Doug Carn - Adam's Apple (Remastered) (2019) [Hi-Res]

Further distanced in time from John Coltrane's spiritual new-jazz and the influential second Miles Davis quintet, Doug Carn showed a close affinity with r&b when recording his fourth and final Black Jazz album Adam's Apple. Sharing his interest in r&b was a platoon of committed, resourceful jazz musicians including young star-in-the-making Ronnie Laws, who'd worked with Earth, Wind & Fire before that band's big commercial breakthrough. Of the others, ace guitarists Nathan Page and Calvin Keys had acquired intimacy with the soulful properties of African-American music of the time performing with the premier jazz organist Jimmy Smith.

Doug Carn - leader, keyboards (piano, electric piano, organ, Moog synthesizer), vocals
Joyce Greene, John Conner - vocals
Ronnie Laws - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Thurman Green - trombone
Nathan Page, Calvin Keys - guitar
Big Black - congas, bongos, percussion
Harold Mason - drums
Darrel Clayborn - Fender bass
Gerald Brown - acoustic bass