Legends Of Acid Jazz

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Personnel includes: Houston Person, Cecil Bridgewater, Garnett Brown, Billy Butler, Buddy Caldwell, Babe Clarke, Grant Green, Paul Griffin, Ernie Hayes, Jack Jeffers, Gerry Jemmott, Harold Johnson, Thad Jones, Virgil Jones, Jimmy Lewis, Idris Muhammad, Sonny Phillips, Bernard Purdie, Ernie Royal, Harold Vick, Jimmy Watson. Recorded between 1967 and 1969. Personnel: Houston Person (tenor saxophone); Grant Green, Billy Butler (guitar); Harold Vick (flute, tenor saxophone); Babe Clarke (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Ernie Royal, Money Johnson, Thad Jones, Virgil Jones, Cecil Bridgewater (trumpet); Garnett Brown, Jack Jeffers (trombone); Paul Griffin (piano, electric piano); Sonny Phillips (electric piano, organ); Jimmy Watson, Ernie Hayes (organ); Jimmy Lewis & the Checkers (electric bass); Idris Muhammad, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Buddy Caldwell (congas). Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantino. Liner Note Author: Carlo Wolff. Recording information: Englewood Cliffs, NJ (10/12/1970-04/09/1971). Photographer: Al Johnson . Houston Person was among the guttiest of the gutbucket saxophonists of the soul-jazz golden age -- for proof, look no further than Legends of Acid Jazz: Houston Person, which compiles two of the saxman's most popular releases, Person to Person! and Houston Express (both originally released in 1970). Express featured the "funkmaster general" of the tenor saxophone with a tight, pocket-sized ensemble (including guitarist Grant Green and drummer Idris Muhammad), while, on Person!, his supporting ensemble expanded to include trumpet players Cecil Bridgewater and Thad Jones, guitarist Billy Butler and another kindred spirit and prince of funk on his instrument, Motown bassist Gerry Jemmott. Legends of Acid Jazz: Houston Person provides a high-voltage cover version extravaganza, including "(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People" (the Chi-Lites), "Close to You" (the Carpenters), "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yester-Day" (Stevie Wonder), "Young, Gifted and Black" (Aretha Franklin), "Just My Imagination" (the Temptations), and "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which Person describes in his liner notes as the "black national anthem." Person and friends turn every one of these, and others such as his own "Up at Joe's, Down at Jim's" and his trademark "The Houston Express" into stinging, swinging, original-sounding opuses of funk. ~ Chris Slawecki
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