Reuben Wilson - The Sweet Life

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:20
Size: 76.3 MB
Styles: Jazz-Funk-Soul
Year: 1972/2008
Art: Front

[4:44] 1. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
[5:30] 2. Cream Puff
[6:11] 3. Sugar
[6:24] 4. I'll Take You There
[6:12] 5. The Sweet Life
[4:16] 6. Never Can Say Goodbye

After a series of sugary soul-jazz dates for Blue Note, Reuben Wilson resurfaced on Groove Merchant with The Sweet Life. The title notwithstanding, the session is his darkest and hardest-edged to date, complete with a physicality missing from previous efforts. Credit tenor saxophonist Ramon Morris, trumpeter Bill Hardman, guitarist Lloyd Davis, bassist Mickey Bass, and drummer Thomas Derrick, whose skin-tight grooves sand away the polished contours of Wilson's organ solos to reveal their diamond-sharp corners. The material, while predictable (i.e., standbys like "Inner City Blues" and "Never Can Say Goodbye"), is nevertheless well suited to the set's righteous funk sound. ~Jason Ankeny

The Sweet Life

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