Universal Congress Of - Prosperous and Qualified
This review arose from a short-lived thread on a music forum to which I belong. We were going to write about an album a month, but we only managed three, unfortunately. Universal Congress Of are an American jazz ensemble from Los Angeles, founded in 1986 by Joe Baiza . Prosperous and Qualified (1988) was their second LP, following 1987's Joe Baiza & The Universal Congress Of . The line-up on Prosperous and Qualified was: Joe Baiza – guitar, vocals Jacob Cohn – alto saxophone Ralph Gorodetsky – bass guitar Jason Kahn – drums Lynn Johnston – tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass guitar, baritone saxophone Steve Moss – tenor saxophone, vocals The album isn't on Spotify and is quite hard to track down - however there's a YouTube playlist that I made here . I did enjoy this album. My first few listens were as background music whilst I was working/writing, which I often find helpful to get the 'feel' of an album. And my first impressions were positive; prosaically