Chris Wood - Evening Blue (4 CD, 2017) [FLAC]

  

Perhaps best known for co-founding Traffic with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Dave Mason, Chris Wood was self taught on Saxophone and Flute although he was also an accomplished keyboards player and bass guitarist too. And a fine artist as well; from Stourbridge College of Art, Chris was accepted by the Royal Academy in 1965 where he ultimately faced the choice – music or art.





The 4 CDs included music drawn from Chris’s entire career with his solo recordings taking centre-stage. We also featured alternate takes and mixes as well as previously unheard compositions and never-before-heard home demos and other sketches.

Naturally, there was music from Traffic as well as recordings by Gordon Jackson, John Martyn, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Bobby Whitlock, Airforce, Martha Velez, Nick Drake, Shawn Phillips and others.

Evening Blue also featured Chris’s previously unheard collaborative work with The Wailers’ keyboard player, Tyrone Downie as well as Rebop Kwaku Baah, Remi Kabaka, The Sky, Dr John & Jeanette Jacobs. Tracks from the only known-to-survive recordings by the short-lived Mason, Capaldi, Wood & Frog line-up were also included as was a brand new 2015 collaboration – Maps with Chris Wood.
 


Evening Blue: CD1


  1. Song For Peter (2.56)
  2. See No Man Girl (5.28)
  3. Letter One (2.09)
  4. Barbed Wire (3.56)
  5. Don’t It (6.03)
  6. Jam In Butter (4.34)
  7. Moon Child Vulcan (4.19)
  8. Tone Blind Rhythm Deaf (3.29)
  9. Birth In A Day (8.05)
  10. No. 4 B Side (1.56)
  11. Barbed Wire – take #3 Alt-R mix (3.59)
  12. Birth In A Day – take #3 CW mix (5.13)
  13. Song For Pete – studio rehearsal take #2 (4.23)
  14. See No Man Floral Dance (7.25)

ALL tracks previously unreleased.

Evening Blue: CD2

All tracks marked * are previously unreleased.

  1. Piano #1 – Chris Wood (1.42)*
  2. Love – Traffic (3.15)
  3. Outside In – John Martyn (8.22)
  4. Come Here Sweet Man – Martha Velez (5.11)
  5. Flutered – Chris Wood (2.14)*
  6. Early In The Morning (live at the Royal Albert Hall) – Airforce (11.33)
  7. Song For Freedom – Gordon Jackson (4.50)
  8. Automatic Reggae – Tyrone Downie (3.26)*
  9. Sullen Moon (Sinewave take #1) – Chris Wood (3.06)*
  10. Zagapam (take #2) – Rebop Kwaku Baah (3.53)*
  11. Jarn 1 (take #3) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (6.32)*
  12. There In The Greenbriar (take #2) – Sky (4.12)*
  13. Diggin’ On You (home demo) –Dr John, Jeanette Jacobs and Chris Wood (3.01)*
  14. Just For You – Dave Mason (2.16)
  15. The Fame Groove – Chris Wood (3.52)*
  16. Lamb – Chris Wood and Stuart Carr (1.12)*
  17. No Time To Live – Traffic (5.20)

Evening Blue: CD3

  1. Piano #2 – Chris Wood (2.12)*
  2. On A Theme Of… Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (6.44)*
  3. Steph’s Tune – Tyrone Downie (5.05)*
  4. 40,000 Headmen – Traffic (3.15)
  5. So Much In Love With You – John Martyn (2.49)
  6. Cinnamon Girl (first rehearsal run through) – Spiteri and Chris Wood (2.29)*
  7. Tragic Magic – Traffic (6.39)
  8. Polo No. 1 (sketch) – Chris Wood (1.36)*
  9. Game Called Life – Bobby Whitlock (4.15)
  10. Snakes And Ladders – Gordon Jackson (5.54)
  11. Out Of Tune With The Universe (home demo) – Jeanette Jacobs, Dr John and Chris Wood (2.51)*
  12. Meteorite – Remi Kabaka (4.12)*
  13. Ley It Up – Chris Wood and Vinden Wylde (2.42)*
  14. Sold On Down The Line – Crawler (3.50)
  15. Waiting On You (live at the BBC) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (3.36)*
  16. For RFK, JFK, MLK – Shawn Phillips (5.50)
  17. Sullen Moon (demo) – Chris Wood (5.24)*
  18. John Barleycorn – Traffic (6.27)
  19. Zola – Chris Wood (1.28)*

Evening Blue: CD4

  1. Piano #3 – Chris Wood (3.45) *
  2. What To Look For… with Maps and Chris Wood (7.01) *
  3. Vulcan (the Aurora collaboration) – Chris Wood and Spiteri (4.34) *
  4. Coloured Rain – Traffic (2.45)
  5. Sing To Me Woman – Gordon Jackson (5.25)
  6. Dealer – Traffic (4.25)
  7. Mourning Sad Morning – Free (5.05)
  8. Evening Blue – Traffic (5.18)
  9. Feelin’ Alright? (live at the BBC) – Mason, Capaldi, Wood and Frog (3.44)*
  10. All Black Festival – Remi Kabaka (3.24)*
  11. Three Hours – Nick Drake (5.10)
  12. Steph’s Dub – Tyrone Downie (3.49)*
  13. Spring Too – Chris Wood and Stuart Carr (1.52)*
  14. Rainmaker – Traffic (7.48)
  15. Seagull – Jim Capaldi (4.20)
  16. Sylvanæ – Chris Wood (0.37)*
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