On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) - plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The result is soulful, psychedelic, and of course, funky – at once one of the grooviest and most avant-garde albums you’ll ever hear.

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Tracklist:

Funky Skull (1969)

A1. Funky Skull Parts 1 & 2
A2. Ma, She's Makin' Eyes At Me
A3. Bold And Black
A4. Dance Of The Dervish
A5. Everybody Loves My Baby
B1. Cold Duck Time Parts 1 & 2
B2. Say What
B3. Funky Doo
B4. Silver Cycles

Melvin Jackson: Acoustic Bass / Roscoe Mitchell: Saxophone, Flute / Tobie Wynn: Saxophone / Pete Cosey: Guitar / Phil Upchurch: Guitar, Bass / Jodie Christian: Piano, Organ /James Tatum: Tenor Saxophone / Byron Bowie: Saxophone, Flute / Bobby Pittman: Saxophone / Steve Galloway: Trombone / Donald Towns: Trumpet / Tom Hall: Trumpet / Lester Bowie: Trumpet, Flugelhorn / Leo Smith: Trumpet, Flugelhorn / The Sound Of Feeling: Vocals