Re: Reviews requested: Bluezeum, Hip Strut, Urbanator II

Mark Allerton (Mark@warmspot.compulink.co.uk)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:11:35 +0100

At 11:22 PM 10/15/96 -0400, you wrote:
>the other is Urbanator's "Urbanator II" (this one unites "contemporary
>jazz, R&B, Hip Hop with that Urbanator flare"--um, the context here would

I've got the first Urbanator LP, which could be summed up as "famous
fusion-heads play at hip-hop jazz" (Urbanator includes people like Michael
Urbaniak & Lenny White.) It's got a slamming cover version of "Chameleon" on
it (_wicked_ drums), spoiled by some pretty weak rapping - the rest of the
LP is OK, but not much else made me want to hit the rewind button. I
wouldn't mind hearing the new one, but I wouldn't buy it "on spec".

..Mark..
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