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| The Midnight Creeper [SHM-CD Japan] |
| Lou Donaldson |
japán
első megjelenés éve: 1968
37 perc |
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| (2014)
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| 7.833 Ft
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| 1. | Midnight Creeper
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| 2. | Love Power
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| 3. | Elizabeth
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| 4. | Bag Of Jewels
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| 5. | Dapper Dan
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Jazz
Soul-Jazz
Jazz-Funk
Recorded: Mar 15, 1968
Backed by the same great rhythm section that made "Alligator Bogaloo" a funk masterpiece, Lou Donaldson is joined by Blue Mitchell on "Midnight Creeper". The pocket that George Benson, Lonnie Smith and Idris Muhammad lay down on "Love Power" and the title tune is incredible. On Lonnie's "Bag Of Jewels", the band gets room to really stretch out.
Mastered with 24-bit Super Bit Mapping and on CD for the first time.
As he delved deeper into commercial soul-jazz and jazz-funk, Lou Donaldson became better at it. While lacking the bite of his hard bop improvisations or the hard-swinging funk of Alligator Bogaloo, Midnight Creeper succeeds where its predecessor, Mr. Shing-A-Ling failed: it offers a thoroughly enjoyable set of grooving, funky soul-jazz. The five songs -- including two originals by Donaldson and one each by Lonnie Smith (who also plays organ on the record), Teddy Vann, and Harold Ousley -- aren't particularly distinguished, but the vibe is important, not the material. And the band -- Donaldson, Smith, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, guitarist George Benson, and drummer Leo Morris -- strikes the right note, turning in a fluid, friendly collection of bluesy funk vamps. Donaldson could frequently sound stilted on his commercial soul-jazz dates, but that's not the case with Midnight Creeper. He rarely was quite as loose on his late-'60s/early-'70s records as he is here, and that's what makes Midnight Creeper a keeper.
---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic |
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