Sorry for that hiatus folks. I hope you're still out there. I just needed a bit of a break. After a trip to New Orleans for Jazzfest and a dynamite Sharon Jones show at the House of Blues I'm re-energized. I have but one song today but it's a killer.
"Tenor saxophonist Cedric "Im" Brooks is one of Jamaica's most adventuresome musicians. Born in 1943 in Kingston, Brooks has the heart of a bop jazzman beating to a reggae rhythm, and his experiments with ancient rasta nyahbinghi drum patterns has led him to fuse elements of calypso, rhumba, jazz, Afro-beat, funk, Latin, and soul into a totally unique Sun Ra-like synthesis." This unique blend is exemplified on the track Blackness Of Darkness. It starts straight ahead jazz but it transforms midway and suddenly goes full force reggae. Very cool stuff and the perfect song for the changing season. You can find this late '70's track on the Strut Records 2008 compilation Calypsoul 70. Enjoy!
Cedric Im Brooks: Blackness Of Darkness
3 comments:
Hey BWM:
Welcome back from your break! You were missed.
TGrundy
Rhythms In Black Satin.com
I appreciate that! I thought I was all alone out here! Good to be back.
BWM: Nope, you're not alone. AAMOF, I have your blog on my "radar" (a.k.a. my RSS feed {smile}) and I also pick selected posts from here to feature on my other site, NetInfoWeb.com, which I've turned into a blog aggregator site. Anything I post there (NetInfoWeb) is just an excerpt and links back to the originating site so folks can view the full post. Trying to give some notoriety to good music sites I like and give back to the online music community focused on soul, r&b, etc. music.
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