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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Invocation
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| 2. | Boom Boom
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| 3. | Cousin Mary
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| 4. | Prince of Peace
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| 5. | Let the Rain Fall on Me
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| 6. | Reaching Up
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| 7. | The Creator Has a Master Plan
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Umbo Weti
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| 2. | Colors
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| 3. | Sun Song
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| 4. | African Tapestry (Prayer for a Continent)
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| 5. | Song for My Father
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| 6. | Umbo Weti Profile [Multimedia]
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| 7. | Video Song Sampler [Multimedia]
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Jazz
Babatunde Lea Author, Percussion, Producer, Drums
Claudia Robinson Editing
Dwight Trible Vocals
Ernie Watts Sax (Tenor)
Gary Brown Bass
Howard Sapper Producer
Jana Herzen Executive Producer
John Greenham Mastering, Engineer, Mixing
Patrice Rushen Piano
This ultra-fiery live double-disc recording of The Babatunde Lea Quintet lifts the spirit of avant-garde jazz vocal legend Leon Thomas to the creative forefront of today's jazz scene!
Babatunde Lea's quintet fearlessly, flawlessly follows its creative muse on a soaring Thomas-inspired journey. From explosive blues numbers to African spiritual vocalizations, the quintet is driven by Lea's hypnotic percussive grooves. If "the creator has a master plan" for jazz, this may well be it!
Umbo Weti is the first ever recorded tribute to Leon Thomas who, in his brief career as a pioneer of the 1960s spiritual jazz movement, influenced an entire genre through innovations with musical giants such as Ornette Coleman, Roland Kirk, Archie Schepp, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Pharaoh Sanders, Louis Armstrong, and Carlos Santana.
Featured tracks on include "The Creator Has a Master Plan" and "Colors," co-written by Thomas with Pharaoh Sanders for their groundbreaking 1976 Karma release on the Impulse label. The 32-minute masterpiece put Thomas on the map, and put avant-garde jazz on mainstream FM radio.
Liner notes by veteran rock journalist Gary Graff provide insight to Thomas' career and how it intersects with Lea's contemporary expression of "spiritual jazz."
"Babatunde Lea is a fiery example of everything that's not dead about jazz."
--- SF Weekly
"Not since Mungus and Blakey has music bristled with a sense of message like this."
--- DownBeat
Vocalist Leon Thomas was a close partner to saxophonist Pharoah Sanders in the late '60s and early '70s, having sung "The Creator Has a Master Plan" on 1969's Karma and "Prince of Peace" on Izipho Zam the same year. In so doing (and in his later work as a solo artist, particularly the 1973 album Blues and the Soulful Truth), he blended blues, R&B, gospel, soul, jazz, and yodeling (!) into a cohesive and utterly recognizable style that meshed quite well with jazz's turn toward ecstatic spiritualism in the wake of John Coltrane's and Albert Ayler's premature deaths. He also worked with Carlos Santana and many others. On this double live disc, Bay Area drummer and percussionist Babatunde Lea, who backed Thomas in the early '70s, is joined by saxophonist Ernie Watts (of Charlie Haden's Quartet West), keyboardist/vocalist Patrice Rushen, and vocalist Dwight Trible to pay tribute to his former boss. The arrangements have the same churning, R&B-meets-jazz groove that the best of Thomas' and Sanders' work from the late '60s had, Watts' saxophone in particular attaining ecstatic heights without devolving into raucous shrieks. Rushen's piano solos demonstrate a fluidity that those only familiar with her R&B hits like "Forget Me Nots" might find surprising. Trible's vocals are Thomas-esque in the best way -- his voice is deep and rich, and even if some songs, like Coltrane's "Cousin Mary," didn't need the excessively literal and cheesy lyrics he lays down, the versions of "Prince of Peace," "The Creator Has a Master Plan," and "Let the Rain Fall on Me" are beautiful and soulful. The deep love Babatunde Lea felt, and obviously still feels, for Leon Thomas and the music they made together comes through on every note of this disc. ~ Phil Freeman, All Music Guide |
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