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| Cookin' with the Mighty Burner |
| Charles Earland |
| első megjelenés éve: 1999 |
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| (1999)
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| 4.401 Ft
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| 1. | Milestones
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| 2. | Sister Sadie
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| 3. | Killer Joe
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| 4. | Seven Steps to Heaven
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| 5. | Will You Love Me Tomorrow
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| 6. | Five Blind Mice
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| 7. | Seven of Nine
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| 8. | Stella by Starlight
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Jazz
Charles Earland- Hammond B3 organ
Eric Alexander- tenor saxophone; James Rotondi- trumpet; Melvin Sparks- guitar; Bobby Durham- drums; Gary Fritz- percussion
Charles Earland, "The Mighty Burner", is back in his kitchen and the result is a jazz feast of the highest order. Dominating the B-3 scene for over thirty years, Charles has selected a terrific program of some classic tunes - KILLER JOE, SISTER SADIE, SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN and two new Earland originals (Seven of Nine, Five Blind Mice). Charles has brought along his usual band of soul chefs - Eric Alexander, James Rotondi, the great Melvin Sparks, et al. and they all have a free hand with the spice! This is one hard-swinging session that certainly lives up to the description, "COOKIN'". Recorded at the famed Van Gelder studio, nobody, but nobody captures the B-3 sound with the realism and depth that Rudy Van Gelder does.
* Joe Fields - Executive Producer
* Pamela Xavier - Graphic Design
* Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
Organist Earland is known far and wide as one of the more inventive, awe-inspiring, soul-sending practitioners of the B-3. On this set, he still sounds like the man to beat, but in many instances he instead allows his bandmates to shine. Those mates include younger firebrands (trumpeter Jim Rotundi and saxophonist Eric Alexander), as well as longtime sidemen (guitarist Melvin Sparks and drummer Bobby Durham), helped by percussionist Gary Fritz. Of course, when Earland wants to burn, he can, and does on many occasions. He recapitulates a piece from Front Burner which was titled "Mom & Dad," but is re-named "Seven of Nine." It's a modal cooker in 10/8 that is even more relentless than the original with a reworked head for the horns. Earland leads the way on Carole King's half-speed "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," but the trumpet and tenor, separately or together, inspire the charge on other cuts; Rotundi quite naturally on "Seven Steps to Heaven," "Milestones," and "Stella By Starlight." Alexander is really hitting his stride, getting fluttery and animated on "Seven Steps" and "Seven of Nine." And Sparks, who is woefully underdocumented these days, proves why he is still one of the all-time greats. His shimmering chords on "Milestones" and fleet single lines in the middle of "Seven Steps" provide plenty of evidence for this contention. At first you think this is a head-solo-tail fest, with the first four cuts running true to predictable form. But then Earland steps forward, turns up the heat, and things cook along nicely until the end. This is one of Earland's better efforts in the last ten years of his life, consistent from start to finish. The burner is in the house, and mightier than ever.
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide
Charles Earland
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: May 24, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: Dec 11, 1999 in Kansas City, MO
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz Blues, Mainstream Jazz
Charles Earland came into his own at the tail end of the great 1960s wave of soul-jazz organists, gaining a large following and much airplay with a series of albums for the the Prestige label. While heavily indebted to Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff, Earland came armed with his own swinging, technically agile, light-textured sound on the keyboard and one of the best walking-bass pedal techniques in the business. Though not an innovative player in his field, Earland burned with the best of them when he was on.
Earland actually started his musical experiences surreptitiously on his father's alto sax as a kid, and when he was in high school, he played baritone in a band that also featured fellow Philadelphians Pat Martino on guitar, Lew Tabackin on tenor, and yes, Frankie Avalon on trumpet. After playing in the Temple University band, he toured as a tenor player with McGriff for three years, became infatuated with McGriff's organ playing, and started learning the Hammond B-3 at intermission breaks. When McGriff let him go, Earland switched to the organ permanently, forming a trio with Martino and drummer Bobby Durham. He made his first recordings for Choice in 1966, then joined Lou Donaldson for two years (1968-69) and two albums before being signed as a solo artist to Prestige. Earland's first album for Prestige, Black Talk!, became a best-selling classic of the soul-jazz genre; a surprisingly effective cover of the Spiral Starecase's pop/rock hit "More Today Than Yesterday" from that LP received saturation airplay on jazz radio in 1969. He recorded eight more albums for Prestige, one of which featured a young unknown Philadelphian named Grover Washington, Jr., then switched to Muse before landing contracts with Mercury and Columbia. By this time, the organ trio genre had gone into eclipse, and in the spirit of the times, Earland acquired some synthesizers and converted to pop/disco in collaboration with his wife, singer/songwriter Sheryl Kendrick. Kendrick's death from sickle-cell anemia in 1985 left Earland desolate, and he stopped playing for awhile, but a gig at the Chickrick House on Chicago's South Side in the late '80s brought him out of his grief and back to the Hammond B-3. Two excellent albums in the old soul-jazz groove for Milestone followed, and the '90s found him returning to the Muse label. Earland died of heart failure on December 11, 1999, the morning after playing a gig in Kansas City; he was 58.
--- Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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