The album title could have been one by . But Robby Krieger, the former guitarist of this famous band, does not look back on his seventh album The Ritual Begins At Sundown. It is even the first serious jazz record of this 70s. With some former members of 's bands in his ensemble, Krieger wrote and arranged a number of pieces for an extensive jazz band. The result is reminiscent of the big band
… music of (again) Zappa from the early 1970s. An influence that he reveals with an adaptation of the Zappa piece Chunga's Revenge. Krieger is a gifted guitarist and songwriter (of The Doors classics such as Light My Fire and Touch Me). Besides an original and eccentric composer like Zappa, Krieger's jazz lacks the necessary adventure. The massive brass arrangements are always neatly in line and only in his inspired guitar solos does Krieger seem to be really at home. (MR)more
