Album: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
Artist: The Ed Palermo Big Band
2025 Sky Cat Records
Digital


Ed Palermo: bandleader
Cliff Lyons: alto sax
Phil Chester: alto sax, soprano sax, soprano sax solo (10, 14)
Bill Straub: tenor sax, tenor sax solo (13)
Ben Kono: tenor sax, tenor sax solo (6, 12)
Barbara Cifelli: baritone sax
Ronnie Buttacavoli: lead trumpet
John Bailey: trumpet
Augie Haas: trumpet
Bobby Spellman: trumpet
Charley Gordon: lead trombone
Mike Boschen: trombone
Matt Ingman: bass trombone, tuba
Bruce McDaniel: vocals (1, 18, 19), guitar
Katie Jacoby: violin, violin solo (7, 15)
Bob Quaranta: piano, piano solo (16)
Ted Kooshian: keys
Paul Adamy: bass
Ray Marchica: drums
Mike Keneally: guitar (18), backing vocals (18)


Producer: McDaniel
Executive Producer: Wifty Loog Weasel III
Recorded at Peaceful Waters Music, Pound Ridge, NY by Wayne Warnecke
Mixed and mastered at Rock Ridge Recording, New Orleans, LA by McDaniel
Illustrations by Matteo Kai Brennan
CD art & design by Hugh Brennan


Tracks:
1. "Resolution" [John McLaughlin] (1:13)
2. "Black Hole Sun intro/Bodhisattva" [Chris Cornell; Walter Becker/Donald Fagen] (1:07)
3. "There Comes a Time" [Tony Williams] (3:01)
4. "Tarkus" [Keith Emerson/Greg Lake] (1:03)
5. "VROOOM" [Adrian Belew/Bill Bruford/Robert Fripp/Trey Gunn/Tony Levin/Pat Mastelotto] (4:03)
6. "Long Distance Runaround" [Jon Anderson] (5:34)
7. "Snake Oil" [Tony Newton] (3:48)
8. "G-Spot Tornado/Resolution/Jingo" [Frank Zappa/McLaughlin/Babatunde Olatunji] (2:40)
9. "VROOOM VROOOM" [Belew/Bruford/Fripp/Gunn/Levin/Mastelotto] (1:17)
10. "There's No Mystery About My G-Spot" [Chick Corea/Frank Zappa] (2:25)
11. "Spanish G-Spot Tornado" [Corea/Zappa] (0:22)
12. "Mystic Knights of the Sea" [Williams] (3:18)
13. "On the Milky Way Express" [Wayne Shorter] (5:11)
14. "Take a Pebble" [Lake] (3:21)
15. "One Word" [McLaughlin] (1:03)
16. "The Fish" [Chris Squire] (2:17)
17. "Fred" [Allan Holdsworth] (1:46)
18. "Black Hole Sun" [Cornell] (4:46)
19. "Pictures of a City" [Fripp/Peter Sinfield] (6:39)

Arrangements by Palermo (1-18), McDaniel (19)


Notes: Released April 18, 2025 digitally on Bandcamp and on CD. As per an uncredited, humorous voiceover on (3), the album represents a battle between British and American musicians, between prog and fusion. (HP, 21 Apr 25)

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