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| 1. | Know It? I Wrote It!
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| 2. | Greasy Sticks
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| 3. | The Dark Room
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| 4. | Yeah, Maybe
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| 5. | Poptop
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| 6. | The Stroll
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| 7. | (Why Don't You Just) Go Home!
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| 8. | Call It Home
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| 9. | Stovepipe Boogie
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| 10. | Slinky
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| 11. | Blues in D Natural
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| 12. | For Cliff
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| 13. | Jump'd
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Jazz
Bruce Katz - Liner Notes, Organ (Hammond), Piano, Producer
Michael Williams - Guitar
Ralph Rosen - Drums
Rod Carey - Bass (Electric)
Ronnie Earl - Guitar
* Al Brandtner - Design
* Charlie Pilzer - Mastering
* David Earl - Executive Producer
* Huck Bennert - Engineer, Mixing
* Jean Hangarter - Photography
Keyboardist Bruce Katz showcases his jazz-meets-blues chops on Deeper Blue. Featuring Katz on both the Hammond B-3 organ and piano, the results sound something like a progressive, post-bop jazz group heavily into early-period Ray Charles. Although Katz is the featured player here, the album plays more like a group effort with guitarists Ronnie Earl and Michael Williams coming front and center much of the time. To these ends, "(Why Don't You Just) Go Home!" is a quick and funky Medeski, Martin & Wood-style burner, "Greasy Sticks" is a suitably greasified shuffle, and "Slinky" is a menacing and atmospheric mid-tempo modern blues. Longtime Katz fans and listeners searching for some rootsy and intelligent improvisational music should find much to enjoy here.
--- Matt Collar, All Music Guide
Bruce Katz
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Aug 19, 1952
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Hard Bop, New Orleans R&B, Jazz Blues
Rarely does a musician display brilliant dexterity, coupled with sparks of creativity, equally in both blues and jazz. One such rare bird is Bruce Katz, who not only meets these characteristics, but excels in his understanding of the genres and unleashes the strongest assets of each.
Best known as a member of Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Katz took up music at age five when he outperformed his sister at the classical pieces she was assigned for piano lessons. Discovering classic jazz and a Bessie Smith record planted the seeds of a passion for jazz and blues.
In the early '80s his first major supporting gig was Big Mama Thornton; he then worked and toured with Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Jimmy Witherspoon, Johnny Adams, and Tiger Okoshi. Burned out from life on the road, he enrolled at New England Conservatory, earning a master's degree in jazz. Five months after graduation, he met Ronnie Earl, who hired Katz.
During the nearly five-year stint with Earl, Katz performed on six CDs, and also co-wrote songs with Earl, some of which were "The Colour of Love," "Ice Cream Man," and "Hippology." In 1992, Katz debuted his first solo album Crescent Crawl, then the following year, released Transformation. Just before the release of Mississippi Moan, Katz left the Broadcasters to concentrate on a solo career. In addition to performing, Katz teaches piano and taught the first ever in-depth blues course at Berklee College. His album roster includes 1993's Transformation, 1997's Mississippi Moan, 2000's Three Feet to the Ground with Deeper Blue following in 2004.
---Char Ham, All Music Guide |
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