Re: CTI label recommendations

From: Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@speakeasy.org)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 03:52:27 MET DST

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    At 5:26 PM -0700 4/5/00, Leslie wrote:
    >Joe Farrell, a great
    >flautist who, I think, has since graduated to the Great Orchestra in the
    >Sky. Creed Taylor was definitely on to a certain kind of sound that has an
    >element of timelessness to it.
    >
    >leslie/The Power of Sound

    _Moongerms_ is an excellent record. Doug Watson's webpages have lots
    of pointers to good CTI records:
    http://www.magma.ca/~dwatson/Kozmidx.html

    Though they did much work that makes purists happier, I'm really fond
    of the Deodato & Lalo Schifrin CTI dates. Bob James, bien sur.
    Hubbard, Szabo, Laws, Airto, Turrentine, Desmond, Hall, Weston,
    Jackson-- hard to go wrong as long as you're coming at it from the
    direction you're coming at it from, & not a jazz-purist angle.

    CTI Discograpy:
    http://siteworks.clever.net/szabo/cti.htm

    Truly excellent site, especially the photo gallery!:

    http://siteworks.clever.net/szabo/pturne10.htm

    Definitely the MPS of the USA--

    You should also investigate the production work of the Mizell
    Brothers-- there's a comp floating around called _Sky High_, I think;
    or pick up the appropriate Donald Byrd/Johnny Hammond Smith records.
    Those early Blackbyrds records are pretty great; Grover Washington
    Jr's (yuh-huh) _Inner City Blues_ (on the not-to-be-ignored CTI
    sublabel Kudu) & _Mister Magic_ are also right there in that
    airy-but-not-too-"smooov" jazzfunk niche.

    -- 
    

    Jason Witherspoon ICQ #62837760

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