Return Of Mod Jazz – Various Artists CD (Kent)

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01 Sack O’ Woe – Ray Bryant Combo
02 Sweet Lover No More – Gene McDaniels
03 Them Blues – Billie Poole With The Junior Mance Trio
04 Bell Bottoms – Joe Swift’s Internationals
05 Hold It – Kenny Rice And Leo’s Five
06 Have Some Boogaloo – Timmy Thomas
07 East Side – Hank Jacobs
08 Summertime – The George Benson Quartet
09 El Pussy Cat – Mongo Santamaria
10 Liberation – The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One
11 Canteloupe Island – Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers
12 Wild Bird – The Googie Rene Combo
13 Beaver – Clarence Armstrong
14 Twenty Five Miles – Bill Doggett
15 Banana Peels – Johnny Otis
16 Ray’s Theme – Leon Haywood
17 I Love The Life I Live – Mose Allison Trio
18 Monkey Sho’ Can Talk – Red Holloway
19 Top Of The Pops – The Dave Davani Four
20 Get It – The Swingin’ Tomatoes
21 Everytime Part 2 – Buddy Mcknight
22 Getting Into Something – The Tko’s
23 Humdrum Blues – Oscar Brown Jr
24 Hide Out – The Hideaways

Weight 120.00 g
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Return Of Mod Jazz

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Various Artists

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The three button midnight blue mohair is in order, a light blue Oxford cotton button down shirt is laundered, ironed and ready to go. The Bass Weejun loafers are polished and slipped onto your feet. You give yourself a quick once over in the mirror, click your fingers and you’re away. A sharp modernist on the town looking for kicks, and soundtracked by the comeback of the year. THE RETURN OF MOD JAZZ.

It’s been a while, but we are glad to tell you that the original purveyors of the sharp mixture of jazz, latin and R&B sounds is back on the street, with the sort of music that many of the young pretenders would kill to put within their covers. What stronger message of intent could you be laying down than the pictures of Oscar Brown Jr stripy shirt, fingers snapping and Gene McDaniels black suit, cuffs just so with some fine links. Are they on the album? You bet! Oscar working his way through his mod anthem Humdrum Blues while Gene appears with the amazing latin soul of Sweet Lover No More, a single he released on Columbia just before he went to Atlantic to dress up in radical-chic outfits and upset the vice-president of the USA.

Regular purchasers of the series will be aware that mod jazz doesn’t really sit at the high church of jazz appreciation, but rather we plough our own furrow, going with whatever we think has a distinctly jazzy flavour. Of course we are big fans of a vocals and Hammonds, and on this volume we remain firm friends of both. For those who love a touch of the big H we have Clarence Armstrong’s Money rarity the Beaver, his cousin Hank Jacobs both with and without the TKOs, Red Holloway with Jack McDuff, Bill Doggett and Timmy Thomas confusing us all as he urges us to Have Some Boogaloo.

Vocally we have some of the finest, Oscar and Gene of course and George Benson and Mose Allison, whose laconic I Love The Life I Live was a big influence on Georgie Fame. Also from this side of the tracks we have Them Blues by Billie Poole which, so I’m told is picking up some plays in the clubs right now. And we have our own special discovery in the blistering big horned R&B of the Swinging Tomatoes’ Get It.

Elsewhere we let Mongo Santamaria, Pucho and the Afro Blue Quintet give us a full helping of latin soul. Leon Haywood, Dave Davani and Leo’s Five provide us with some swinging grooves, whilst it would be remiss of us to pass over other fine contributions from mod jazz favourites Googie Rene and the Johnny Otis Show.

So if you are to feel the need to dress sharp in the manner described above be sure to use this as the only recommended soundtrack! By Dean Rudland – Ace Records

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