Melody Maker - Front Runners (1975)

From The Lost Record Covers Club

This is a CBS sampler that was sold via Melody Maker.  It was my first copy of the then fairly little known "Born To Run" but I also loved finding "Hang Ups" - I went out and bought Hancock's "Manchild" album  on the back of it.  It also introduced me to "Building Fires" which is wonderful for it's harmonies.  Sailor, SB and Q, Bill Withers and EW and F were already members of my collection. I have never seen this anywhere else and cannot remember where I found it.

CBS - SPR 107

Michel Colombier - Michel Colombier (1979)

From The Lost Record Covers Club

With a line-up of Tom Scott; Herbie Hancock; Michael Boddicker; Airto; Steve Gadd; Jaco Pastorius; Lee Ritenour; Michael Brecker this is a class act.  Colombier is a keyboard player and this (I think) was his first album. How it ended up on Chrysalis, a British, mainly rock and pop label, I have no idea.  I came across this when working in the pressing plant in Walthamstow in '79 and after a few listens was hooked.  Not usually my thing but it has stayed in my collection for 40 years so I must have some affection for it.  I do visit it now and again with mixed reactions! But then that's me and jazz generally. Not on CD.

Chrysalis: CHR 1212