 Исполнитель: Jimmy PonderНазвание альбома: Mean Streets • No Bridges Год выпуска: 1987 Label: Muse Records – MR 5324 Формат файлов: MP3@320K/s Размер архива: 90 MB Скачать с: depositfiles
"I know what a lot of people are saying. 1987? It doesn’t seem like you could find any funky jazz from recent times but what do you know, Jimmy Ponder did it. The album is straight ahead jazz with a little flare to it led by Ponder’s guitar playing. It’s something akin to George Benson or O’Donel Levy. Mean Streets - No Bridges however is a nice little funky piece that starts with a long open drum break before Ponder and organ player John Patton trade off solos." Soulstrut.com
"Ponder’s first album for Muse, Mean Streets-No Bridges, includes a mix of standards, ballads, Latin-jazz, and funky instrumentals. As is characteristic of his following albums, Mean Streets opens with a riff-based shuffle blues (“Next Time You See Me”), which features riff-melodies and blues improvisations that formed the core of his “chitlin circuit” performances. Absent is any need to alter the song form and harmonic language or demonstrate the technical prowess of the bebop era. The musicians are unanimously focused on “just swinging” and creating the right feel. The second track of Mean Streets is a funky cover of the popular Burt Bacharach hit “They Long To Be Close To You,” hailing to the crossover days of interpreting chart-toppers. The choice vocal standard “Time After Time” features Ponder singing with the affect of a Gospel or R&B singer, adding an element of seduction to the album. Mean Streets provides a model for Ponder’s following albums in that it featured a variety of stylistic influences as well as song choices. This approach hails from the “chitlin circuit” where audiences expected a diverse yet blues-rooted selection of music." Colter Harper
A1 Next Time You See Me 4:15
A2 They Long To Be Close To You 4:46
A3 Time After Time 5:04
A4 Mean Street-No Bridges 6:50
B1 Solitude 7:15
B2 I Only Have Eyes For You 4:35
B3 After The Rain 5:06
Guitar, Vocals (A3) – Jimmy Ponder
Tenor Sax, Flute – Bill Saxton
Rhythm Guitar – Geary Moore (A2,4)
Organ – "Big" John Patton
Drums – Greg Bandy
Producer – Joe Fields
Recording Date June 19, 1987 Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
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