BWB - Groovin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:49
Size: 139.2 MB
Styles: R&B, Smooth jazz
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[4:47] 1. Groovin'
[4:51] 2. Brown Sugar
[5:46] 3. Ruby Baby
[5:44] 4. A Woman's Worth
[7:27] 5. Hip Hug Her
[6:41] 6. Mercy Mercy Mercy
[7:21] 7. Let's Do It Again (Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater)
[4:52] 8. It's Your Thing
[7:27] 9. Povo
[5:49] 10. Up For The Down Stroke

This concept sounds like the set-up for a joke: What do you get when you cross three smooth-jazzers with topnotch straight-ahead players? Turns out Norman Brown, Kirk Whalum, and Rick Braun have the last laugh and a damn good time. While they may be three of the most distinct stylists in smooth jazz, they had to turn up the pots to cook with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Keyboardist Ricky Peterson, maybe the funkiest organist in contemporary jazz outside of Larry Goldings, plays a producing role and is probably the MVP of BWB. The players aren't the only stars. The impeccable choice of 10 well-known cover tunes adds to an unapologetically fun record that allows B, W, and B to stretch out much more than they do on other recordings. Braun quotes Freddie Hubbard on "Povo," while Whalum explores Cannonball Adderley on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," and Brown pays back Wes Montgomery throughout the proceedings. From the sexually charged "Let's Do It Again," featuring a purring Dee Dee Bridgewater and a scatting Brown, to the inspired arrangements of Alicia Keys's "A Woman's Worth" and D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar," there are no holes in any of these grooves. ~Mark Ruffin

Groovin'

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BWB - BWB

Size: 101,4 MB
Time: 43:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz, Soul, Funk
Art: Front

01. Triple Dare (3:57)
02. Bust A Move (5:08)
03. Bwb (5:02)
04. Bolly Bop (4:11)
05. I Want You Girl (4:38)
06. Lemonade (4:05)
07. Memphis Steppin' (4:26)
08. Hey Baby (4:19)
09. North Star (4:37)
10. Turn Up (2:47)

You can almost smell the tangy barbecue sauce dripping from the forthcoming third album "BWB" by chart-topping trio BWB, who throw down like a sweaty garage band at a Memphis backyard house party on their debut for the Artistry Music label arriving April 22. It's the first time the band made up of GRAMMY® winners Norman Brown (guitar, vocals) and Kirk Whalum (saxophone, flute, vocals) and Rick Braun (trumpet, flugelhorn, valve trombone, vocals) cooked up a festive, sticky-fingered feast of ten new contemporary jazz, R&B, soul and funk joints. Braun produced the session in his suburban Los Angeles-area home studio where the band moved in with their families and lived together for an entire week. The result is a collaborative disc celebrating brotherhood and live music. The tantalizing title track is the first radio cut, which enters Billboard's Top 10 on next week's singles chart and appears to be ticketed for the top spot.

Anytime the three solo stars get together to record, it's an instant candidate for event album of the year in the contemporary jazz world. BWB has been itching to record original material ever since they first recorded as a high-wattage trio in 2002 when they released a collection of covers entitled "Groovin'." Over a decade later, they reunited as a combo in 2013 with "Human Nature," paying tribute to Michael Jackson's songbook and scoring their first No 1 hit with "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)." This time around, they decided to compose the material entirely on their own, creating party jams specifically with their spirited live shows in mind.

BWB

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BWB - Groovin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:38
Size: 138.8 MB
Styles: Crossover jazz
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[4:45] 1. Groovin'
[4:47] 2. Brown Sugar
[5:44] 3. Ruby Baby
[5:42] 4. A Woman's Worth
[7:26] 5. Hip Hug Her
[6:43] 6. Mercy Mercy Mercy
[7:20] 7. Let's Do It Again
[4:50] 8. It's Your Thing
[7:27] 9. Povo
[5:48] 10. Up for the Down Stroke

This concept sounds like the set-up for a joke: What do you get when you cross three smooth-jazzers with topnotch straight-ahead players? Turns out Norman Brown, Kirk Whalum, and Rick Braun have the last laugh and a damn good time. While they may be three of the most distinct stylists in smooth jazz, they had to turn up the pots to cook with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Keyboardist Ricky Peterson, maybe the funkiest organist in contemporary jazz outside of Larry Goldings, plays a producing role and is probably the MVP of BWB. The players aren't the only stars. The impeccable choice of 10 well-known cover tunes adds to an unapologetically fun record that allows B, W, and B to stretch out much more than they do on other recordings. Braun quotes Freddie Hubbard on "Povo," while Whalum explores Cannonball Adderley on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," and Brown pays back Wes Montgomery throughout the proceedings. From the sexually charged "Let's Do It Again," featuring a purring Dee Dee Bridgewater and a scatting Brown, to the inspired arrangements of Alicia Keys's "A Woman's Worth" and D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar," there are no holes in any of these grooves. ~Mark Ruffin

Groovin'

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