dougcrates Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 (edited) The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. Here is the Product Description: The album contains five self composed tracks of Spiritual and at times very funky Jazz. Black Love is an anthem celebrating Black Culture and features the beautiful and powerful vocals of Ayodele Jenkins. Banks of the Nile is another up tempo and at times almost frantic Spiritual Jazz workout. Mother of the Future has become a jazz dance classic with Dee Dee Bridgewater taking the lead vocals on this slightly freer original version. The version recorded by Norman Connors featuring Jean Carne later in the same year is better known, but this version really cooks with fantastic rhythms and a great solo from Carlos. The yodelling by Carlos Chambers is reminiscent of Leon Thomas and adds another touch of ancestral heritage to the recording. Ebonesque is beautiful whilst Taurus Woman is the albums funkiest track, its twelve and half minutes allowing many members of the band to contribute a fine solo, most notably Mauricio Smith who is excellent on flute. We are delighted to present this album on CD as part of our Classic album series for the first time in nearly twenty years , re-mastered and sounding fresher than ever. This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Edited February 28, 2014 by dougcrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 That's interesting news. Cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Much love for Black Love!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Some of those albums are better than others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Some of those albums are better than others. Yep. 'Journey To Enligntenment' and 'Let This Melody Ring On' have always been the gems for me. 'Black Love' is less than the sum of it's parts, has always sounded underrehearsed to my ears, though I do like it. Norman Connors' version of "Mother of the Future" on the otherwise tepid 'Slewfoot' shreds Garnett's version (Garnett does play on the Connors version). The last two 70's Muse albums by Garnett don't really cut it at all compared to the first three. His comeback stuff in the 90's on Muse and High Note is very strong, but in a different style, lacking the uniqueness of the 70's recordings. Time and place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Fans of Mr. Garnett need to hear Andrew Hill's Lift Every Voice. Even if you don't like jazz choirs. (Sorry; not on Muse.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 And Lift Every Voice is coming out next month on SHM-CD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougcrates Posted February 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 (edited) The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year". Edited February 28, 2014 by dougcrates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year". Sorry....can't see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougcrates Posted February 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year". Sorry....can't see it I added the product description from Amazon UK to the first post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 The UK reissue label, Soul Brother Records, will be reissuing all five Muse albums over the next year. Black Love will get things started on April 7th. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Love-Carlos-Garnet/dp/B00IO0X1LS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1393558514&sr=1-3&keywords=soul+brother+records Thanks for the heads-up, doug. Can I ask where you got the information about all five being released. Their website (if this is it) http://www.soulbrother.co.uk/ hasn't been updated for a long time. The last sentence of the linked Amazon Product Description: "This is the first of five Carlos Garnett Muse albums that we will be issuing on CD over the next year". Sorry....can't see it I added the product description from Amazon UK to the first post. Thanks for that Doug.....I don't want you to think I'm questioning what you say, it's just that I cannot seem to find the product description you refer to on the Amazon page of your link. Ah well, it's not the first time I haven't been able to see for looking.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougcrates Posted May 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Soul Brother is continuing their Muse reissue program with Walter Bishop's Soul Village due June 23rd. Product Description: Walter Bishop, Jr. grew up in Harlem and was teenage friends with Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. He played in bands led by Art Blakey, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and others from the late 40s onwards. He led his own bands from the early 60s and recorded two good albums for the Black Jazz label in the early 70s. After a spell teaching in Los Angeles, he returned to New York and signed with Muse records and recorded this iconic jazz fusion album Soul Village in 1977. It includes the classic Soul Turnaround, a track he had previously recorded for Black Jazz and Freddie Hubbard had covered it on Atlantic, but this is the definitive version featuring Randy Brecker, Steve Khan and other notable fusion musicians and Bish on Fender Rhodes. The full album gained notoriety through thye late 70s and early 80s, part of the soundtrack to the jazz funk and soul movement of the period, championed by DJ Robbie Vincent on his BBC Radio show where many of the tracks were featured. Walter died in 1998 aged 70, performing until the end, including at Londons Bass Clef a few years before he died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 That Walter Bishop album is quite nice, though I like other stuff I've got of his better.Re Garnett: all I've got of his is on thisCharles Earland - Slammin' & jammin' - SavantThis is from 1997. Is it typical of his post 70s work, his pre-70s work or nothing else he's done?MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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