My first and my favorite Sonny Fortune album. Sadly long gone from my collection...lost, damaged, loaned and never returned,...I don't know, but it was great to listen to it again after all this time. Thank you.

my dad used to play this record for me as a baby, i'm 43 now and love it so much. maybe this is what inspired me to play music?

great musician - a virtuoso - great man, great post. blow, sonny, blow! caught him hundreds of times before, during and after this release - from NYC to SF/LA. i was in college when this came out, and he was a visiting professor, gave workshops and concerts. everything ya need to about the man is in his music - technically ambitious, emotionally charged, with warmth and artistic individuality - all evoking higher beauty and power - this man has elevated cultural discourse on planet earth~

Bought this LP back in 1976, and still have it. I'd love a CD, but alas... An Amazon reviewer Richard Ferrie wrote this: "After an amazing stint as Miles Davis' reed man, Sonny Fortune carried jazz to an extraordinary new height on this amazingly consistent, daring and yet accessible release. Multiple listenings reveal an infectious classic with a perfect balance of jazz sensibility and forward movement. Unfortunately, as happens so often in jazz, this fine music label (Horizon) folded and took some powerhouse releases, perhaps most notably this Sonny Fortune masterpiece, down with it into the realms of silence and the forgotten." Thus it is entirely possible the master tapes are lost. (I personally know of two musicians whose early master tapes are already lost. ) We can always hope a reissue is possible.

@jch6275

3 жыл бұрын

I wish they would do what they did when cds first came out and the master tapes couldn't be found ---- get an lp and adc it. Example being Elton John. With new technology for pop/crackle removal we would have a cd..... I have several lps which have never been put on cd. Jay Hoggard and Gap Mangione being examples.

Love Sonny ., especially his work with Buddy Rich...bought these albums on the strength of it and wasn't disappointed

RIP Sonny Fortune

Buster Williams is an absolute Monster on this album! One of my favorite Sonny Fortune albums! Many thanks for the download.

@andymartin8162

4 жыл бұрын

Saw him live in BNA a few years ago--40? Loved him then. Love him now.

@62maybiesjr

6 ай бұрын

This album plays in me head like ear candy. A jazz band instruction/ saxophonist from Count Basie's orchestra told me Sonny Fortune was a rhythm genius. So I can't figure out why Waves of Dreams got bad reviews. I love it, and I'm pretty sure I still have the LP.

A personal and personable friend from 1990 until the transition. First face-to-face after years of correspondence came when he headlined a jazz festival that was produced in Mobile by the Gulf Coast Jazz and Heritage Festival. Free concerts. We raised the money to take care of guest talents like Sonny. He was a consummate musical talent and the consummate gentleman. He ain't gone nowhere.

An old mix tape in the car got me here! I have this and about 3 other Sonny albums. Serengeti Minstrel (Bacchanal) is absolutely fantastic but the opening track on this album is my all-time Sonny favourite. Seeing beyond the obvious, a masterpiece. What blowing on that soprano. Must have hit every single note possible here. Masterpiece.

My dear friend the late Sonny Fortune was a hell of a player - I like his work on "Bukra" with RAK

Greetings from Europe! I recommend to you also 'Innocence', an album by Kenny Barron made two years later in which Sonny Fortune plays highly melodic motives.

Many Thanks.....loved this recording as well as "Awakening", 2 timeless gems, glad I caught him live, incredible reed and wind player......one of the best!

@bholaoates1542

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, two timeless gems that have never been reissued on CD as far as I know.

Listened to this album maybe 1000 times as a kid--love it--thank you for posting!

@sfish714

7 жыл бұрын

Me, too. Helped me graduate high school.

@andymartin2571

7 жыл бұрын

Cool, wish I'd known you--you're prob a musician.

@hivicar

5 жыл бұрын

Once saw his band at Bradley's in NYC on a double with Joe Lee Wilson. Wore this album out, along with McCoy Tyner's Song for My Lady!

@andymartin8162

5 жыл бұрын

@@hivicar Oh my God! I saw Mr Tyner in Nashville--best jazz show I have ever seen. You have exquisite tastes!

well into this music since the early 80s, yet only discovered this today

@williampregeant4244

2 ай бұрын

Same. saw him around 1991. Incredible...

Rip.Sonny

Many thanks, Euterpe. I have the vinyl record, listened for years until my turntable became obsolete. This makes me want to but a new one.

Yes!!!!!!

Did somebody say, underrated?

@softeyez6700

4 жыл бұрын

such a gem of a record, picked it at random in a record shop for $2. Best $2 I've ever spent

i need this music to be on cd now. this is a great recording that has not been put on compact disk yet???. i will be waiting for it!

@bholaoates1542

6 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I don't think it ever will. I've been waiting and searching for 20 years.

rip

this music is worth a fortune. i pay a fortune for it when comes out on cd.

He's okay.

Hey, Euterpe, is that Airto Moriera in your profile pic? :-)

@EuterpeAnhumMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@andymartin8162

4 жыл бұрын

@@EuterpeAnhumMusic Oh hell yes! Michael Davis cool find.

Have the LP

The trumpeter could have been Woody Shaw!

@robertoprzybylski7773

4 жыл бұрын

Not the great Woody bu the fabulous and underrated Charles Sullivan