Melvin Jackson Cold Duck Time pt 1 & 2

Melvin Jackson was the bassist in Eddie Harris' very successful group of the time -- and his playing on Eddie's trippy and funky records for Atlantic is one of the factors that made them so great. Here, he's working with an acoustic bass, amplified with electronics like a Varitone sax -- and this strange-sounding instrument is set up in a hip group that mixes Cadet funky studio players (Phil Upchurch, Morris Jennings, Jody Christian) with some of the brighter young players of the AACM (Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, and Leo Smith.) Jackson's bass is looped through all sorts of crazy effects, and the result is this amazing blend of avant garde playing and groovy rhythms that is beyond compare!

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Music

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• Jazz
• Funk

[maclennan73]

@doctorbeepers It s hard to find, it was re issued in 2009 on the Dusty Groove label the cat no is 3001, its well worth searching for, hope that helps?

[doctorbeepers]

can you upload the whole album man? i cant find this great record anywhere!!