The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward Through the endless rains and

Through the endless rains and windless chills of a northwestern winter

and two albums’ worth of music materialised

and possibility of those early days So young and so gone

“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

The Skipper at Home: Remastered Vinyl LP Eleri Ward Through the endless rains andBassist 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