Norman Connors - The Essential Norman Connors - The Buddah/Arista Years (2018)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Slew Foot
02. Valentine Love (feat. Michael Henderson & Jean Carn)
03. Saturday Night Special
04. Dindi (feat. Jean Carn)
05. Maiden Voyage
06. We Both Need Each Other (feat. Phyllis Hyman & Michael Henderson)
07. So Much Love
08. You Are My Starship (feat. Michael Henderson)
09. Betcha By Golly Wow (feat. Phyllis Hyman)
10. Kwasi
11. Phoenix
12. Once Again
13. Once I've Been There
14. Romantic Journey (Remastered)
15. For You Everything
16. Give the Drummer Some

CD2
01. Captain Connors (12" Version)
02. Say You Love Me
03. This Is Your Life
04. Stella
05. Wouldn't You Like to See
06. Listen
07. Your Love
08. Disco Land
09. Handle Me Gently
10. Invitation
11. Be There in the Morning
12. Take It to the Limit (12")
13. You Bring Me Joy
14. I Don't Need Nobody Else
15. Melancholy Fire
16. You've Been on My Mind
17. She's Gone
18. Mr. C


Like Roy Ayers, George Benson, and Patrice Rushen, Norman Connors is best known for his major R&B hits but started out as a jazz improviser. The drummer/composer was born and raised in Philadelphia, where he lived in the same neighborhood as Bill Cosby and became interested in jazz when he was only a child. As a kid in elementary school, Connors was exposed to jazz extensively thanks to such schoolmates as drummer Lex Humphries and the younger brother of bassist and Jazz Messenger-to-be Spanky De Brest. Connors was in junior high when he began sneaking into jazz clubs and sat in for Elvin Jones at a John Coltrane gig. At 13, he first got to meet his idol, Miles Davis, and started expressing his admiration for the famous trumpeter by dressing like him. Connors went on to study music at Philly's Temple University and the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Gigs with Jackie McLean, Jack McDuff, and Sam Rivers followed, and he was first recorded as a sideman when Archie Shepp employed him on his 1967 Impulse! session Magic of Ju-Ju.

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