David Earle Johnson

Percussionist David Earle Johnson performed in albums by way of a amount of jazz performers within the ’70s before releasing some of his very own albums in the past due ’70s and early ’80s. He made an appearance on many albums: Billy Cobham’s Total Eclipse and Clive Steves’ Voyage to Uranus (1974); Jan Hammer’s Initial A WEEK (1975); Lenny White’s Big Town and Miroslav Vitous’ Majesty Music (1977); Jaroslav Jakubovic’s Checkin’ In, Tag Moogy Klingman’s Moogy II, the Players Association’s Delivered to Dance, and Josh Light Jr.’s self-titled record (1978); among others. Johnson’s single debut emerged in 1978 as time passes Is Free, documented for Vanguard. His romantic relationship with this label demonstrated short-lived, nevertheless, and he started documenting albums for various other labels in following years before his documenting profession simmered out in the first ’80s pursuing his 1983 record, The Midweek Blues.