David Fathead Newman & Ellis Marsalis & Cornell Dupree

Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2025
Release Date: 4/12/2025
Format: 2 x LP
Label: SteadyBoy Records
Quantity: 950
Release type: 'RSD First' Release

David "Fathead Newman", Ellis Marsalis and Cornell Dupree along with James Clay, Leroy Cooper, Dennis Dotson, Chuck Rainey and George Rains join forces to make a live recording. Recorded at the Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth, TX, the music combines elements of jazz and R&B indigenous to Texas.
What makes this title important? A unique gathering of jazz/R&B musician greats. This recording was released Oct. 1 1990 on Amazing Records. In 1991, great reviews started coming in from major publications across the USA. The record won the N.A.I.R.D. Traditional Jazz Album of the Year in 1991 and charted on the BIllboard Jazz charts. Released only on CD, Return to the Wide Open Spaces has never enjoyed a vinyl release until now.

Tracklist
1) INTRODUCTION
2) BUSTER'S TUNE
3) HARD TIMES
4) 13TH FLOOR
5) THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE
6) THESE FOOLISH THINGS
7) TWO BONES & A PICK
8) CITY LIGHTS
9) LUSH LIFE
10) NIGHT IN TUNISIA