Album Notes

Frank Senior (vocals)
Saul Rubin (electric guitar,keyboards)
Bob Mover (tenor sax,alto sax,soprano sax)
Richard Clements (piano)
Eric Lemon (bass)
Hassan JJ Shakur (bass)
Jacob Melchior (drums)
Efrat (violin,viola)

This remarkable debut recording by Frank Senior is the result of a grass roots effort to bring this great talent to light. Clearly jazz still finds a home in some of the small project studios that dot Manhattan, where independent recordings are made by whatever means just because the art demands it. At Zebulon Sound and Light, the generous-natured master guitarist Saul Rubin nurses a steady stream of recordings for deserving artists to fruition in his room. Here Saul worked with Frank and Frank�s longtime associate, drummer Jacob Melchior, and together they developed a very special disk, far too special not to receive a wider audience.

Frank Senior has more than the vocal talent to make this record shine; he�s got the heart and the feeling, and each note comes forth rich, resonating from the deepest fibers. Music makes this man come alive. One can only imagine; perhaps his experience of music is especially vivid, like a transmodal kaleidoscope of sonic colors. But one thing is for certain, and that is that the soul that Frank Senior brings to his music is 100% genuine, and that�s the fact that counts.

Luke Kaven
July 2008