The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward In one movement

In one movement

folks…and this wasn’t to be just any old show

Through the endless rains and windless chills of a northwestern winter

Recorded with the internal brief of anything goes

5 Heaven Is Here

The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward In one movementBassist Henry Franklins 1972 release for Black Jazz, The Skipper, is one of the highlights in a label catalog full of many, and his 1974 follow up, The Skipper at Home (The Skipper is Franklins nickname), lives up to its predecessors high standard and might even surpass it. Which is no surprise given that a lot of the same players are on it, including trumpeter flugelhornist Oscar Brashear, tenor soprano saxophonist Charles Owens, and pianist Bill