Super Session
Occupation
- Al Kooper: vocals, piano, Hammond organ, Ondioline, 12 -string guitar
- Mike Bloomfield: Guitar
- Stephen Stills: guitar
- Harvey Brooks: bass,
- Eddie Hoh: drums
Super Session is a blues-rock album of the musician Al Kooper U.S., which he had recorded independently with the two guitarists Mike Bloomfield (on the LP version 1st page ) and Stephen Stills ( 2nd page ) in 1968. It reached the top 12 in the U.S. charts.
Formation
In the spring of 1968, Al Kooper left the band Blood, Sweat & Tears after recording the first album. Kooper had reserved a studio in Los Angeles, and called Mike Bloomfield, who was separated from his band Electric Flag and whom he knew from the recordings of Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, whether at a jam session with bassist Harvey Brooks, drummer Eddie Hoh, and keyboardist Barry Goldberg wanted to participate. Bloomfield said, and they took in six hours on five pieces. When Mike Bloomfield did not appear the next day, Stephen Stills replaced him on guitar. Some of the pieces were mixed by Al Kooper later with horns.
The collaboration between Kooper and Bloomfield began with Super Session led in connection to a series of concerts and two more albums: The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (1969 ) and until 2003 to published Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes.
Style
The Mike Bloomfield page contains mainly bluesy instrumental pieces, to John Coltrane and modal jazz reminiscent His Holy Modal Majesty and a cover of Soul piece Man's Temptation by Curtis Mayfield. The inclusion of Stephen Stills is dominated by the extended to more than 11 -minute cover version of Donovan's Season of the Witch, next to a Bob Dylan piece and a psychedelic version of Willie Cobbs ' You Do not Love Me
Reception
Lindsay planners of Allmusic considers Super Session for similarly crucial to the development of rock music as the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles released a year earlier.
"In the space of mere months, the soundscape of rock shifted radically from two-and three- minute danceable pop songs to comparatively longer works with more attention to technical and musical subtleties. "
" Within a few months, the soundscape of rock has fundamentally shifted from two-to three-minute danceable pop songs to comparatively longer pieces with the emphasis on technical and musical subtleties "
Title list
Page 1 (Lead Guitar Mike Bloomfield )
Page 2 ( lead guitar Stephen Stills )
Additional musicians
- Barry Goldberg: electric piano on Albert 's Shuffle, and Stop
- Bläsergruppe: Subsequent to mixed, arranged by Joey Scott and Al Kooper