A Wilder Alias - Jackie and Roy

[Teasing the Korean]

The recent threads about CTI made me think of this hard-to-find Jackie and Roy album on CTI.

Does anyone know this record? As I wrote in my (anonymous) Amazon review, imagine if the Carpenters or Brasil '66 were hired to write prog music for a European industrial film in the mid 70s, and it might sound like this. It is unlike anything I've heard by them.

It is unrepresented on any of the CTI CD comps I've accumulated over the years. The album itself is available only on pricey non-US releases.

Curious to hear any thoughts.

[JSngry]

I've only hear Time & Love. Well, only heard the first song and a half, couldn't dig that particular chilli at that particualar time. Is this one better and/or different than that one?

[Teasing the Korean]

Like night and day. Totally its own thing. It's like J&R completely shed everything they were about and reinvented themselves for one record. Five long tracks, all originals. Lots of wordless vocals, modal grooves, some free blowing, biting Wurlitzer electric piano. In a blindfold test, you would never guess this was J&R, except for perhaps the one tune with lyrics that Jackie sings. Records like this shake up the stereotype about CTI. Unfortunately, they get left off the compilations too.

This has to be one of my favorite oddball albums from the 1970s. And that is saying something, believe me.

Edited December 31, 2010 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

I would like to give that one a shot, then.

[marcello]

It looks intriguing!

Alec Wilder songs, I guess?

Jackie Cain & Roy Kral* - A Wilder Alias

Label:CTI Records

Catalog#:CTI 6040

Released:1974

A1 A Wilder Alias 5:10

A2 Niki´s Song 6:21

A3 Waltz For Dana 4:18

B1 The Way We Are 6:08

B2 Good And Rich 10:40

Credits

Bass - Harvey Swartz*

Drums - Steve Gadd

Engineer - Rudy Van Gelder

Flute - Hubert Laws

Piano - Roy Kral

Producer - Creed Taylor

Saxophone - Joe Farrell

Vibraphone - Roy Pennington

Vocals - Jackie Cain , Roy Kral

[bichos]

oh, what a wonderful album by my all time favourites "jackie & roy"!! everything they made is wonderful and that was the sound of the 70´s. btw it has nothing to do with alec wilder (this time not). all compositions are by roy kral. one is with richard druz and one with jackie cain.

keep boppin´

marcel

p.s.: it´s a shame that there is only one(!) video of them in the world wide web on youtube..