Track Listings (9) - Disc #1| All Artists: Oliver Lake, Steel Quartet Title: Kinda Up Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Justin Time Records Original Release Date: 3/7/2000 Release Date: 3/7/2000 Genres: Jazz, Pop Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 068944013623 |
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 | Oliver Lake, Steel Quartet Kinda Up Genres: Jazz, Pop
As a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet, Oliver Lake has quite an avant-jazz pedigree. But he's also got a fiercely funky side to him, and it's that portion of his soul that enlivens Kinda' Up. To be sure, Lake... more » |
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Amazon.com As a founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet, Oliver Lake has quite an avant-jazz pedigree. But he's also got a fiercely funky side to him, and it's that portion of his soul that enlivens Kinda' Up. To be sure, Lake's second Up incarnation (the first, Oliver Lake and Jump Up dates to 1981) is oddly funky. He's got the irreproachable Pheeroan AkLaff on drums, Reginald Washington on electric bass, and Lyndon Achee on steel drums. The funk is on, especially from Washington's popping corner, and so, too, is the strange shadowing that the steel drums enact around Lake's tones. When he's scaling the fence, with fast leaps and chilled midrange alto seasoning coming in equal measures, the splashy steel drum makes for great resonance. It also peaks and dips with Lake as he soars and swoops, with the AkLaff and Washington team pulling the rhythms this way and that and, as they say, kickin' it. There's poignancy ("Goodbye Porkpie Hat") and outright soul ("Brooke Rap") and in between a catalog of shifts that keeps you listening closely. --Andrew Bartlett Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsAmazing! Mark Twain | United States | 04/05/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I saw these guys in NYC on a friend's recommendation and immediately bought this album when it came out. (and another for a gift). Oliver Lake has been playing for years and his craftsmanship shows. This album has the most original and best use of Steel Drum in a jazz style. It's really worth listening to." Most joyous jazz record of all time? Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 01/28/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Why do so many brilliant, original, monumentally creative jazz musicians get virtually ignored? Case in point: Oliver Lake. The fiery alto and soprano saxophonist has made many fine albums, but is almost invisible on the jazz scene (which itself represents less than 5% of records sold). Kinda Up is his finest. He'd wanted to make a record with a steel drummer for some time, but had never found one he thought would properly mesh with his unique sound and concept. He found a wonderful partner in Lyndon Achee, who takes a very in-your-face approach to his instrument. About as far removed from the refined approach of Andy Narell (himself a very fine player) as one could get, Achee plays steel drums with an abandon I've never heard before. Much of the music features intense melodic doubling of sax and steel drums, with additional tricky harmonic passages adding sophistication and mystery. The result is a kind of musical exuberance seldom if ever encountered in a jazz instrumental setting. Special mention should be made of Pheeroan akLaff. This well-traveled and very accomplished drummer seems to have found the perfect musical partnership here: He's a literal monster on his kit, pushing the proceedings practically over the edge all the while providing amazing color and rhythmic chicanery. Also worth mentioning is Lake's soprano playing. He gets the brightest, most penetrating sound of anyone I've heard on this difficult instrument.With its effervescent personality, its masterful musicianship, its entirely engaging island ethos--probably most clearly manifested in the Calypso "Yes You Broke"--Kinda Up is one of my all-time favorite jazz albums."
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