Product DescriptionNoted producer Joel Dorn discovered Harley and brought him to Atlantic Records, and to this day credits the success of the bagpiper's debut album, Bagpipe Blues, as the reason Nesuhi Ertegun invited him to become a full-time producer at the label. Dorn recorded both Bagpipe Blues and Scotch & Soul, in 1966, A Tribute To Courage in 1967, and King/Queens in 1970, before Harley parted with Atlantic.
Interestingly, all the facets of the bagpipes' sound appear on these four Atlantic albums: chanter alone, drones alone, and full bore with chanter screaming and drones wailing.
As Dorn remembers in the liner notes to this release, "Any time back then when you did something that was slightly different, the regular jazz community looked at it as if it was gimmicky, or vaudeville-like. People looked at it as an oddity or a one-off."
John Coltrane once called Harley in the middle of the night and asked for lessons on the pipes, a set of which he'd recently acquired.
Courage contains the Atlantic albums Bagpipe Blues, Scotch & Soul, A Tribute To Courage, and King/Queens in their entirety, plus the previously unreleased "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" and "Pipin' The Blues" from Sonny Stitt's Deuces Wild.
Courage: The Atlantic Recordings is available as limited edition of 3,000 copies.
TRACK LIST:
BAGPIPE BLUES
KERRY DANCERS
WHO CAN I TURN TO (WHEN NOBODY NEEDS ME)
MORE
CHIM CHIM CHEREE
SPORTIN'
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD
FEELING GOOD
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW
TAURUS THE 20TH
SCOTCH & SOUL
PASSING THE CUP AROUND
A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE
SUFUR
PIPIN' THE BLUES - Sonny Stitt
SUNNY
A TRIBUTE TO COURAGE (JFK)
SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
ALI
"X"
ABOUT TRANE
EIGHT MILES HIGH
MOON RIVER
LOVE IS BLUE
WINDY
KING
QUEENS
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?