THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,898) Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood — “The Look of Love”
Dig this “[r]aga take” (Soul Strut, https://www.soulstrut.com/Archive/bill-plummer-cosmic-brotherhood) on Burt Bacharach’s chestnut by Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood. Sitars keep falling on my head. Ouch!!! Jonny Zchivago’s reaction to the LP? —
“The world of Psychsploitation wasn’t confined to Pop Music. Jazz also had a large go at cornering the burgeoning Psych trade. I remember vividly first seeing this album in a crate . . . in the mid-nineties. A bloke in a business suit with no shoes or socks on, playing a Sitar!?
https://dieordiy2.blogspot.com/2019/08/bill-plummer-and-cosmic-brotherhood.html?m=1
As Soul Strut says, “Far out, man!” (https://www.soulstrut.com/Archive/bill-plummer-cosmic-brotherhood)
The Listening Post Blog writes:
Already an accomplished jazz bassist at the time of the album’s release, Bill Plummer turned heads on the Cosmic Brotherhood with heavy Eastern and psychedelic influences that challenged contemporary ideas about jazz. . . . The result is an album that reflects a musician at the peak of his creative powers, unafraid to explore new ideas and sounds that meld into a cohesive, spectacular album.
Soul Strut adds:
Bill Plummer is best known for his session work as an upright acoustic bass player jamming with the likes of Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street), Nancy Wilson, etc. In 1968 he released this oddball, groovy far eastern jazz record on the famed Impulse! label. Here Plummer explores the electric sitar as well as holding it down on double bass.
https://www.soulstrut.com/Archive/bill-plummer-cosmic-brotherhood
Light in the Attic Records sells it:
Welcome to the mind-expanding 1968 jazz recording of Bill Plummer and The Cosmic Brotherhood—where Eastern and psychedelic influences meld together to produce one of the trippiest jazz albums on Impulse Records. This LP is a . . . sonic travelogue, with the pop-psych spoken-word sitar freakout of “Journey To The East” to Bill Plummer’s swinging, rapid fire/cool jazz compositions, to his covers that go straight to the heart of any 60’s genre-crossing jazz fans. Featuring an incredible who’s who of the high-caliber talent bubbling over in the Los Angeles music scene at the time: Carol Kaye (legendary bass player of The Wrecking Crew), Maurice Miller (drummer in The Jazz Corps), Dennis Budimir (guitarist with Chico Hamilton Quintet, Ravi Shankar & Frank Zappa), Mike Lang (Piano with Flamin’ Groovies & Hal Blaine), Tom Scott (Saxophone with Gabor Szabo & Thelonious Monk), Ray Neopolitan (Bass for The Doors & Leonard Cohen), Milt Holland (Percussionist with The Wrecking Crew & Captain Beefheart), Bill Goodwin (Drums for Mose Allison & Tom Waits)
Psychedelicized plumbs Plummer’s depths:
Plummer was born in . . . Boulder, CO where he trained on piano, string bass, trumpet, marimba and vibraharp. At the age of 20, he moved to L.A. to pursue a career in jazz and picked up the sitar under the instruction of Ravi Shankar. In 1966, Plummer toured with Tony Bennett and Miles Davis and formed the Jazz Corps, an experimental ensemble that included Maurice Miller and Lynn Blessing. His love for Jazz and Eastern music came together on the . . . LP Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood where he blended the sitar with wind instruments, drums, stings and bells. . . . Plummer went on to become a very successful session musician, performing on a slew of movie and TV scores including The French Connection I & II, Bullitt, I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, Mission Impossible, The Bionic Woman and Mannix.
https://psychedelicized.com/playlist/c/the-cosmic-brotherhood/
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