Russell . Why Not Now is a remastered reissue of an album by British jazz guitarist Ray Russell. Recorded in 1987 and originally released on the tiny Theta label under the name Childscape, Why Not Now is a unique blend of progressive jazz and space rock that manages to escape the clichés of new age music (despite the presence of some extremely dated synthesizer sounds) in favor of a calm, hallucinatory stillness that owes much to Gil Evans' '50s charts for Miles Davis. Evans, in fact, appears on the album, playing electric piano on his own composition, "The Pan Piper," and serving as the subject of the lovely closer "Sketches of Gil," completed shortly before the master arranger's death. The ... Why Not Now Music | List Price | $18.98 (You save $2.79) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Jazz Instrument, Guitar, Jazz | | Label | Angel Air | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank | 373154  | | CD Universe Part number | 6775591 | | Catalog number | 178 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 12, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Ray Russell | | Engineer | Simon Smart | | Personnel | Simon Phillips - drums Frank Ricotti Mark Isham - trumpet, flugelhorn, keyboards Tommy Eyre - keyboards Gil Evans - Fender Rhodes piano Tony Hymas - piano, synthesizer Ray Warleigh - bass clarinet Mo Foster - double bass, bass guitar, 5-string bass, fretless bass Gary Kettel - percussion Tony Roberts - soprano saxophone Ray Russell - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, classical guitar, tenor guitar, piano, keyboards, guitar synthesizer, kalimba, log drum, percussion Iain Ballamy - tenor saxophone Stuart Brookes - trumpet
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