Captain Buckles

1971 studio album by David "Fathead" Newman

Captain Buckles

Studio album by

David "Fathead" Newman

Released

1971

Recorded

November 3–5, 1970
Atlantic Recording Studios in NYC

Genre

Jazz

Length

32:45

Label

Cotillion
SD 18002

Producer

Joel Dorn

David "Fathead" Newman chronology

The Many Facets of David Newman
(1969)

Captain Buckles
(1971)

Lonely Avenue
(1972)

Captain Buckles is an album by American saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Cotillion label.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it a "soulful but relatively straight-ahead effort" and "An improvement over David Newman's preceding projects".^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by David Newman except as indicated

"Captain Buckles" - 4:36
"Joel's Domain" - 4:15
"Something" (George Harrison) - 3:40
"Blue Caper" (Blue Mitchell) - 4:22
"The Clincher" - 6:17
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:04
"Negus" - 5:15

Personnel

David "Fathead" Newman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Eric Gale - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Steve Novosel - bass
Bernard Purdie - drums

References

^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. and Callahan, M. Cotillion Album Discography accessed September 15, 2015
^ David Newman discography accessed September 15, 2015
^ Enciclopedia del Jazz; David "Fathead Newman accessed November 29, 2018
^ David "Fathead" Newman Incomplete Discography accessed November 16, 2018
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. Captain Buckles – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 15, 2015.

David "Fathead" Newman

Studio albums

Fathead (1958)
The Sound of the Wide Open Spaces!!!! with James Clay (1960)
Straight Ahead (1961)
Fathead Comes On (1962)
House of David (1967)
Double Barrelled Soul with Jack McDuff (1968)
Bigger & Better (1968)
The Many Facets of David Newman (1968)
Captain Buckles (1971)
Lonely Avenue (1972)
The Weapon (1973)
Newmanism (1974)
Mr. Fathead (1976)
Front Money (1977)
Concrete Jungle (1978)
Keep the Dream Alive (1978)
Scratch My Back (1979)
Resurgence! (1981)
Still Hard Times (1982)
Heads Up (1987)
Blue Head (1989) with Clifford Jordan
Blue Greens & Beans with Marchel Ivery & the Rein de Graaff Trio (1990)
Bluesiana Triangle with Bluesiana Triangle (1990)
Bluesiana II with Bluesiana Triangle (1991)
Mr. Gentle Mr. Cool (1994)
Under a Woodstock Moon (1996)
Chillin' (1999)
Keep the Spirits Singing (2001)
Davey Blue (2001)
The Gift (2003)
Song for the New Man (2004)
I Remember Brother Ray (2005)
Cityscape (2006)
Life (2007)
Diamondhead (2008)
The Blessing (2009)

Live albums

Fire! Live at the Village Vanguard with Hank Crawford, Stanley Turrentine (1989)
Return to the Wide Open Spaces with Ellis Marsalis Jr. and Cornell Dupree (1990)

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)