Craig Harris

F-Stops is a programme of original compositions by trombonist Craig Harris, recorded and mixed in New York on 24 and 25 June 1993 and released by Soul Note in 1994. At its centre is the title suite, seven movements numbered from 1st Flow to 7th Flow that together run just over thirty minutes. It is framed by the opening Say Essay, more than fourteen minutes long, and five further pieces. Harris plays trombone and didgeridoo and also sings.

The septet session took place at Sear Sound with tenor saxophonist John Stubblefield, baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, Darrell Grant on piano and keyboards, Calvin Jones on acoustic and electric bass, drummer Tony Lewis and guitarist Bill White. Harris produced it with Bruce Purse, Jon Rosenberg and Gennaro Carone are credited as engineers and Flavio Bonandrini as executive producer. The movements of the suite vary a good deal in length, from the minute of the 6th Flow to the seven minutes of the 3rd Flow, so it plays as a chain of short and long episodes rather than a single span. After it come D.A.S.H. and Generations, then the two longest pieces of the second half, High Life at about nine and a half minutes and the closing Burundi at over eight, with the brief A Soft Shoe between them. With tenor and baritone saxophones beside the trombone, the front line leans toward the low register.

This is the Soul Note CD 121255-2, first released in 1994.