In 1970, I was a young jazz guitar player working at RCA studios in New York. This particular date was a session for an album titled “Deirdre Wilson Tabac”. Sonny Casella was the visionary producer. From this album emerged a hit record called “I Can’t Keep from Cryin’ Sometimes”. Throughout the years, this recording has become somewhat of a cult classic especially in Europe. One copy of this record sells for what has been reported to be $400.00 to $600.00.

What is interesting about this production was Sonny Casella’s vision to contrast a rock – blues guitar player with a jazz guitar player. Whenever a lead guitar was featured, it would alternate between the rock sound and the jazz sound. As such, it may well be the first major release that fused jazz and rock together, pioneering the term fusion.

The song is a very hip jazz waltz type of pop – jazz tune with great vocals and funky, jazzy horns. I just recently came across this song and it brought me back to the beginnings of my career. Recording in New York at that early age was a bit intimidating – but I survived and went on with my career.

I hear in the jazz guitar solos and fills the seeds that developed into my current CD “Freefall” on the Dreambox Media label. I’ve included a Youtube link to this classic recording.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording the jazz guitar parts so long ago.