Re: Who are the New Jersey Kings?
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5rten_Brink?= (marten.brink@mbox200.swipnet.se)
Sun, 05 May 1996 13:57:27 -0500
> I'm a late bloomer tuning into the New Jersey Kings. I've heard their
> first album "Party to the Bus Stop" and their latest, "Stratosphere
> Breakdown". The album cover art* is extremely bad (as in the not-good sense),
> but the music just grooves. The liner notes imply that the NJK is some
> obscure American funk band from the 70s whose session tapes were
> discovered recently in some vault. I don't seem to buy that. Definitely
> sounds like it was recorded in the past few years, and by British
> musicians (more like old Jersey than New Jersey, heh). There's no
> mention of songwriting credit (othern than to the NJK themselves) or band
> members...Methinks the NJK is a side-project of various Acid Jazz label
> musicians - their stuff is very much in the BNH/JTQ vein.
Youre so close your sitting on it :) In fact New Jersey Kings ARE the
James Taylor Quartet. This is never listed except I think on Totally
Wired two or something. The reason for the Party To the Bus Stop album
was that JTQ wanted to record a record for friends on the AcidJazz label
but didn't get permission from their own label (BigLife at the time I
think). So they used the NJK-name instead. Excellent stuff.....
But a question for you - Statosphere Breakdown?!!!? New release?!?!?!
I've missed out on this one and I want it!!!! Please give me a little
info if possible (like rec.no, songs etc)
/marten
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Donald Byrd - Dominoes (live)
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