It's a beautiful modal piece that starts out like a ' Prince Of Peace' Sanders-style song - if Leon Thomas were to suddenly begin yodelling it wouldn't feel at all out of place.

This appears to be his first rhodes recording, but he switches to electric with aplomb, instantly understanding the different dynamics and referencing Hancock-like patterns in his solo work.īonner switches to acoustic piano for what is probably my favourite track, 'Peace, K.D.', a dedication to trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who had died in December of 1972. The other strong presence here is keyboardist Joe Bonner, fresh off a series of Pharoah Sanders' albums - 'Black Unity', 'Live at the East' and 'Village Of The Pharoahs'. The following year would see Vick return to more 'jazz-rooted' soul-jazz projects like Shirley Scott's 'One for Me' and Larry Willis' 'Inner Crisis', which would in turn lead to the more intimate and acoustic Vick album 'Don't Look Back', but for now he wasn't going to let go of his wah-wah pedal. 'The Power of Feeling' seems to have been recorded somewhere between the first and second Compost albums, and can perhaps be seen as an attempt to further some of the commercial ambitions and sonic qualities of Jack DeJohnette's project, albeit more in the 'composed' vein of the burgeoning CTIstyle of accessible jazz-related music than the party funk represented on the Compost albums (particularly the first one, on which Vick seems to be just jamming along). The album came out on Bernard Purdie's short-lived Encounter Records in 1973 - see the base of this post for an (almost complete) label discography. Vick hadn't put out an album in five years before releasing 'The Power of Feeling'in 1973 under the pseudonym 'Sir Edward'. I gave an overview of the career of saxaphonist/flautist Harold Vick when posting 'Don't Look Back' a few weeks ago, which led me to track down the album before that one.

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