Don't Look Back

Vick is among the more mainstream artists who recorded for Strata East, with a leaning towards soul jazz, found on another Strata East title with Shirley Scott, the excellent One For Me. (Harold Vick’s  “Keep On Moving on”)

Somewhere between Boogaloo and Cosmic Conciousness is Mainstream and this is reassuringly it. Vick was a funky, bluesy tenor who paired well with heroes of the Hammond –  Brother Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Richard “Groove” Holmes, Johnny Hammond and Big John Patton. He led just one title  for Blue Note, 4138 Steppin’ Out, in 1963, compared to around a dozen soul jazz sessionswith McDuff, for Prestige.