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			A 4501 Ken Rhodes "Profile" ORIGINAL PRESSING
			Titel: Boogie The Profile Robyn’s Lullaby Stav By Me Nothing New The Journey Triangle EigooB Click and listen to a mp3-sample !
Ken Rhodes "Profile" LP, January 1974 Produced by Heinz Ulm with: Ken Rhodes † George Greene † , dms Rocky Knauer, bs ORIGINAL-Pressing Mint; Never played: 40 Euro Very few available !	Ken Rhodes appears also on: LP: Ken Rhodes "Profile" > LP: Sinto "Sonho Negro" > CD: "Ken Rhodes: Peace Chant > George Greene also appears on: "LP: Ken Rhodes: Profile" > CD: "Ken Rhodes: Peace Chant > "LP: Music Community" > Rocky Knauer appears also on: "LP: Rocky Knauer: Menkingen Highlites" > "CD: Rocky Knauer: Menkingen Highlites" > "LP: Ken Rhodes: Profile" > CD: "Ken Rhodes: Peace Chant > "LP: Music Community: "Music Community" >

Profile' is the first and only Ken Rhodes LP as a leader. This intimate and rare recording captures an explosive concoction between blues, jazz and a touch of funky swing. Though an acoustic performance, this LP offers overwhelming grooves, breaks as well as introspective moments. The upbeat and funky title track 'The Profile' forshadows the raw grooves of the session. The composition is driven by Rhodes' very soulful and bluesy improvasitions in a colorful dialogue with Joachim Knauer's percussive and obsessive bassline which embraces the funky rhymthms of George Greene. However, this raw "in-your-face" formula is beautifully constrated in 'Nothing New' and the piano solo 'Robyn's Lullaby' where the trio slows down to play deep, dreamy and hazy tunes.

Ken Rhodes lived in Europe during much of the 1970s, working for three years as a rehearsal pianist for the Augsburg Opera in Germany and for two years as a house musician for the Nuremberg Drama Theaters. In 1974 he recorded this trio album for my Amayana label. Ken also worked with the Bavarian Radio Big Band, Dusko Goykovich, Benny Bailey, Sal Nestico and the Al Porcino Big Band in addition to writing the music for two successful cabaret musicals. I also produced a Big Band album with him which was published on CD recently and will be available on vinyl as well soon.

Ken Rhodes died in August 2016. Read this article in the "Winston-Salem-Journal>