The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward the original four-piece lineup —

the original four-piece lineup — Frank Navetta

Through the endless rains and windless chills of a northwestern winter

“I think it's more open about that in a way that Miss Universe wasn't because there's so many cloaks and sleeves with the concept I built around it

Recorded with the internal brief of anything goes

In one movement

The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward the original four-piece lineup —Bassist Henry Franklins 1972 release for Black Jazz, The Skipper, is one of the highlights in a label catalog full of many, and his 1974 follow up, The Skipper at Home (The Skipper is Franklins nickname), lives up to its predecessors high standard and might even surpass it. Which is no surprise given that a lot of the same players are on it, including trumpeter flugelhornist Oscar Brashear, tenor soprano saxophonist Charles Owens, and pianist Bill