There’s something both endearing and inspiring about a musician who is just as comfortable hammering out meat & potatoes bar band tunes (see below) as he is living in the altered reality of Sun Ra. That man is Terry Adams. As one of the masterminds behind NRBQ — wait, you don’t have any of their records? Shame on you! — he’s made a metric ton of impossibly great rock records. But then there’s his other side. That of “out there” jazz. You don’t really get a hint of this if you listen to NRBQ’s stuff. This record features Terry on celesta and prepared piano. Sometimes, you’ve just got to take a chance.
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