Deodato - Prelude (1972)

From The Lost Record Covers Club

Eumir Deodato was a chosen keyboard session player in jazz circles and here gets his colleagues, Billy Cobham, Hubert Laws, Ray Barretto, Stanley Clarke to feature on his most recognised solo album.  The killer track is the version of the Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra" used in Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey in it's original form.  CTI rarely featured in the charts and this came as a surprise as radio strations both in the US and UK picked up on the marathon track featured here.  The single was an edited version.
CTI - CTI 6021