Edgar Winter

This album is not what you expect. Edgar is Johnny Winter's brother and organ/piano
player -- yet this album is definitely not blues or rock 'n roll. The closest classification that
fits is free-form jazz -- but even that, while explaining the musical framework, doesn't take
into account Edgar's distinctive vocal style. He sounds like Mose Allison on some cuts
("Back in the Blues") but on most of the album Edgar's frenetic, high-pitched voc... More >

Better you should graft bebop harmonies and solos onto a rock (or even artrock) trunk for your jazz fusion than arrange rock and not-so-rock songs for a Stan-Kenton-goes-to-Nevada bouquet. If only Edgar didn't try and conceal his mild-mannered vocal tendencies behind that shriek. And if only he scatted and soloed like a brother. (Grade: C)