Re: cantaloupe island (was Re: AJ LANDMARKS SINCE LATE 80'S)

Erik Gaderlund
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:27:47 -0700


Jim wrote:
>
>Not to beat an extremely tired horse here, and not to get all uptight
>stuffy jazz criticky on all of you, but it was Freddie Hubbard playing
>on the Herbie Hancock version. Its seems important to me, since the
>trumpet player in Us3 seems to imitate his solo from the original, which
>is not Donald Byrd.
>
I saw them live and Gerald is a great horn player, I just wish the album
had the energy of the horn section live.

>Yeah, they got played out, wasn't much into their rhymes, but (thanks to
>signing on Capital) they got access to the whole Blue Note catalog and
>used it quite thoroughly, even getting their name from a Horace Parlan
>session. Tukka Yoot's Rhythm samples "Sookie Sookie" by Grant Green, a
>song that gets my vote as an AJ Landmark. Landmark makes is seem a bit
>dated, though, and to me this shit is still fresh--I lean towards
>"classic track."
>
The best use of a sample though has to be Horace Silvers' "Song For My
Father" in "Eleven Long Years" where Tukka Yoot raps about his enstragment
from his father.

erik g