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| 1. | Karma
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| 2. | Mino
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| 3. | Maybe Next Time
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| 4. | Evidently
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| 5. | Send One Your Love
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| 6. | Never Give Up
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| 7. | The Yearning
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| 8. | Pentacourse
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| 9. | Resolution of Love
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| 10. | Remember When
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Jazz
Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York in May 1990
Robin Eubanks - Arranger, Art Direction, Choir, Chorus, Electric Trombone, Percussion, Producer, Rap, String Samples, Trombone
Branford Marsalis - Sax (Tenor)
Cassandra Wilson - Vocals
Dave Holland Quartet - Bass (Acoustic), Choir, Chorus
Earl Gardner - Trumpet
Greg Osby - Sample Engineering, Sax (Alto)
Kenny Werner - Keyboards
Kevin Eubanks - Choir, Chorus, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic)
Kimson "Kism" Albert - Rap
Lonnie Plaxico - Bass (Electric)
Marvin "Smitty" Smith - Choir, Chorus, Drums, Rap
Mino Cinelu - Choir, Chorus, Percussion
Renee Rosnes - Choir, Chorus, Keyboards, Piano
Stefan F. Winter - Choir, Chorus, Producer
* Adrian VonRipka - Engineer
* Alva Nelson - Arranger
* Bernard Jacobs - Grooming, Stylist
* Hiroshi Itsuno - Executive Producer
* Katherine Miller - Assistant
* Mark Malabrigo - Photography
* Paul Wickliffe - Engineer
* Tomasina Smith - Make-Up
Nobody among the members of the Brooklyn collective M-Base, that innovative network of creative young black musicians, is as versatile stylistically and at the same time as conscious of history as Robin Eubanks.
Karma is his third recording as a laeder after Different Perspectives (JMT 919 023-2) and Dedication (JMT 919 032-2, with Steve Turre as co-leader). The trombonist and composer of his new album: Karma is the follow-up to my debut recording Different Perspectives. It developes upon the theme of Different Perspectives, "that variety is the concept, with the common thread of good music holding it together."
Robin's musical interests and influence were manifold from the beginning. His mother is a piano teacher and respectable gospel pianist. Her brother Ray, the well- known jazz pianist, and Tom Bryant, who frequently accompanied Ray on the bass, were frequent visitors at the Eubanks home. Tombonist Al Grey was a neighbor. He introduced Robin to Slide Hampton in 1978. and it was largely due to Hamptons generosity that Robin moved to New York in 1980.
At that time he listened to and played mostly jazz. He started out quite differently. He liked soul (Aretha Franklin, James Brown, The Temptation, Sly and the Family Stone) and rock (Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad, Frank Zappa) and played in local funk bands with guitarist brother Kevin.
Robin doesn't in the least intend to renounce or to deny his early musical preferences: If I just deal with the last thirteen years or so, which is what I've been dealing with jazz, I'm negating a whole 20 years of stuff that I listened to and that's still in me. This attitude, the attempt to incorporate all past musical experiences in his current work, is what draws him to his M-Base friends, as different as the outcome may be in each individual case. Robin continues: I get bored playing funk, I get bored just playing straight ahead, I get bored just playing odd meter stuff. I need variety to stimulate me.
The variety of Robin's career is indeed remarkable. He has worked with traditional jazz men like Philly Joe Jones, Frank Foster, and Ronnie Matthews, performed with the band of Sun Ra, Sam Rivers, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Abdullah Ibrahim, Bobby Previte, and spend three years on Broadway. In Francis Ford Coppola's film "Cotton Club" he appeared as a member of "Duke Ellington's" orchestra. For 16 month Robin was musical director for the late Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Dave Holland and McCoy Tyner invited him to join their groups. Robin Eubanks has recorded with anybody from the Talking Heads and Pitti Labelle to Geri Allen, Steve Coleman, Hank Roberts and Herb Robertson.
Robin's respect for the tradition, specifically hard bop, finds expression in his compositions "The Yearning" and "Remember When". The later is dedicated to his ex-boss Art Blakey, and both feature Brandford Marsalis, ts, also a Blakey alumnus. Dave Holland, b, and Marvin "Smitty" Smith, dr, from a very strong rhythm team and propel the various line-ups mightly forward. A good example is "Pentacourse" , a characteristic M-Base piece with a hard beat. Here Robin, the sole horn player, displays his strengths to particularly fine effect. He demonstrates that he's not just a virtuoso trombonist but has achieved a unique voice of his own on his instrument.
"Never Give Up", possibly the catchiest composition on Karma, is even more pronounedly funky than "Pentacourse". "Mino" has grown out of Robin's admiration for Brazilian music. Percussionist Mino Cinelu and Robin recorded all instrumental tracks, while the rest of the musicians for once sound their voices instead of their instruments.
There's also a "real" singer. M-Base colleague Cassandra Wilson graces the ballad "Resolution of Love" (Robin played in his touring band for a while) and his own "Maybe Next Time", each with brother Kevin Eubanks in a prominent role, Robin indulges in his weakness for schmaltz.
The heart of Karma is the title track. "Karma" in not only Robin's variant of combination of rap and jazz but also an exposition of his personal philosophy. For all his enthusiasm for Public Enemy, it goes in a very different political direction. Robin argues against a simple polarization of Black and White. It's easy to complain, put others to shame... But you've got to take a bold stand... Lay claim in the powers in your life.
Come on get with this!
--- Original Press Text Written in 1991
Trombonist Robin Eubanks' Karma begins with a throwaway rap piece and then moves up to a higher level. Eubanks' versatility is displayed on a World Music performance with percussion and a choir ("Mino"), a ballad with sampled strings ("Maybe Next Time"), a Monkish piece based on Thelonious' "Evidence" ("Evidently"), Latin funk ("Send One Your Love"), more commercial funk ("Never Give Up"), a jazz original for sextet ("The Yearning"), the rhythmically monotonous "Pentacourse," a vocal feature for Cassandra Wilson ("Resolution Of Love") and a hard bop original dedicated to Art Blakey ("Remember When"). This CD, which has contributions from altoist Greg Osby, Branford Marsalis on tenor and guitarist Kevin Eubanks, is quite a mixed bag.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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