Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 260 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 85 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 32 Mb | 5% repair rar | 24-bit remaster
© 1975, 2013 Blue Note / EMI Music Japan | TOCJ-50553
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Soul Jazz / Groove / Organ
Wicked keyboards from Ronnie Foster – and a set that really steps forward from his previous two Blue Note albums! The record really has Ronnie moving into a more rounded soul space – singing along with his keyboards, in ways that may well be aimed at making Foster the next Stevie Wonder – although still with some of the hipper, quirkier touches that make his music so great! The lineup of players is very top shelf – almost more of a CTI/Kudu session, with George Benson and Joe Beck on guitar, Mtume on congas, and lots of heavy bass from William Allen and Gary King. Foster wrote all the cuts – save for a cover of Stevie Wonder's "Tuesday Heartbreak" – and titles include "Funky Motion", which was covered by Roy Ayers – plus "Cheshire Cat", "Fly Away", "Heartless", and "Like a Child".
Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
Reuniting Ronnie Foster with guitarist George Benson, who also produced the previous On the Avenue, the keyboardist's final Blue Note date Cheshire Cat completes his immersion into the mainstream. Few records that fall into the soul-jazz genre balance both sides of the equation so carefully or so deftly. While Foster's original compositions boast the harmonic complexity and structural rigorousness of jazz, Benson's production is pure pop, with numbers including "Like a Child" sounding indistinguishable from the commercial soul fare making radio play lists during the mid-'70s. (A convincing cover of Stevie Wonder's "Tuesday Heartbreak" further blurs the genre lines.) Expanding upon ideas first explored via On the Avenue, Foster again steps behind the microphone to handle vocal chores on several tracks, proving a fine if unspectacular singer. He remains most persuasive as a composer and instrumentalist, however, articulating the infectiousness and gradations of his music with clarity and aplomb.
Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
Personnel:
Ronnie Foster - organ, keyboards, vocal
George Benson - guitar, backing vocal, producer
Joe Beck - guitar
William Allen - bass
Gary King - electric bass
Dennis Davis - drums
Mtume - conga, percussion
tracklist:
01 - Like A Child
02 - Tuesday Heartbreak
03 - Fly Away
04 - Funky Motion
05 - Cheshire Cat
06 - Heartless
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 4 from 7. December 2014
EAC extraction logfile from 9. February 2015, 17:33
Ronnie Foster / Cheshire Cat
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. February 2015, 17:33
Ronnie Foster / Cheshire Cat
Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B1LT Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "TOTALTRACKS=%numtracks%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "ALBUMARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "ALBUM ARTIST=%albumartist%" -T "COMMENT=EAC Secure Mode, Test & Copy, AccurateRip, FLAC -8" %source%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 5:00.39 | 0 | 22538
2 | 5:00.39 | 4:51.20 | 22539 | 44383
3 | 9:51.59 | 6:18.12 | 44384 | 72745
4 | 16:09.71 | 8:16.11 | 72746 | 109956
5 | 24:26.07 | 8:09.54 | 109957 | 146685
6 | 32:35.61 | 3:45.52 | 146686 | 163612
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Filename F:\audio\Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat.wav
Peak level 98.4 %
Extraction speed 5.1 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC A6A0D646
Copy CRC A6A0D646
Copy OK
No errors occurred
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Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [B6F6201A] (AR v2)
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [B6904CCD] (AR v2)
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [DEE407ED] (AR v2)
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Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 3) [88917BF8] (AR v2)
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[CTDB TOCID: zQVrU3ZOnwu9700PUvKRnYGXeG4-] found
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4 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
5 | (3/3) Accurately ripped
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==== Log checksum 61DC3CE91B23EF96EBA1AC3467357B0330A07FA6A1820336CCDF46457B6589C9 ====
Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
Ronnie Foster - Cheshire Cat (1975) {2013 Japanese BNLA Series 24-bit Remaster TOCJ-50553}
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