Rusty Bryant - FRIDAY NIGHT FUNK FOR SATURDAY NIGHT BROTHERS

[JSngry]

Definitely one of 'em.

But who are these guys? I mean, ok, Rusty Bryant, sure, Khalid Moss, somewhat slightly. But Harold Young (who will indeed be missed)? Eddie Brookshire? Fred Masey?

?

Who are these men who make music that is exactly what an album with a title like this needs to offer in order for it to be real? Maybe it's their anonymity that just makes it that much more real. After all, Unless you're already there, most of the Saturday Night Brothers I've ever known weren't known anywhere else.

But DAMN are these brothers tight, like a real working band that had played this music in its natural environs more times than either they or anybody else could count. No way that this is a pickup band. No way. There's too much breath in the music, too much collective oneness to the groove for it to be a non-working band.

To the best of my knowledge, never reissued, not even as part of 2-fer. That's just wrong. but such is the fate of so many Saturday Night Brothers.

This album is a treasure. Go wherever it is is you go to find such things, pay your respects, feel the love, and never again wonder if there are such things.

[Hot Ptah]

Thanks, Jim. I love getting these recommendations of albums I have never heard of.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This one DID come out on CD, in 1994, but it looks like it was only issued in Britain by Ace - they expected me to buy one, but I'm sticking with my vinyl

I'd have mentioned this before, because it's a classic. But, because it's a classic, I thought everyone interested in Soul Jazz would know about it.

This is one of several blindingly good Soul Jazz albums produced for Prestige in 1972 by the great Ozzie Cadena, who'd replaced Bob Porter on the Soul Jazz front when Fantasy took over the company. The period represents the last GREAT thrash of Prestige. As they were coming out, we could see, just from looking at the titles as we read them in the Schwann catalogue the shop we used got for us every so often, that something special was afoot. "Chicken lickin'"; "Akilah"; "Bad walkin' woman"; "Midnight rider"; "Snake rhythm rock"; "Black whip"; "Hangin' out"; "Big bad Jug"; "Sweet buns & barbecue".

Ah, I'm going to open a different thread about this lot.

MG

[JSngry]

But who was this band? Who were these people?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Basically, it was Rusty's band from Columbus, Ohio. The Cuyahoga is a little stream that runs through or by Columbus (can't remember and it's too late to get out the map). The tune was written by Masey, and you wouldn't know about the stream unless you lived there (or unless you looked it up after seeing the LP ). Kenneth Moss worked with Groove Holmes later on "Dancing in the sun" (Versatile). Norman Jones, according to AMG (so it might be a different Norman Jones), has appeared as a percussionist on a number of way out albums. Harold Young died. Brookshire, I've never heard of.

Just a local band from the midwest A lot better, though, than Boogaloo Joe Jones' band who appeared on his first LP, "The mindbender".

MG

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Basically, it was Rusty's band from Columbus, Ohio. The Cuyahoga is a little stream that runs through or by Columbus (can't remember and it's too late to get out the map). The tune was written by Masey, and you wouldn't know about the stream unless you lived there (or unless you looked it up after seeing the LP ). Kenneth Moss worked with Groove Holmes later on "Dancing in the sun" (Versatile). Norman Jones, according to AMG (so it might be a different Norman Jones), has appeared as a percussionist on a number of way out albums. Harold Young died. Brookshire, I've never heard of.

Just a local band from the midwest A lot better, though, than Boogaloo Joe Jones' band who appeared on his first LP, "The mindbender".

MG

that River runs thru Cleveland and as with most greasy soul jazz ...

... can catch fire if not careful!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Basically, it was Rusty's band from Columbus, Ohio. The Cuyahoga is a little stream that runs through or by Columbus (can't remember and it's too late to get out the map). The tune was written by Masey, and you wouldn't know about the stream unless you lived there (or unless you looked it up after seeing the LP ). Kenneth Moss worked with Groove Holmes later on "Dancing in the sun" (Versatile). Norman Jones, according to AMG (so it might be a different Norman Jones), has appeared as a percussionist on a number of way out albums. Harold Young died. Brookshire, I've never heard of.

Just a local band from the midwest A lot better, though, than Boogaloo Joe Jones' band who appeared on his first LP, "The mindbender".

MG

that River runs thru Cleveland and as with most greasy soul jazz ...

... can catch fire if not careful!

Cleveland... Columbus...

Oh well.

Nice pic. V greasy.

MG

[Michael Weiss]

I used to play this a lot

Fire Eater

Prestige 10014

Idris Muhammed, Wilbert Longmire and Leon Spencer

Edited December 12, 2008 by Michael Weiss

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

yes i know the 1st time i spun it too i thought wow, this is like, um, like exceptionally better and beyond any other funk-related prestige lp or funk lp in general ive ever heard: this was my 1st impression of this one...or was it Returns! w/ grant green...um, wait no i think it was this one...im pretty sure, or maybe it was rusty bryant 78rpm single on DOT, no, it was Sat. nite

[Swinging Swede]

yes i know the 1st time i spun it too i thought wow, this is like, um, like exceptionally better and beyond any other funk-related prestige lp or funk lp in general ive ever heard: this was my 1st impression of this one...or was it Returns! w/ grant green...um, wait no i think it was this one...im pretty sure, or maybe it was rusty bryant 78rpm single on DOT, no, it was Sat. nite

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

yes i know the 1st time i spun it too i thought wow, this is like, um, like exceptionally better and beyond any other funk-related prestige lp or funk lp in general ive ever heard: this was my 1st impression of this one...or was it Returns! w/ grant green...um, wait no i think it was this one...im pretty sure, or maybe it was rusty bryant 78rpm single on DOT, no, it was Sat. nite

MG

[Shawn]

Rusty Bryant is the MAN. One of the few jazz musicians I can think of from West Virginia.