Maceo Parker - Roots Revisited: The Bremen Concert Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: Roots Revisited: The Bremen Concert   Disc 1

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:41
Size: 162,2 MB
Art: Front

(14:34)  1. Mcgriff's Blues
(13:03)  2. For the Elders
( 9:00)  3. Up & Down East Street
(10:07)  4. Shake Everything You've Got
( 7:25)  5. Peace Fugue
(16:29)  6. Everywhere Is out of Town

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Album: Roots Revisited: The Bremen Concert   Disc 2

Time: 76:40

Size: 175,9 MB

(10:34)  1. Inarticulate Speech of the Heart

(13:31)  2. House Party

(13:18)  3. People Get Ready - Them That Got

(10:58)  4. Chicken

( 7:20)  5. Doing It to Death

(20:57)  6. Soul Power 1990 / Let Him out / Shake Everything You've Got

Live recordings are, by definition, a snapshot in time, a back beat of memory, a droplet of adrenaline forever suspended in amber. But as part of a tour, the most enduring live recordings deliver an additional, broader context, summoning up the overall spirit, the predominant mood, the zeitgeist, of that group of musicians in the process of evolving a chemistry between themselves, as well as with their audiences. The Bremen Concert does precisely that. It celebrates 25 years since the release of Maceo Parker's breakthrough album ''Roots Revisited'', which propelled him forwards from a career as a James Brown and George Clinton sideman to influential leader in his own right and back towards the music that he listened to growing up. This Bremen show is a definitive distillation of the band Maceo took out on tour after the album's release, a tour which connected him to a younger audience, encountering for the first time his music, his showmanship and his authenticity. The taproot of that band was the coming together of two generations of musicians. The elder (though absolutely not elderly, just older) were the three horns who had worked so often together in the James Brown bands Maceo himself on alto sax, tenor player Pee Wee Ellis, and trombonist Fred Wesley. Their younger rhythm section came out of the New York jazz scene: Larry Goldings on organ, with Rodney Jones on guitar and Bill Stewart on drums. This recording, from November 1990, comes from the latter half of that tour, which mixed dates at smaller jazz clubs with a handful of festival appearances. Bremen fell somewhere in between, a larger venue holding around 800. The audience there was predominantly in their 20s and 30s, not a typical jazz audience, producer Stephan Meyner says. Shortly after the release of ''Roots Revisited'', which had performed as well in Germany as in the States (where it had topped the Billboard jazz charts), they wanted to hear that mix of jazz and RnB, and funk. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Roots-Revisited-Concert-Maceo-Parker/dp/B009F4CCYY

Roots Revisited: The Bremen Concert Disc 1, Disc 2

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