Dean Brown - Here (2000)

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Artist: Dean Brown
Title: Here
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: JVC
Genre: Jazz / Fusion
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 01:08:14
Total Size: 439 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Take This ! (06:33)
02. Gemini (05:43)
03. Back in The Day (04:58)
04. Seven Groove Interlude (00:25)
05. Tell It [Like It Is] (06:38)
06. Big Foot (06:14)
07. The Clave Groove (05:35)
08. Billy Groove Interlude (00:30)
09. Belive Me (06:02)
10. Solid (06:06)
11. Baby You're A Rich Man (04:38)
12. Just For Kicks (04:48)
13. Seven Groove Interlude (00:37)
14. The Battle's Over [for Jaco] (09:22)

Personnel:

Dean Brown (vocals, keyboards, acoustic & electric guitars, bass);
Katreese Barnes, Jerry Barnes (vocals);
Andy Snitzer, David Sanborn (alto saxophone);
Bill Evans, Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone);
Tony Kadleck, Randy Brecker (trumpet);
Michael Davis (trombone);
George Whitty (piano);
Deron Johnson (Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ);
Ricky Peterson (Hammond B-3 organ);
Bernard Wright, George Duke, Gerry Etkins (keyboards);
James Genus, Christian McBride (acoustic bass);
Richard Patterson, Marcus Miller, Schuyler Deale (electric bass);
Michael Bland, Billy Cobham, Juju House, Rocky Bryant (drums);
Don Alias (congas, batas, shaker, clave, bells);
Danny Sadownick (cognas, percussion, clave);
Jason Miles (programming, loops).

Session guitar whiz Dean Brown steps out with his solo debut, a set of tightly played, nicely recorded jazz-funk fusion tunes. Brown's guitar work is undeniably tasty -- drawing equally, it seems, from Jimi Hendrix and Larry Carlton. For support he drafts the biggest of the big names: Michael and Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Billy Cobham, Marcus Miller, George Duke, Christian McBride, and quite a few others. Brown's original music at times lapses into cliché, particularly on the soft jazz throwaway "Believe Me." The vocal cut "Tell It (Like It Is)" and the Beatles cover "Baby You're a Rich Man" also don't add up to much. But the album has its high points: the rocking 6/8 assault of "Solid"; the churning, laid-back syncopation of "The Clave Groove"; and Marcus Miller's fretless bass work on "Gemini." -- David R. Adler

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