Reggie Johnson: First Edition

Date:	Thursday, September 6, 1984
Label/Number:	The Jeremiah Robinson Company 19,000
Personnel:	Reggie Johnson (b) Bill Kirchner (ss, as, ts, fl) Danny Hayes (tp, flhn) Marc Cohen (p) Terri Lyn Carrington (d) Ronnie Wells (vo) Don Sickler (arr)
Tracks:	Everything I Love / Summersong / Laverne Walk / Close Enough For Love / Flashback / Who Cares / Passos / Balloons
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Sally Longhi
Liner Notes:	Dan Morgenstern
Research Comments:	Dan Morgenstern’s liner notes state: “Reggie decided to make his own album because ‘All the records I’ve done weren’t really representative of my playing. I didn’t get to solo enough, or not on the right tunes, and most of all, how the bass sounded didn’t seem right.’ Sound matters a great deal to Reggie Johnson. ‘The ideal sound should be unamplified – acoustic bass with no pick-up. Most records today present a sound that’s closer to a Fender bass than to acoustic. But Rudy Van Gelder has reached a happy medium – he feeds the sound from the pick-up right into the board. I call him the master of jazz recording engineers.’” Some of these tracks were recorded the following day.
Status Notes:
Sources:	MFZ Bill Kirchner