Astral Signal

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 / Capital
Producer	Keg Johnson, Jerry Peters, Jim Shifflett
Gene Harris chronology
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (1973) Astral Signal (1975) Nexus (1975)

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

Gene Harris covered the Robert Lamm tune Beginnings on this album, one of the very few times Gene Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

1. "Prelude" (Jerry Peters) - 1:38
2. "Summer (The First Time)" (Goldsboro) - 3:32
3. "Rebato Summer" (Jerry Peters) - 0:44
4. "I Remember Summer" (Jerry Peters) - 2:03
5. "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (Sly Stone) - 3:44
6. "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Jerry 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!" (M. Higgins & A. Brown) - 1:57
11. "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
12. "Love Takin'" (Jerry Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

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