A delightful reminder of the days when progressive rock and jazz seemed destined to forge a life-long partnership,
Satisfaction was the 1971 debut album by the latest incarnation of veteran trumpeter
Mike Cotton's
Mike Cotton Sound, fed through a name change (and logo) that must surely have had the
Rolling Stones looking twice. Teaming up with producer
David Hitchcock and fronted by vocalist
Lem Lubin (ex-
Unit 4+2), the brief appeared to be to follow the early path of
Chicago and
Blood, Sweat & Tears, but with sufficient space left over for a few more idiosyncratic diversions. And overall it works, at least within the so-subjective parameters of period jazz-rock, a genre that rarely scaled the peaks it deserved to, but never quite sank to the depths that it was capable of, either.