Paris Jazz Corner

Verve 1964 (réf. 557 452-2 .)

Featuring :
Oscar Brown (vocals), Curtis Boyd (drums), Herbert Brown, Floyd Morris (piano), Phil Upchurch (bass)

CD, stereo, second hand, 11.00 €
[12.98 US$, 1,426.70 ¥]

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When the enemies of liberation - political, artistic, and personal - were monolithic, an unprecedented talent arrived to combat them all. Cabaret singer, actor, and librettist as well as lyricist - Mahalia Jackson and Abbey Lincoln had recorded his tunes before he did - Oscar Brown, Jr. broke with the jazz crooners and blue shouters, sidestepped vocalese, and presaged Gil Scott-Heron, the Last Poets, and rap. His words meant as much as any protest singer's - only they were accompanied by a jazzman's tempo, rhyme, and humor.

1. one life
2. beautiful girl
3. maxine
4. maggie
5. living double in a world of trouble
6. glorious tired feeling
7. tower of time
8. muffled drums
9. brother where are you ?
10. forty acres and a mule
11. call of the city
12. summer in the city
13. brother where are you ?