David Wertman, Sun Ensemble – Wide Eye Culture (Sunmuse Records – SUN 401 - US - 1983)

Five years after the release of his Sun Ensemble debut ‘Earthly Delights’, spiritual jazz bassist and prolific composer David Wertman returned to the studio in 1983 to record the follow-up, ‘Wide Eye Culture’.
Alongside a core trio formed by vocalist Lynne Meryl, pianist Tom McClung and Wertman himself, the Wide Eye Culture album features future Sting/Don Cherry collaborator Tony Vacca on drums and Aretha Franklin/Tony Bennet band member turned music lecturer Tim Atherton on trombone.
With the addition of McClung’s lyrical, effortless piano playing, Lynne Meryl’s acrobatic vocals and Vacca’s expressive, visceral drumming, Wide Eye Culture is an absolutely wild and fierce spiritual jazz album.

Record is strong EX very close to NM, plays flawless / Sleeve is strong EX (partially still in shrink, one light corner crease). Includes an Sunmuse label insert + Sun Ensemble leaflet.