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| From Me to You / Reach for it |
| George Duke |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
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2 x CD |
| 4.250 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | From Me to You
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| 2. | Carry On
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| 3. | What Do They Really Fear?
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| 4. | 'Scuse Me Miss
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| 5. | You and Me
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| 6. | Broken Dreams
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| 7. | Up on It
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| 8. | Seasons
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| 9. | Down in It
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| 10. | Sing It
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | The Beginning
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| 2. | Lemme at It
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| 3. | Hot Fire
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| 4. | Reach for It
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| 5. | Just for You
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| 6. | Omi (Fresh Water)
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| 7. | Searchin' My Mind
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| 8. | Watch out Baby!
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| 9. | Diamonds
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| 10. | The End
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| 11. | Bring It on Home [*]
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Jazz / Funk, Jazz-Funk, Crossover Jazz
Digitally remastered two-fer from the Jazz keyboardist containing his first two albums on one CD: From Me To You and Reach For It (both released in 1977). Reach For It is his most successful album to date, making the US Top 30 Albums Chart. Both of these albums take him away from his Jazz roots and into an R&B groove.
Great Britain's BGO imprint (an acronym for "Beat Goes On") puts together a pair of well-known full-length titles from the ubiquitous George Duke. In this two-disc set are his 1977 "official" debut set for Epic From Me to You (he'd recorded a solo keyboard album in 1976 but the label refused to release it), and his first smash for the label, 1978's Reach for It. Both albums are presented in fully remastered, 24-bit technology -- the latter album contains a bonus cut.
Though Reach for It is widely known, From Me to You, is less so (undeservedly) -- it only reached only number 192 on the Billboard Top 200. It is divided into two sides, its first six cuts feature Duke with a startling array of musicians, including guitarist Michael Sembello, drummer Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, bassists Stanley Clarke and Byron Miller, a female backing chorus, and a couple of guest spots from Dianne Reeves. The set also includes full horn and string sections. In many ways, From Me to You not only sums up everywhere Duke had been in his career to that point -- from playing with Cannonball Adderley, Frank Zappa, and Jean-Luc Ponty, and issuing a slew of self-produced jazz fusion dates -- but also pointed to where he was headed. "Carry On" alone offers the aforementioned portrait in sound: it includes the knotty, impeccably precise keyboard and expanded vocal arrangements of the '70s Mothers of Invention, the hard-edged roots soul jazz of Adderley, the Philly soul production model of the time, and the emergent dominance of George Clinton's P-Funk sound. The rest of side one showcases the lithe, easy, funky vocal sounds of the era, and showcases Duke's killer falsetto, inimical of groups like Earth, Wind & Fire. The second half of the set, is a hardcore jazz-funk instrumental fusion album that commences with "Up On It," and never lets up the funk.
Reach for It, released in 1978, was recorded after a tour; the material was road tested. It is a much more keyboard- and vocal-oriented set that features the singing talents of Flora Purim and Jean Carn (both uncredited for contractual reasons) on the title track, with Charles Icarus Johnson on guitars. Chancler on drums, and, with the exception of one track, there is no bass player. Duke's synth bass does the job), His bandmembers, himself, and a host of female backing singers take the vocals. The album kicks off like an extension of the second side of From Me to You, with instrumental fusion in "The Beginning," "Lemme at It," the Brazilian-cum-Santana-flavored "Hot Fire," and Latin fusion tunes "Omi" and "Diamonds." Other songs such as the title track and "Watch Out Baby" are simply deep, hard funk, and finally, "Searchin' My Mind." is a beautiful, sweet soul vocal ballad. These two albums are key parts of the George Duke legacy; they still hold up as exploratory yet accessible records in which many different musical elements meld together fluidly and seamlessly. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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