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1.
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PAPA WAS A ROLLING STONE
(N.Whitfield, B.Strong) - Listen
to Sample |
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2.
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TIPITINA (Professor
Longhair) |
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THAT MELLOW SAXOPHONE (Montrell,
Marascalco, Blackwell) - Listen
to Full Song |
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4.
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AFTER THE RAIN (John Coltrane)
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5.
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CANTO PARA ELEGUA (Yoruba
traditional) |
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SIDEWINDER (Lee Morgan)
- Listen
to Sample |
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7.
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CALCUTTA CUTIE (Horace
Silver) |
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8.
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WHO DO DA VOODOO? (Mark
Taylor) |
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9.
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BLUES A LA CARTE (Jim
Roberts) |
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10.
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CANTALOUPE ISLAND
(Herbie Hancock) |
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11.
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LUCY I'M HOME (H.Adamson,
E.Daniel) |
Stereophile:
QuarterNotes by Wes Phillips
Last, but far from least, is the À La Carte Brass and
Percussion - a group that lists some 14 brass players and
percussionists, not to mention two guest vocalists, in its credits.
It's a rocking ensemble, and the title tells you exactly what
you're going to get: everything from swamp funk to Coltrane's
After the Rain. The disc opens with a rompin', stompin'
Papa Was a Rolling Stone that - complete with mock-operatic
vocal - sounds stunningly real. I've been playing this for manufacturers
when they come by to install equipment: every one of ïem jumps
for the disc and writes down its name, muttering "Gotta get this
one for the Show!" It's so direct and vivid that it can blow out
candles - hell, it's so real you can tell what the trumpet players
ate for lunch. Pretty spooky.
June 1995
Modern Drummer:
reviewed by Jeff Potter
First you smile, maybe even let out a surprised
laugh. They may be a riot, but they sure ain't no joke. These
wild and talented players have mixed a tuba-bottomed New Orleans
brass band with a Latin percussion section. It gets even deeper:
The material includes Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Coletrane's
After The Rain, Professor Longhair's Tipitina,
and Theme From I Love Lucy. They rock, they stroll, they
swing, they funk it up.
Led by ex-Santana member Galì Sanchez,
the percussion section boils over when flaming congas, timbales,
and cow-bells meet a New Orleans marching snare and bass drum.
There's a marvelous "Why Not?" artistry to the whole lively
disc. Gumbo picante anyone?
August 1996
The Washington Post :
reviewed by Mike Joyce
If ever an album title deserved to be capped
with an exclamation point, it's Boogeyin'! the new
recording by A La Carte Brass and Percussion band.
Unpredictable as it is spirited, the disc is subtitled Swamprock,
Salsa &'Trane, but even that billing somehow seems
insufficient given the way the 12-piece band enthusiastically
embraces Motown classics, New Orleans R&B polyphony and rhythmic
grooves, guest star (and go-go-king) Chuck Brown, and
even the I Love Lucy television theme. In addition
to the curious tune choices, there are surprises to be found
in the casting - Brown, for example, belts out the old Crescent
City chestnut That Mellow Saxophone - and in the frequently
shifting moods. For all the band's brassy exuberance and Afro-Caribbean
thrust - the very qualities that make That Mellow Saxophone
and Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder so hard to resist -
the album is also graced by arrangements that blend the soulful
and the sublime. Of these, none is more striking than the
group's dark and sonorous reading of John Coltrane's After
the Rain, a performance richly enhanced by Gary Johnson's
tenor sax.
February 24, 1995
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