Captain Buckles is an album by American saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Cotillion label.Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Cotillion Album Discography accessed September 15, 2015David Newman discography accessed September 15, 2015Enciclopedia del Jazz; David "Fathead Newman accessed November 29, 2018David "Fathead" Newman Incomplete Discography accessed November 16, 2018
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it a "soulful but relatively straight-ahead effort" and "An improvement over David Newman's preceding projects".
Track listing All compositions by David Newman except as indicated "Captain Buckles" - 4:36 "Joel's Domain" - 4:15 "Something" (George Harrison) - 3:40 "Blue Caper" (Blue Mitchell) - 4:22 "The Clincher" - 6:17 "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:04 "Negus" - 5:15
Personnel David "Fathead" Newman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute Blue Mitchell - trumpet Eric Gale - electric guitar, acoustic guitar Steve Novosel - bass Bernard Purdie - drums
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