College Tour

Personnel includes: Patty Waters (vocals); Giuseppi Logan (flute); Ran Blake, Burton Greene, Dave Burrell (piano).
Personnel: Giuseppi Logan (flute); Dave Burrell (piano); Scobe Stroman (drums).
Recording information: New York (04/1966).
This was Patty Waters's only other album besides her debut, PATTY WATERS SINGS, during her short-lived 1960s recording career for the ESP label. The tracks here were culled from several New York State college appearances featuring the ESP-label roster, hence the appearances of Burton Greene, Dave Burrell, and Ran Blake, quite a who's who of avant-garde jazz piano at the time. Perhaps it's the live setting but the musical feeling is more emotionally holistic and organic than on the dark and despairing (yet fascinating) SINGS. Waters eventually gets around to her wild, emotionally abandoned thing on the last climatic track, "Song of the One (I Love) Or Love, My Love" but she keeps it relatively concise, in contrast in the scary vocal display on "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair" from the previous LP.