Astral Signal (album)

Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1975 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris.

Harris covered the Robert Lamm tune "Beginnings" on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

Track listing

 * 1) "Prelude" (Jerry Peters) - 1:38
 * 2) "Summer (The First Time)" (Goldsboro) - 3:32
 * 3) "Rebato Summer" (Jerry Peters) - 0:44
 * 4) "I Remember Summer" (Jerry Peters) - 2:03
 * 5) "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" (Sly Stone) - 3:44
 * 6) "Losalamitoslatinfunklovesong" (Jerry Peters) - 3:06
 * 7) "My Roots" (Harris) - 4:15
 * 8) "Green River" (John Fogerty) - 3:01
 * 9) "Beginnings" (Robert Lamm) - 5:50
 * 10) "Feeling You, Feeling Me Too!" (M. Higgins & A. Brown) - 1:57
 * 11) "Higga-Boom" (Harvey Mason, Sr.) - 5:57
 * 12) "Love Takin'" (Jerry Peters) - 4:47

Personnel

 * Oscar Brashear - trumpet
 * George Bohanon - trombone, backing vocals
 * Keg Johnson - trombone, backing vocals
 * Sidney Muldrow - flugelhorn
 * Ernie Watts - reeds
 * Jerry Peters - piano, backing vocals
 * Gene Harris - keyboards, lead vocals
 * John Rowin - guitar
 * David T. Walker - guitar
 * Chuck Rainey - bass guitar
 * Harvey Mason - drums
 * Jim Shifflett - unknown instrument
 * Trisha Chamberlain, Ann Esther Davis, Lynn Mack, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters - backing vocals