Dustygroove's take;
A lost bit of funky 70s jazz – featuring the John Minnis Big Band from the Philly scene! Minnis leads the group on trombone and keyboards, and the album's got a feel that's right up there with the best electric big band styles of the time – grooving hard on some tracks, and kicking back and going for a sweet and soulful sound on others. Instrumentation includes keyboards, guitar, and lots of horns – and vocals on the set are by Minnis, and a backing group that includes David Simmons. The massive track on here is a long free flowing jammer called "What Can You Do?", and it's a jazz dance classic with rolling bass, choppy guitar, and sharp sax solos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j__sUI6h6F4
ReplyDeleteThis is great - really need to hunt down the album now, sounds like there's some other great tracks on it too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tobias
ReplyDeleteIt's fairly new to me as well, there was a decent re-issue of this lp brought out a few years back
Yes a great track......hard copy way out of my league though !
ReplyDeleteHi Katonah,
ReplyDeleteFantastic that you do such snappy reviews, would you be willing to review Dom Sales' upcoming album Lullabies and Dreams if I send you a hard copy?
https://soundcloud.com/jellymould-jazz/sets/the-quiet-band-lullabies-7
Hi Megan
ReplyDeleteThat would be fantastic.
If you drop your email address in a comment and I will delete it straight away
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Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for turning me onto this Katonah!