Norman Connors - You Are My Starship

Some time around 1984, for reasons that are long-forgotten, I was walking down North Street, Romford in the drizzle. I stopped at a proper old junk shop to look through the box of albums out front – all 10p - and picked this up.

Considering that Connors is a drummer, this isn’t a drum-dominated album. The legion of other musicians get their chance to shine on the lush, funky, soulful jazz.

When I first heard Kamasi Washington’s music, it reminded me a lot of this.

The wikipedia entry for this album makes the un-referenced claim that the cover photo is taken on a boat owned by John Wayne. This has led me to spend far too much time looking at pictures of John Wayne's yachts without being able to verify this.

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