SEALED prog jazz LP IF on CAPITOL “IF 2” orig ’70 rare LP WOW

$

35

Artist:  IF                                     

Title:   “If 2”

Label:   CAPITOL.  Stereo pressing.  Catalog number is SW-676. 

Personnel: 

John Mealing – organ, electric piano, background vocals, arrangements

Terry Smith – guitar

Jim Richardson – bass

Dennis Elliot – drums

Dick Morrissey – tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, arrangements

J. W. Hodkinson – vocals, percussion

Dave Quincy – tenor sax, alto sax, flute, arrangements.

Condition: 

STILL SEALED in original factory shrink wrap.  Shrink wrap is clean, with no writing or stickers.  Top right corner has round cut-out hole. 

Front of shrink wrap has 2 breathe-holes.  A beautiful sealed copy of this rare album!     

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Your City is Falling
• Sunday Sad
• Tarmac T. Pirate and the Lonesome Nymphomaniac  

Side Two:

• I Couldn’t Write and Tell You
• Shadows and Echos
• A Song for Elsa, Three Days Before Her 25th Birthday
  

Review: 

“The second If album came out within the same year as the first, and continues in the same distinctive jazz-rock vein the band worked on its debut.  The playing is excellent, with the sax and flute work of Dave Quincy and Dick Morrissey and carrying the group's sound to a level unmatched by other, better known contemporaries like Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears.  J. W. Hodkinson's unique vocals continue to sail through the music, while Terry Smith employs a deeper, grittier guitar tone than he used on the first LP.  The material here is not as interesting as on the earlier release, but the soloists have plenty of space to stretch out and strut their stuff over John Mealing organ/electric piano bed of chord changes.  Jim Richardson lays down some inventive basslines and drummer Dennis Elliott keeps the band on track through various rhythmic twists and turns.”

(courtesy Jim Newsom, allmusic.com.)

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