Howard Johnson & Gravity - Right Now! (1997) CD Rip
BAND/ARTIST: Howard Johnson & Gravity
- Title: Right Now!
- Year Of Release: 1997
- Label: Verve Records[314 537 801-2]
- Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
- Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
- Total Time: 61:13
- Total Size: 419 MB(+3%)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
1 Right Now - Tolliver 9:19
2 It's Getting Harder to Survive - Barron 9:25
3 Tell Me a Bedtime Story - Hancock 3:37
4 Frame for the Blues - Hampton 5:50
5 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Greene 5:58
6 Ma-Ma - Semenya 7:35
7 Svengali's Summer/Waltz - Evans 10:27
8 Fever - Little Willie John 2:47
9 O Raggedy Man - Johnson 5:59
personnel :
Howard Johnson: Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, Pennywhistle, Vocals
Earl McIntyre, Dave Bargeron, Joseph Daley, Bob Stewart, Carl Kleinsteuber: Tuba
Taj Mahal - Vocals
James Cammack: Bass
Ray Chew: Piano
Kenwood Dennard: Drums
The idea of a tuba sextet might seem a bit too daffy a defiance of the laws of gravity, but Hojo's ensemble -- nicknamed Gravity -- comes up with some surprisingly mellifluous textures on their second album to date. Though the playing sounds staggeringly clumsy on the opening title track, things quickly coalesce thereafter. The tuba harmonies oddly often bear a pleasing kinship with those of Steve Turre's massed conch shells, and the shadow of Gil Evans is everywhere. The eclectic sometime bluesician Taj Mahal -- who first worked with Johnson's tuba ensemble back in 1971 -- revives their long-dormant collaboration by appearing on three tracks, including a Ray Charles-ish "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (catch the echoes of Evans' "Blues for Pablo" in the tubas). As a perhaps deliberately extreme juxtaposition, Johnson also solos attractively on the tiny pennywhistle on Herbie Hancock's "Tell Me a Bedtime Story," beautifully realized by the group, and moves jaggedly out in front of the band on baritone sax as well. Elegant fun.~Richard S. Ginell
1 Right Now - Tolliver 9:19
2 It's Getting Harder to Survive - Barron 9:25
3 Tell Me a Bedtime Story - Hancock 3:37
4 Frame for the Blues - Hampton 5:50
5 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Greene 5:58
6 Ma-Ma - Semenya 7:35
7 Svengali's Summer/Waltz - Evans 10:27
8 Fever - Little Willie John 2:47
9 O Raggedy Man - Johnson 5:59
personnel :
Howard Johnson: Tuba, Baritone Saxophone, Pennywhistle, Vocals
Earl McIntyre, Dave Bargeron, Joseph Daley, Bob Stewart, Carl Kleinsteuber: Tuba
Taj Mahal - Vocals
James Cammack: Bass
Ray Chew: Piano
Kenwood Dennard: Drums
The idea of a tuba sextet might seem a bit too daffy a defiance of the laws of gravity, but Hojo's ensemble -- nicknamed Gravity -- comes up with some surprisingly mellifluous textures on their second album to date. Though the playing sounds staggeringly clumsy on the opening title track, things quickly coalesce thereafter. The tuba harmonies oddly often bear a pleasing kinship with those of Steve Turre's massed conch shells, and the shadow of Gil Evans is everywhere. The eclectic sometime bluesician Taj Mahal -- who first worked with Johnson's tuba ensemble back in 1971 -- revives their long-dormant collaboration by appearing on three tracks, including a Ray Charles-ish "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (catch the echoes of Evans' "Blues for Pablo" in the tubas). As a perhaps deliberately extreme juxtaposition, Johnson also solos attractively on the tiny pennywhistle on Herbie Hancock's "Tell Me a Bedtime Story," beautifully realized by the group, and moves jaggedly out in front of the band on baritone sax as well. Elegant fun.~Richard S. Ginell
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