Free Flight

Founded originally from the masterful classical flutist Jim Walker and the versatile keyboardist Milcho Leviev (who after some internal dissension was changed in 1984 by Mike Garson), Free of charge Trip on recordings for Arabesque, Palo Alto, and CBS offers successfully fused together classical passages, straight-ahead jazz, and fusion, sometimes switching between all three idioms within the same chorus. Walker’s lengthy and complicated unison choruses with Garson certainly are a spotlight from the latter-day group; neither virtuoso appears to ever make a blunder. Bassist Jim Lacefield and drummer Peter Erskine had been also founding users of the group. Ralph Humphrey required Erskine’s place by 1982 and, using the loss of life of Lacefield, the bass and drum seats are filled up with a number of versatile players. Free Airline flight (right now a cooperation between Walker and Garson) provides continuing on a part-time basis in to the mid-’90s.