Harrison / Blanchard – Crystal Stair
(Columbia Records 1987 C40830)
Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some slight wear to edges and import punch hole top left
Inner Sleeve has a split in the side
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Donald Harrison Jr. (born June 23, 1960) is an African-American jazz saxophonist and the Big Chief of The Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Terence Oliver Blanchard (born March 13, 1962) is an American trumpeter, pianist and composer. A jazz musician, he has also composed film scores and operas. He started his career in 1982 as a member of the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, then The Jazz Messengers. He has composed more than forty film scores and performed on more than fifty. A frequent collaborator with director Spike Lee, he has been nominated for two Academy Awards for composing the scores for Lee’s films BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). He has won five Grammy Awardsfrom fourteen nominations.
Crystal Stair is an album by American Jazz musicians Donald Harrison Jr. andTerence Oliver Blanchard under the name Harrison/Blanchard.
Track listing
| A1 | Softly As A Morning Sunrise | 6:02 | |
| A2 | Crystal Stair | 6:47 | |
| A3 | God Bless The Child | 4:11 | |
| A4 | Endicott | 7:09 | |
| B1 | Slam | 5:05 | |
| B2 | Grace Of God | 8:31 | |
| B3 | Duke’s Revenge | 2:58 | |
| B4 | Forbidden Dreams | 6:20 | |
| B5 | Neoclassicism | 3:25 |
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Donald Harrison
- Art Direction – Joel Zimmerman
- Bass – Reginald Veal
- Drums – Carl Allen
- Edited By – Delf
- Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Dennis Ferrante
- Engineer [Chief Engineer] – Tim Geelan
- Engineer [Chief Mix Engineer] – Patrick “Grampa” Smith
- Executive-Producer – Michael Wells
- Liner Notes – Lofton A. Emenari, III
- Mastered By – Lee Herschberg
- Other [Boom Operator] – Ronnie “Neb” Carbo
- Photography By – Ken Nahoum
- Piano – Cyrus Chestnut
- Producer – Delfeayo Marsalis
- Trumpet – Terence Blanchard
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