Fire Eater - Rusty Bryant (Vinyl)

Vinyl LP pressing of this 1971 album from the jazz saxophonist. An unsung monster in the pantheon of exceptional soul-jazz outings from the Prestige catalog, Fire Eater finds Bryant grooving hard in a combo that featured Idris Muhammad on drums, Wilbert Longmire on guitar, and both Bill Mason and Leon Spencer Jr. On organ. One of the top music websites awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a session that has Bryant stretching out his meaty tone and improvisations a bit further than usual. This is respectable soul-jazz with a lot of funk, but no fusion, employing the tenor sax-organ-guitar-drums lineup". The album was produced by Bob Porter and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder.