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Show jRcord review Hendrix style back Two," RCA 4783. In it, ever facet of both forms are explored and exploited ex-ploited by he and his band of musicians. mus-icians. Jimmy is an accomplished vocalist, pianist, timbale player, tenor and alto saxist. The members of the group are Gerry Thomas on trumpet and piano; Doug Gibson, bass; Harry Jensen, guitar; Lenny Fridie Jr., on conga drums; and Bobby Manigault, on drums. The album is produced by Castor, Cas-tor, and that is why most of it is excellent. ex-cellent. Easy listening pieces comprise com-prise most of the album with a few humorous Castor compositions filing fil-ing the gaps in between. The most beautiful selection on side two is the group's version of Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," an instrumental instru-mental with a solo throughout by Castor un tenor sax. Castor's traae-mark traae-mark song, "Say Leroy", has been redone on this LP, only this time it is followed by "The Creature from the Black Lagoon's Your Father". The finale song, a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, isn't too savory, yet smacks of Castor innovation. Good, easy listening is available on this LP. Performance: Mellow Recording: Good. by VERDO THOMAS' Chronicle Staff Has Jimi Hendrix been reincarn-;ted, reincarn-;ted, reborn or just efficiently im-ated? im-ated? Whatever the case may be, ;,e new LP by the Velvet Turner roup raises the question: Can a roup that sounds almost as good 5 the former Jimi Hendrix Experi-ice Experi-ice survive and gain success in a orld of rock music where the fame the late great Jimi Hendrix still ligns supreme? Only time will tell, ;ong with sufficient publicity, hard ork and a little improvement in yle on the group's behalf. Over I, the performance of the group as made this, their first album, an 'mazing and fantastic venture. The leader of the group, Velvet urner, is Black and like Hendrix js a smooth, somewhat haunting ice quality that sounds exactly e, and could easily be mistaken ir, the famed guitarist quite easily, he bass player, Prescott Niles, is eat and the drummer, Time Mc-overn, Mc-overn, holds a beat that flows ith the music and blends together form the unique new sound that e group possess. Although their lund is unique, much of it has sen formed form the long line of jndrix compositions, and although irner has written most of the tunes on the album himself, much of it sounds similar to Hendrix style. Turner's guitar playing is fairly good and comes close to matching up with Hendrix, yet it cannot be heard clearly on the album because the bass and the drums have been recorded re-corded to play over it. However, credit can be given to Turner (he produced the LP himself) him-self) for having done such a fine job with the selections on the album. al-bum. It would be hard to believe that one could not enjoy every song on it. Technical quality of the LP is superior, with some distortion, and evidence of over-dubbing on small segments in a few of the selection. Performance: Fantastic Recording: Excellent The return of the Jimmy Castor Bunch should come as no surprise to those followers of good soul music and jazz. Jimmy Castor has been playing the "soul circuit" for years, and has finally done another one of his rarely appearing LP experiments ex-periments again. He used to do most of them on the Mercury label, now RCA has him doing them. The title of his latest lat-est endeavor into the ever widening widen-ing world of jazz and soul is "Phase |