Bill Connors - Assembler CD

 Excellent Fusion Release.
"Riveting", "Visceral". Excellent, creative, versatile, diverse stuff from ex Return to Forever guitarist Bill Connors. Kinda like a Grittier Allan Holdsworth might be a good way to describe Connors. Classic Fusion Album by a largely overlooked and highly underrated guitarist.
Submitted by jmreisch (Long Island, NY, USA) 
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 UNDERRATED
I'VE HAD THIS ALBUM FOR A LONG TIME,A GUITAR CLASSIC ,IN THE AND BILL CONNORS HAS BEEN ONE OF MY FAVOURITE GUITAR PLAYER -ALONG WITH ALAN HOLDSWORTH AND SCOTT HENDERSON- EVER SINCE I HAVE SEEN HIM WITH RETURN TO FOREVER IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES.I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY HIS SOUND AND HIS PLAYING.HOWEVER WHAT MOTIVATED ME TO SEND THIS REWIEW IS THE FACT THAT KIM PLAINFIELD MUST BE THE MOST UNDERRATED DRUMMER ON THE PLANET,HE IS A MASTER.SO BUY THIS ALBUM AND ANYTHING ELSE BILL CONNORS HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH,YOU' LL HAVE THE VERY BEST.
Submitted by DOMINIQUE POUCHOL (VICHY,FRANCE)
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 Maybe the best of the bunch?
As other reviewers have stated, you really can't go wrong with any Bill Connors album. It's kind of a mystery to me as to why he is so underrecorded (something John Scofield might want to look into). In any event, Assembler, IMO, is a bit tighter than the other recordings--I'm purposefully avioding saying this is head and sholders above the others, because they are really all good power trio (mostly trio, anyway) discs. Sure seems to me that the new Tone Center disc will be a no risk investment. Nice to have something to look forward to in these jazzless times we live in (okay, there is SOME good new recording worth our time and money, but it's no accident that the reissue movement is in full effect). Hey Bill, please, don't do a 20 years between recordings thing--maybe YOU could learn a little something from Sco regarding prolifics!
Submitted by Fred - Herpfauna (Elkins Park, PA)
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