No joke -- this album is a little glimpse of heaven. This reviewer has imagined the latter as having (among many things) its own version of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, circa 1964-1965, with Fred Neil, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Gene Clark, the Serendipity Singers, Art & Paul, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, and a hundred other acts playing every night, any night; the music on this album makes me think of something like I'd probably hear if I walked in on a Blues Project rehearsal in that celestial sphere. It is the Blues Project (possibly without Al Kooper, who says he didn't make the session, regardless of what the CD and our ears say), with Sun Ra on the Hammond B-3 organ, John Gilmore and Marshall Allen on tenor and alto, respectively, Pat Patrick on bass, and Jimmy Owens and Tom McIntosh on trumpet and trombone. And apart from the first track and the packaging (which probably cost more, for the licensing of the Batman images, than the session did), none of it has anything to do with Batman or comic books.http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1141325,00.html
01 Batman Theme 2:16
02 Batman's Batmorang 2:51
03 Batman and Robin Over the Roofs 6:50
04 The Penguin Chase 2:43
05 Flight of the Batman 2:09
06 Joker Is Wild 1:58
07 Robin's Theme 3:05
08 Penguin's Umbrella 3:05
09 Batman and Robin Swing 2:42
10 Batmobile Wheels 2:08
11 The Riddler's Retreat 2:12
12 The Bat Cave 2:47
Pat Patrick: Bass
Sun Ra: Organ (Hammond)
Marshall Allen: Sax (Alto)
Roy Blumenfeld: Drums
Danny Kalb: Guitar
Steve Katz: Guitar
Andy Kulberg: Bass
Al Kooper: Organ
John Gilmore: Sax (Tenor)
