Legends Of Acid Jazz: Tenor Titans

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Performers include: Gene Ammons, Grover Washington Jr., Sonny Stitt, Jerome Richardson, Rusty Bryant, Wilton Felder, Houston Person, David "Fathead" Newman, Eugene Barr, Joe Earland, Charles Kynard, Patrice Rushen, Mickey Roker. Personnel: Billy Butler (guitar, bass guitar); Everett Barksdale, Bill Suyker, Grant Green, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Steve Weakley, Joe Pass, Melvin Sparks (guitar); Hadley Caliman (flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone); David "Fathead" Newman , Gene Ammons, Grover Washington, Jr., Houston Person, Jerome Richardson, Joe Henderson, Rusty Bryant, Sonny Stitt, Wilton Felder (tenor saxophone); Oscar Brashear (trumpet, flugelhorn); Al Pazant, Virgil Jones, Blue Mitchell (trumpet); George Bohannon (trombone); Sonny Phillips (electric piano, organ); Neal Creque, Patrice Rushen (electric piano); Bobby Watley, Butch Cornell, Leon Spencer, Charles Earland, Charles Kynard (organ); Billy Bivens (vibraphone, percussion); Chuck Rainey, Seaborn Westbrook, Jimmy Lewis , Bob Bushnell, Carol Kaye (fretless bass); Idris Muhammad, Jimmy Munford, Mickey Roker, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Paul Humphrey , Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Buddy Caldwell (congas, bongos); Cecil Hunt (congas, percussion); Joseph Armstrong (congas); Kenneth Nash (percussion). Audio Remasterer: Joe Tarantino. Recording information: Berkeley, CA (03/10/1969-08/??/1974); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (03/10/1969-08/??/1974). Arrangers: Patrice Rushen; Reggie Andrews. This 11-song compilation of material from the Prestige vaults, recorded between 1969 and 1974, captures the time at which soul-jazz was turning into funk-jazz and fusion, emphasizing the role of tenor saxophonists. Some of these players are quite well known (Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Rusty Bryant); some famous tenors, like David "Fathead" Newman, Grover Washington, Jr., and Joe Henderson, are heard as sidemen to leaders; and others, be they the saxophonists (Wilton Felder, Eddie Pazant, Jerome Richardson) or their non-sax-playing leaders (Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Billy Butler) are more in the cult or relatively unknown category. Whether or not you're a tenor sax specialist, if you're into soul-jazz this is a fine anthology of the music as it entered its late phase, clocking in at a generous 78 minutes and yielding a good amount of variety within the genre. Sometimes it gets close to psychedelic funk (Funk Inc.'s cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Give Me Your Love"), sometimes to more traditional soul-jazz-with-organ (Charles Kynard's "Slow Burn," Sonny Stitt's "Them Funky Changes"), sometimes to fusion (Patrice Rushen's "How Right Now"), sometimes to James Brown-ish boogaloo (Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers' cover of "Cloud Nine"). ~ Richie Unterberger
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