Astral Signal

Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1975 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris.

Astral Signal
Studio album by Gene Harris
Released	1975
Recorded	The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA, August 13, 1974
Genre	Jazz Hard bop Jazz-rock
Length	40min 34sec
Label	Blue Note / Capitol
Producer	Keg Johnson, Jerry Peters, Jim Shifflett
Gene Harris chronology
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1973) Astral Signal (1975) Nexus (1975)

Harris covered the Chicago tune "Beginnings" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

1. "Prelude" (Jerry Peters) - 1:38
2. "Summer (The First Time)" (Bobby Goldsboro) - 3:32
3. "Rebato Summer" (Peters) - 0:44
4. "I Remember Summer" (Peters) - 2:03
5. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (Sly Stone) - 3:44
6. "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Peters) - 3:06
7. "My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
8. "Green River" (John Fogerty) - 3:01
9. "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) - 5:50
10. "Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" (Monk Higgins, Alex Brown) - 1:57
11. "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
12. "Love Talkin'" (Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

• Gene Harris - keyboards, lead vocals
• Oscar Brashear - trumpet
• George Bohanon - trombone, backing vocals
• Keg Johnson - trombone, backing vocals
• Sidney Muldrow - flugelhorn
• Ernie Watts - reeds
• Jerry Peters - piano, backing vocals
• John Rowin - guitar
• David T. Walker - guitar
• Chuck Rainey - bass guitar
• Harvey Mason - drums
• Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
• Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - backing vocals