The selection The Highest Pleasure is typical of this second Johnson Black Jazz album, featuring Johnson’s high energy and fiery tenor – a distinctive voice, confident inventive improvisation, whose vocabulary includes turning up the heat: rapid fire flurries, rasping throaty discourse, squawks, howls. Recording engineer Robert (Bob) Berglund was associated with cutting several Black Jazz titles, though not explicitly mentioned in the credits here, nevertheless left his initials in the vinyl Kent Brinkley, bass Doug Sides, drums Kirk Lightsey, piano Rudolph Johnson, tenor saxophone recorded at Hollywood Spectrum Studios, Los Angeles, California, producer Gene Russell. (All songs Rudolph Johnson except B1 – Lightsey.) Selection: The Highest Pleasure (Johnson) ī1.