Captain Buckles

Captain Buckles
Studio album by David "Fathead" Newman
Released	1971
Recorded	November 3–5, 1970 Atlantic Recording Studios in NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	32:45
Label	Cotillion SD 18002
Producer	Joel Dorn
David "Fathead" Newman chronology
The Many Facets of David Newman (1969) Captain Buckles (1971) Lonely Avenue (1972)

Captain Buckles is an album by American saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman featuring performances recorded in 1970 and released on the Cotillion label.¹²³⁴

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	5

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it a "soulful but relatively straight-ahead effort" and "An improvement over David Newman's preceding projects".⁵

All compositions by David Newman except as indicated

1. "Captain Buckles" - 4:36
2. "Joel's Domain" - 4:15
3. "Something" (George Harrison) - 3:40
4. "Blue Caper" (Blue Mitchell) - 4:22
5. "The Clincher" - 6:17
6. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 5:04
7. "Negus" - 5:15

• David "Fathead" Newman - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
• Blue Mitchell - trumpet
• Eric Gale - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Steve Novosel - bass
• Bernard Purdie - drums