Satisfaction - Satisfaction VINYL LP FOX031
A delightful reminder of the days when progressive rock and jazz seemed destined to forge a life-long partnership, Satisfaction was the 1971 debut album by the latest incarnation of veteran trumpeter Mike Cotton's Mike Cotton Sound, fed through a name change (and logo) that must surely have had the Rolling Stones looking twice.
Teaming up with producer David Hitchcock and fronted by vocalist Lem Lubin (ex-Unit 4+2), the brief appeared to be to follow the early path of Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears, but with sufficient space left over for a few more idiosyncratic diversions. And overall it works, at least within the so-subjective parameters of period jazz-rock, a genre that rarely scaled the peaks it deserved to, but never quite sank to the depths that it was capable of, either.
tracklist
A1 Just Lay Back And Enjoy It
A2 She Follows The Band
A3 Cold Summer
A4 Sharing
A5 Call You Liar, Liar
B1 You Upset The Grace Of Living When You Lie
B2 Just Like Friends
B3 Go Through Changes
B4 Love It Is
B5 Don't Rag The Lady
B6 Gregory Shan't
