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Appointment in Samarra (2015 Remaster)

from The Wily Bo Walker Story Vol II by Wily Bo Walker

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2015 Remaster of one of WIly Bo Walker's instrumentals and a nod to the Big Band Fusion bands of the early seventies!

Inspired by the short story 'The Appointment in Samarra' as retold by W. Somerset Maugham in 1933…
The speaker is Death

There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and he said, "Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate.  I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me"

The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.

Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, "Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?"
"That was not a threatening gesture" I said, "it was only a start of surprise.  I was astonished to see him in Bagdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra"

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Instrumental

Sax solo by Mark Gatz
Guitar Solo by Keith Mack

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from The Wily Bo Walker Story Vol II, released January 22, 2016
Wily Bo Walker - Sound Effects, Synths

Eran Asias - Drums & Percussion
Tom Welsch - Electric Bass
Ruslan Agababayev - Keyboards
Benjy King - Keyboards
Keith Mack - Guitar
Tony Gorruso, Michael McGovern, Kenny Rampton - Trumpets
Daniel Flam, Steve Withoft - Trombones
Ron Bertolet, Mark Gatz, Nir Naaman - Saxes

Arrangement by Danny Flam

Produced by Wily Bo Walker

Recorded at:
Brown Sugar Studios, New York
NewYorkBrass.com Studios, West Hempstead, NY
Garden Productions Recording, NY
Wily Bo Studios, London, UK

Engineering: Daniel Flam, Blue Tha Engineer, Jeff (Jedi) Jones, Wily Bo Walker, Jimmy Madison

Mixed and Mastered by Bob Katz at Digital Domain Studios, Florida, USA

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