Curtis Creek Band -- Sail On Slowly, Josephson

 

When I first discovered the Japanese fusion group, Curtis Creek Band, back last June, I was reminded of Will Riker's Curtis Creek fishing program on the holodeck of the Enterprise-D. Well, this time I was fortunate to find a YouTube video with the man and his fake son mentioning it from the episode "Past Imperfect".

The former First Officer was also someone we Trekkies knew as a jazz trombone aficionado although I'm not sure how he would have felt about the fusion genre. Anyways, I have another entry by Curtis Creek Band which served as the first track on their 1981 album "Driftin'". I don't know who Josephson was on "Sail On Slowly, Josephson" but obviously harmonica player Nobuo Yagi（八木のぶお）and saxophonist Toshiro Sakka（さっか利郎）, the core duo of the band, must have loved the big lug. There's something quite elegiac about "Sail On Slowly, Josephson" as if their friend had only recently departed this mortal coil and the band decided to send him off with something approximating a New Orleans funeral march with an affectionate and heartwarming fusion twist. Safe journey, Josephson!😢