Chico Freeman, Von Freeman

CD version. You'll Know When You Get There is the album Chico Freeman recorded in New York in August 1988 for Black Saint, released in 1989 with his father Von Freeman as guest on tenor saxophone and piano. Father and son had already shared a record, the 1982 Fathers & Sons with the Marsalis family. The same year also brought The Mystical Dreamer, credited to Brainstorm featuring Chico Freeman, and this session leans the same way: alongside his saxophones and bass clarinet he is credited with an IVL Pitchrider MIDI controller and a Roland D50 synthesizer.

The sessions took place on August 12, 19, 22, 29 and 31, 1988 at Sound Ideas Studios, engineered by Jon Rosenberg and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini. Geri Allen plays piano and keyboards, Eddie Allen trumpet and flugelhorn, Don Pate bass and Victor Jones drums, with Norman Hedman on percussion and Joel Brandon whistling. The programme mixes pop and soul with originals. Eddie Allen arranged Liberian Girl, the Michael Jackson song that opens the album, and with Freeman he arranged Marvin Gaye's Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology). The two men also wrote the title piece, at a little over eight minutes the longest track. Freeman's own No. 7 (For Andrew Hill) salutes the pianist, The Ditty is credited to Freeman and Brandon, and House Of Dreams comes from trombonist Dick Griffin. The album closes on a two-minute I Remember You, the Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger standard.

This is the Black Saint CD 120128-2, nine tracks running about 47 minutes, of the album first released in 1989.