It's been a while since I posted the first Curtis Creek Band article. Yup, it was back in spring of 2023 when I wrote about this jazzy band with the name that has a "Star Trek: The Next Generation" connection, and to add further to the article for "Foggy", I realized that band saxophonist Toshiro Sakka（さっか利郎）and his group released two versions of an album under the same title in 1983. "Windy People" has the two different covers: the one with the pretty woman looking longingly at the word "White" has the subtitle of "Winning History ni Dakarete"（ウイニング・ヒストリーに抱かれて...Embraced by a Winning History） while the other one has a dashing fellow on a motorcycle while its subtitle is "Shinkyo Monogatari"（心響物語...Heartbeat Story）.
"City Morning" is a track that belongs on the "Winning History ni Dakarete" version. Composed and arranged by Sakka, it's ironically led by a lonely trumpeter who isn't even mentioned in the Discogs file on the album. It's a comfortable and woozy contemporary fusion instrumental but having that trumpet in there makes me fantasize that the song could be the soundtrack from a made-for-TV movie about a cynical gumshoe coming back from a long night of drinking and detecting to his humble apartment in a rundown area of town. Please feel to supply your own narration by the private eye himself.
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