Soul Bro' James Brown Gets Down Good God! the Hardest Working Man in Show Business Still Gets All the Way Teena Marie Down with His Bad Self Eeeeeeow!
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Daily Sundiai, Thursday, November 6, 1986 9 Sundial Turntable Good God! Soul bro' James Brown gets down Good God! The Hardest Working Man In Show Business still gets all the way Teena Marie down with his bad self EeeeeeoW! —ALEX HFNDERSON 'Emerald City' (Epic) Vanilla soul singer Teena Marie holds the distinction of being a white artist Wynton Marsalis who's enjoyed much more success in the black community than in the pop market. 'J Mood' (Columbia)' "Lovergirl" wasn't ^ funk song but marked her greatest success on the pop After the outstanding "Black Codes charts ~ possibly due to its killer guitar From The Underground, " jazz trumpeter solo. Wynton Marsalis returns with an equally impressive album. Although his brother, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, is sorely missed, Wynton and his current group more tfian compensate for the loss. Wynton's contrasts are brilliant on IGGY POP JAIMES BROMfN "Skain's Domain " Here, Wynton's playing is tough and forceful, yet IggyPop melodic. James Brown ""Insane Asylum," although less for ceful than "("hambers Of Tain. ' is 'Blah, Blah, Blah' 'Gravity' (Scotti Bros.) perhaps the album's most aggressive offering. Drummer Jeff "Tain ' Watts, (A and M) for whom ""Chambers" was named, is Before "Living In America," James Iggy Pop, who is known primarily as especially strident and commanding. Brown's career was in a slump He went David Bowie's collaborator (on ""China for years without a major hit, and his Girl," among others) and for his music had long since become tired and outrageous onstage antics of the 70s, has cliched. made what he calls his most "melodic, But thanks to producer Dan Hartman, emotional and honest" album. It was ""America", became The Godfather's worth the wait. best-selhng single since "Say It Loud Produced by Bowie and David Richards of Queen, "Blah, Blah, Blah" On "Emerald City," Lady T's seventh (I'm Black and I'm Proud) " in 1968. album, she makes a conscious effort to Hartman, who embraced rock with the probably will be regarded by The Ig's hardcore fans from way back as their cross over. Although soulful, "You So Edgar Winter Group but went on to enjoy Heavy" is a slow, seductive tune with a such R&B pop hits as "Instant Replay "in man's big sellout — just as "Let's Dance" was felt by many to be Bowie's. definite rock feel, and it reaches an 1978 and "I Can Dream About You" in It's a work that's immensely listenable explosive climax with Stevie Ray 1984, took a fresh and different approach and even contains some cuts that could Vaughn's guitar solo. Similarly, the to the soul veteran's sound be played on (Oh, no!) Top40 radio. But ballad "Love Me Down Easy" boasts the "Gravity," J.B.'s first album for Scotti the power of the music and the intensity type of soulful drama that made "Por Bros. / CBS, is to Brown what "Private of the lyrics puts the album leagues tugese Love" aiKi "Out On A Limb" so Dancer" was to Tina Turner — a brilliant above anything you'll hear on the air appealing, but it has more of a pop edge. "cometwck" showing the artist to be waves today. Lady T, who has proficiently handled anything t>ut a "has-t>een." Hartman and WYNTON MARSALIS Pop has co-written all but one of the jazz in the past ("Casanova Brown," his partner, Charlie Midnight, wrote the "Tune In Tomorrow"), excels on "Sunny But overall, ""J Mood'' chooses tracks — a synthesizer-backed cover of album — Brown does no songwriting Skies." Its jazz flavor is enchanced by caressing arrangments over aggression. the 1950s rocker "Real Wild Child (Wild whatsoever this time. bassist Stanley Clarke and saxophonist "Melodique " has the type of dreamy, One) " Five were written with Bowie and And it's just as well. For such frenzied Branford Marsalis, whose solo at the end ethereal quality that made "Aural Oasis" three with ex-Sex Pistols guitarist Steve funk as "lyet's Get Personal" and "Turn is brilliantly passionate. so captivating. On "After" and the Jones. Me Loose, I'm Dr. Feelgood" is distinctly Marie's love of jazz also is evident on J.B. but with new and modern twists The melancholy "Presence That Lament Pop, who turns 40 next year, seems to Brings," Wynton's trumpet interacts "'Batucada Suite," which fuses the style type of punchy horns associated with The have made peace with himself in terms l)eautifully with Marcus Roberts' piano. with Brazilian music. Godfather al>ound, although synthesizers of wanting fulfilling relationships, and Throughout the album, Wynton and this new-found emotion is the theme of In the funk department. Lady T is and drum machines update his sound. Roberts have a dynamic rapport, one his current work. striking on "Once Is Not Enough" and Hit me! Saxophonist Maceo Parker, the title track, a smoker featuring vocals that almost matches the splendid com Bowie has borrowed from Pop liberally who played with Mr. Please Please for by long-time George Clinton disciple munication Wynton had with Branford. over the years — especially his vocal several years betore joining George Bootsy Collins. Chnton's Parliament Funkadelic em Wynton presently is the only trumpeter style — and the fact that these two artists who rivals the inventivness with which work well together is quite apparent Marie is easily one of the most exciting pire, performs a mean solo on the singers of the decade, a fact she proves funkified "Goliath." But as strong as Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard ap^ here. proach the instrument. Wynton isn't on "Emerald City." "Gravity's" funk is. Brown fares equally afraid to take risks — a quality that on the ballads, "How Da You Stop" and —CAROL ESTOCKO — ALEX HENDERSON makes ""J Mood" the absorbing work it "Return To Me" — Iwth of which contain is. as much commandiiig drama he gave "King Heroin" and "This Is A Man's COMEDIANS NEEDED World." —ALEX HENDERSON for The A.S. Blood Drive Returns Next Week 1 A/^A TEUR NIGHT TUES NOVEMBER 25 8 30p m. Apply now in the Associated Students Off ice located in the upper level of the University ' _„ • Student Union. A-208 ^ AUDI TIONS WILl BF HFl D ON ^_____^ NOV I 2 AND NOV I 3 (No experience necessary) Monday - Thursday, Nov. 10-13 GREAT EXPOSURE AND Mon.-Tues. & Thurs. — USU Santa Clarita Room 9;15 AM - 2 PM Wed. — USU Santa Clarita Room, second fioor 8:15 AM -1 PM & 1:15 - 6 PM EXPERIENCE!)! 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