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Chase (album)

Chase was the debut album by jazz-rock fusion band Chase

Bill Chase

Bill Chase was an United States trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase....
.

Bill Chase

Bill Chase

Bill Chase was an United States trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase....
was already a well-established jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
player when he decided to form his own band. He recruited three other veteran trumpet players and vocalist Terry Richards, backed them with a rock

Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
rhythm section

Rhythm section

A rhythm section is the musicians in a popular music musical band or musical ensemble who establish the rhythmic pulse of a song or musical piece, and who lay down the chordal structure....
, and created a band which merged both jazz and rock

Rock music

Billboard Hot 100

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Chase was the debut album by jazz-rock fusion band Chase

Bill Chase

Bill Chase was an United States trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase....
.

Bill Chase

Bill Chase

Bill Chase was an United States trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase....
was already a well-established jazz

Jazz

Trumpet

Rock music

Rhythm section

Rock music

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
chart starting in May of 1971. This success drove album sales to more than 400,000 units - unusually high for a jazz artist. The album charted for a total of 26 weeks, peaking at #22.

Long out of print in the U.S., the album was re-released in Japan

Japan

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on CD

Compact Disc

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in 1997.

Track listing

"Open Up Wide" (Bill Chase) – 3:48
"Livin' In Heat" (R. Turner) – 2:54
"Hello Groceries" (D. O'Rourke) – 2:56
"Handbags and Gladrags
Handbags and Gladrags

"Handbags and Gladrags" is the name of a song written in 1967 by Mike d'Abo, who was then the lead singer of Manfred Mann. d'Abo describes the song as "saying to a teenage girl that the way to happiness is not being trendy....
" (Mike d'Abo
Mike d'Abo

Michael David d'Abo is an England singer and songwriter, best known as the former lead vocalist of Manfred Mann.D'Abo, the son of a London stockbroker, was educated at Harrow School and Selwyn College, Cambridge....
) – 3:23
"Get It On" (B. Chase/Terry Richards) – 2:59
"Boys and Girls Together" (Jim Peterik
Jim Peterik

Jim Peterik is an United States musician and songwriter. Jim is best known as one of the members in the band Survivor and as vocalist and songwriter of the hit song "Vehicle" by The Ides of March ....
) – 2:56
"Invitation to a River" – 14:13

"Two Minds Meet" (L. Raub/B. Chase)
"Stay" (L. Raub/B. Chase)
"Paint It Sad" (L. Raub/B. Chase)
"Reflections" (ad lib)
"River" (T. Richards/B. Chase)

Personnel

Bill Chase
Bill Chase

Bill Chase was an United States trumpet player and leader of the eponymous jazz-rock fusion band Chase....
- trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
Ted Piercefield - trumpet, lead vocal on "Handbags and Gladrags" and "Boys and Girls Together"
Alan Ware - trumpet
Jerry Van Blair - trumpet, lead vocal on "Hello Groceries"
Phil Porter - keyboards
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
Dennis Johnson - bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
, vocals
Angel South - guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
, vocals
Jay Burrid - percussion
Terry Richards - lead vocals except as noted above