AMAYANA A 4501 ORIGINAL PRESSING
			A 4501 Ken Rhodes "Profile" ORIGINAL PRESSING
			Titles: Boogie The Profile Robyn’s Lullaby Stay By Me Nothing New The Journey Triangle EigooB Click and listen to a short sound-bite !
Ken Rhodes "Profile" LP, January 1974 Produced by Heinz Ulm ORIGINAL-Pressing Mint; Never played: 35 Euro Very few available !	with: Ken Rhodes †, George Greene †, Rocky Knauer

More of Ken Rhodes on: Single: Ken Rhodes "Song For Strayhorn" > Single: Ken Rhodes "Plays Miles Davis + Gerry Mulligan" > Single: Sinto "Feeling Right" > Single: Ken Rhodes "Blue Steel Blus" > LP: Ken Rhodes "Profile" > LP: Ken Rhodes "Profile" In Memoriam > LP: Sinto "Sonho Negro" > CD: Ken Rhodes: "Peace Chant" > Ken Rhodes in Wikipedia > Winston-Salem Journal in Sept 2016 >

More of George Greene on: Single: Ken Rhodes: "Profile" > Single: Ken Rhodes "Plays Miles Davis + Gerry Mulligan" > Single: Ken Rhodes "Blue Steel Blues" > Single: George Greene "Soul-Jazz One and Two" > LP: Ken Rhodes: "Profile" > LP: Ken Rhodes "Profile" In Memoriam > CD: Ken Rhodes: "Peace Chant" > George Greene in Wikipedia >

More of Rocky Knauer on: LP: Ken Rhodes: "Profile" > LP: Ken Rhodes "Profile" In Memoriam > LP: Music Community: "Music Community" > LP: Music Community: "Sweet Bulbul" > LP: Rocky Knauer Septett and The Contemporary Music Orchestra: "Menkingen Highlights" > CD: Rocky Knauer Septett and The Contemporary Music Orchestra: "Menkingen Highlights" >

Profile' is the first and only Ken Rhodes LP as a leader. This intimate and rare recording captures an explosive concoction between blues, jazz and a touch of funky swing. Though an acoustic performance, this LP offers overwhelming grooves, breaks as well as introspective moments. The upbeat and funky title track 'The Profile' forshadows the raw grooves of the session. The composition is driven by Rhodes' very soulful and bluesy improvasitions in a colorful dialogue with Joachim Knauer's percussive and obsessive bassline which embraces the funky rhymthms of George Greene. However, this raw "in-your-face" formula is beautifully constrated in 'Nothing New' and the piano solo 'Robyn's Lullaby' where the trio slows down to play deep, dreamy and hazy tunes.



Heinz visiting Ken in August 2010

Ken Rhodes lived in Europe during much of the 1970s, working for three years as a rehearsal pianist for the Augsburg Opera in Germany and for two years as a house musician for the Nuremberg Drama Theaters. In 1974 he recorded this trio album for my Amayana label. Ken also worked with the Bavarian Radio Big Band, Dusko Goykovich, Benny Bailey, Sal Nestico and the Al Porcino Big Band in addition to writing the music for two successful cabaret musicals. I also produced a Big Band album with him which was published on CD recently and will be available on vinyl as well soon.

Ken Rhodes died in August 2016. Read this article in the Winston-Salem-Journal