ghost of miles
Jan 12 2005, 02:24 PM
Just came across two LPs in the station library with which I was unfamiliar: 1972's MOVIN' ON (which has evidently been re-issued on CD by both 32 Jazz and Collectables) and 1973's BROTHER WHERE ARE YOU? How do these hold up against his early-1960s work?
I'll be doing a Night Lights program about Brown on Feb. 5.
P.D.
Jan 12 2005, 02:46 PM
I like Oscar Brown Jr a lot, but none of the later albums seem as satisfying as the early Columbias. Perhaps the later albums suffer from becoming familiar with Browns work and they don't seem to offer the surprises in lyrics, humour and jazz orientation that the earlier albums did. However if doing a program on Oscar, I guess you will have to offer a repredentative track or two from his later work.
MartyJazz
Jan 18 2005, 12:54 AM
| QUOTE (P.D. @ Jan 12 2005, 02:46 PM) |
| I like Oscar Brown Jr a lot, but none of the later albums seem as satisfying as the early Columbias. Perhaps the later albums suffer from becoming familiar with Browns work and they don't seem to offer the surprises in lyrics, humour and jazz orientation that the earlier albums did. However if doing a program on Oscar, I guess you will have to offer a repredentative track or two from his later work. |
Around the same time as the Columbia LPs, a live session was issued on the Fontana label, titled "Oscar Brown Jr. Live in Washington". That is also quite good and very much on a par with the Columbia studio sessions
Noj
Jan 18 2005, 12:59 AM
I have Movin' On and I like it, especially the track "Ladies' Man." My favorite track of his I have on an Atlantic compilation, a funked-up version of "But I Was Cool" from 1974--maybe that's on that other album.
His earlier material has instrumentation that is jazzier, while this stuff is funky. He's funny and fun to listen to either way, in my book.
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