Circles - William S. Fischer

[Teasing the Korean]

Does anyone have this record, and if so, what do you think of it?

I am listening on YouTube but my laptop speakers are kind of shot.  Sounds great anyway.  

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Teasing the Korean

[JSngry]

I like him in general, intesting guy. This is a good record. He did another one a few years later that is kinda weird. I like it too.

[Teasing the Korean]

Just now, JSngry said:

I like him in general, intesting guy. This is a good record. He did another one a few years later that is kinda weird. I like it too.

Thanks.  Do you remember what that other album is called?

[JSngry]

Several more, actually...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/697017-William-S-Fischer

The one I'm know is Akelarre Sorta.

1972

[mikeweil]

Circles is nice enough for me to keep it over all the years. A rather rockish groove, with two guitars, but jazzy enough with Carter and Cobham. The four cellos give it anspecial touch. The two vocals are okay, although the second tune is a little too lightweight for my taste. But the opener, Patience is Virtue, has a haunting quality with the cello riffs. Fischer did many arrangements for Atlantic that are all interesting. No nonsense, never tending towards bombastic sounds like Don Sebesky, to the point - add what is necessary and what enhances the music without getting in the way of the soloists.

[Teasing the Korean]

His score to the 70s flick Born to Win is excellent. 

[JSngry]

He did a fine job with Gene Ammons too.

[Teasing the Korean]

On 7/27/2019 at 7:14 AM, mikeweil said:

Fischer did many arrangements for Atlantic that are all interesting. 

Here is what Wiki says.  Are there others not listed here?

He worked extensively as an arranger and session musician for jazz and popular music recordings, working with Joe Zawinul, Herbie Mann, and Les McCann in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he was associated with Yusef Lateef, Roberta Flack, Gene Ammons, and Junior Mance among others. He led his own group in the 1970s (which recorded an album in 1970) and recorded with Roland Kirk in 1977 and with Pharoah Sanders in 1982.^[1]

[HutchFan]

I like Fischer's work on this Fathead Newman LP:

 

Here are Fischer's writing and arranging credits on discogs.

 

Edited August 21, 2021 by HutchFan

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Here are Fischer's writing and arranging credits on discogs.

It seems like there should be an anthology for this guy, along the lines of the Axelrod compilations.

[HutchFan]

Just now, Teasing the Korean said:

It seems like there should be an anthology for this guy, along the lines of the Axelrod compilations.

I'd buy it. 

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Just now, HutchFan said:

I'd buy it. 

Ditto.

[HutchFan]

I think someone should do an anthology for Richard Evans too. 

Like the Fischer compilation, it'd probably sell ten copies -- but both albums would be full of interesting music!   

 

[Teasing the Korean]

7 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I think someone should do an anthology for Richard Evans too. 

Like the Fischer compilation, it'd probably sell ten copies -- but both albums would be full of interesting music!   

Maybe they could do a Richard Evans/Richard Hazard anthology, so they could sell 20 copies.

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Richard Hazard

That's a name that's new to me.

But I see on his Wikipedia entry that he composed the music for Mannix.  Well, that's something, right there.  

 

[Teasing the Korean]

3 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

That's a name that's new to me.

But I see on his Wikipedia entry that he composed the music for Mannix.  Well, that's something, right there.  

He arranged a lot of groovy late-60s things, and I tend to mix him up with Richard Evans.  He worked with Sergio Mendes, among others. 

[BFrank]

I always enjoyed this album that he played on, produced and wrote some of the songs

[JSngry]