The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward Recorded with the internal brief

Recorded with the internal brief of anything goes

5 Heaven Is Here

and two albums’ worth of music materialised

the original four-piece lineup — Frank Navetta

The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward Recorded with the internal briefBassist 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