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| The Return of Mod Jazz |
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első megjelenés éve: 2005 |
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| 1. | Sack O' Woe
Ray Bryant Combo
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| 2. | Sweet Lover No More
Gene McDaniels
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| 3. | Them Blues
Billie Poole with The Junior Mance Trio
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| 4. | Bell Bottoms [
Joe Swift's Internationals
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| 5. | Hold It
Kenny Rice and Leo's Five
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| 6. | Have Some Boogaloo
Timmy Thomas
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| 7. | East Side
Hank Jacobs
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| 8. | Summertime
The George Benson Quartet
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| 9. | Pussy Cat
Mongo Santamaria
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| 10. | Liberation
The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One
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| 11. | Canteloupe Island
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
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| 12. | Wild Bird
The Googie Rene Combo
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| 13. | Beaver
Clarence Armstrong
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| 14. | Twenty Five Miles
Bill Doggett
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| 15. | Banana Peels
Johnny Otis
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| 16. | Ray's Theme
Leon Haywood
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| 17. | I Love the Life I Live
Mose Allison Trio
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| 18. | Monkey Sho' Can Talk
Red Holloway
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| 19. | Top of the Pops
The Dave Davani Four
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| 20. | Get It [
The Swingin' Tomatoes
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| 21. | Everytime, Pt. 2
Buddy McKnight
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| 22. | Getting into Something
The TKO's
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| 23. | Hum Drum Blues
Oscar Brown, Jr.
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| 24. | Hide Out
The Hideaways
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Jazz
* The latest in the highly successful and critically acclaimed series that created its own genre.
* This compilation features many sought-after tracks from artists including Albert King and Gene McDaniels that have never been available on CD before.
* Up-and-coming discoveries include the mighty vocal version of 'Do Anything You Wanna' by George "Stardust" Green, Billie Poole's rare Riverside 45 'Them Blues' and the unknown artist masterpiece 'Get It'.
* Among the obscurities several top names weigh in with some heavyweight mod jazz such as George Benson, Mongo Santamaria and Bill Doggett.
* Compiled by Dean Rudland and Ady Croasdell and includes a highly informative booklet, featuring fascinating memorabilia and many label reproductions.
* Ady Croasdell - Compilation
* Al Hamm - Producer
* Arthur Wright - Arranger
* Cal Lampley - Producer
* Dean Rudland - Compilation, Liner Notes
* Don James - Arranger
* Fred E. Smith - Producer
* James Carmichael - Arranger
* John Hammond, Sr. - Producer
* Johnny Otis - Producer
* Mike Berniker - Producer
* Nathaniel Nathan - Producer
* Nick Robbins - Mastering
* Quinton Claunch - Producer
* Robert Mersey - Producer
* Rudolph V. "Doc" Russell - Producer
* Teo Macero - Producer
The three button midnight blue mohair is in order, a light blue Oxford cotton button down shirt is laundered, ironed and ready to go. The Bass Weejun loafers are polished and slipped onto your feet. You give yourself a quick once over in the mirror, click your fingers and you're away. A sharp modernist on the town looking for kicks, and soundtracked by the comeback of the year. THE RETURN OF MOD JAZZ.
It's been a while, but we are glad to tell you that the original purveyors of the sharp mixture of jazz, latin and R&B sounds is back on the street, with the sort of music that many of the young pretenders would kill to put within their covers. What stronger message of intent could you be laying down than the pictures of Oscar Brown Jr stripy shirt, fingers snapping and Gene McDaniels black suit, cuffs just so with some fine links. Are they on the album? You bet! Oscar working his way through his mod anthem Humdrum Blues while Gene appears with the amazing latin soul of Sweet Lover No More, a single he released on Columbia just before he went to Atlantic to dress up in radical-chic outfits and upset the vice-president of the USA.
Regular purchasers of the series will be aware that mod jazz doesn't really sit at the high church of jazz appreciation, but rather we plough our own furrow, going with whatever we think has a distinctly jazzy flavour. Of course we are big fans of a vocals and Hammonds, and on this volume we remain firm friends of both. For those who love a touch of the big H we have Clarence Armstrong's Money rarity the Beaver, his cousin Hank Jacobs both with and without the TKOs, Red Holloway with Jack McDuff, Bill Doggett and Timmy Thomas confusing us all as he urges us to Have Some Boogaloo.
Vocally we have some of the finest, Oscar and Gene of course and George Benson and Mose Allison, whose laconic I Love The Life I Live was a big influence on Georgie Fame. Also from this side of the tracks we have Them Blues by Billie Poole which, so I'm told is picking up some plays in the clubs right now. And we have our own special discovery in the blistering big horned R&B of the Swinging Tomatoes' Get It.
Elsewhere we let Mongo Santamaria, Pucho and the Afro Blue Quintet give us a full helping of latin soul. Leon Haywood, Dave Davani and Leo's Five provide us with some swinging grooves, whilst it would be remiss of us to pass over other fine contributions from mod jazz favourites Googie Rene and the Johnny Otis Show.
So if you are to feel the need to dress sharp in the manner described above be sure to use this as the only recommended soundtrack!
---By Dean Rudland
It took about five years for Ace to get from the fourth volume to the fifth one in its Return of Mod Jazz series, but this 2005 compilation upholds the high standards set by its predecessors. The two-dozen tracks represent '60s jazz at its most accessible and dance-oriented, often (though not always) emphasizing groovy organ parts and swinging piano, and mixing instrumentals with some vocal numbers. It's not the kind of stuff they'll teach in jazz history courses, but as for fun modern jazz with a liberal does of blues, soul, and pop influences, it's hard to beat. As per Ace's formula, although a bunch of the names are well known (Gene McDaniels, Timmy Thomas, George Benson, Mongo Santamaria, Bill Doggett, Johnny Otis, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, and Oscar Brown, Jr.), none of the tracks selected by these artists are overly familiar. As for the rest of the cuts (save Mose Allison's "I Love the Life I Live"), it's doubtful that many outside hardcore collectors of this stuff have heard them. That doesn't mean, however, that the numbers by the relative unknowns are inferior, and in fact, some of them rate among the disc's highlights. Googie Rene Combo's "Wild Bird," offers some ultra-tense, ultra-tight spooky choked organ; Kenny Rice & Leo's Five's "Hold It" has some real hot organ/R&B guitar interplay; and the Dave Davani Four's "Top of the Pops" can't fail to evoke the most jazz-oriented side of mid-'60s mod Swinging London. Of the other sides, Timmy Thomas' "Have Some Boogaloo," which predates his famous soul hit "Why Can't We Live Together" by a good five years, is a near-instrumental with garage jazz (if such a term exists) organ that shows a much different side of his music.
--- Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide |
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