Yet Mo' Mod Jazz

by N/A

Overview

Like its companion volumes in the Ace catalog (Mod Jazz and Mo' Mod Jazz), Yet Mo' Mod Jazz is a delightful anthology of hip but danceable jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, with a great deal of soul music often entering the equation. This 26-track CD may be more limited than the other Ace sets in its scope of source material, drawing exclusively from the Atlantic vaults between 1957 and 1969, but it's no less eclectic in its musical variety. There are fairly little-heard cuts by Ray Charles ("Get on the Right Track Baby," covered by Georgie Fame in the 1960s), King Curtis, Mose Allison, Esther Phillips, and LaVern Baker alongside quite cool excursions into pop-funk-soul-jazz by Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Johnny Griffin, Hubert Laws, Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. It's also flexible enough to insert some mighty enjoyable cuts by artists that purists would snub as not jazzy or soulful enough to keep this company. Up that alley there's Mel Torme, whose "Right Now" was the B-side of his famous "Comin' Home Baby"; Mark in Trio's pre-Santana Latin funk on "Tres Lobos"; the all-out honkin' sax R&B of Tommy Ridgley's "Jam Up Twist"; and Byron Lee & the Ska Kings, who do ska jazz fusion with "Watermelon Man Ska." Of course, Les McCann & Eddie Harris' "Compared to What" is a famous recording that's not been hard to get on other CDs, though its appearance here does not make it any less enjoyable. This is one of those rare anthologies, in any genre, where the quality is consistently high enough to make it difficult to single out favorites, and is also one of the jazz anthologies most likely to be enjoyed by rock and soul fans who don't consider jazz a main interest. [This U.K. import is not available for sale in North America.] ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	09/25/2006
Label:	Kent
UPC:	0029667218429
Rank:	103074

Tracks

1. Memphis Soul Stew  -  King Curtis
2. The Sidewinder  - Tamiko Jones
3. Right Now  - Mel Torme
4. Listen Here  - Eddie Harris
5. Memphis Underground  - Herbie Mann
6. Twist City  - Johnny Griffin
7. Heartbreaker  - Ray Charles
8. Wild Man on the Loose  - Mose Allison
9. Burnin' Coal  - Les McCann
10. Compared to What  - Eddie Harris
11. Do It to Death  - Jackie Ivory
12. Jet Set  - Dave Pike
13. Love-In  -  Lloyd
14. Tres Lobos
15. Fever  - Esther Phillips
16. You're the Boss  - LaVern Baker
17. Get on the Right Track Baby  - Ray Charles
18. Jam Up Twist  - Tommy Ridgley
19. Watermelon Man Ska  - Byron Lee
20. Sticks & Stones, Pt. 1  - Gene Ludwig
21. The Foolkiller  - Mose Allison
22. Bloodshot  - Hubert Laws
23. It's a Funky Thing-Right On, Pt. 1  - Herbie Mann
24. Sombrero Sam  -  Lloyd
25. One Note Samba, Pt. 2  -  Almeida
26. When a Man Loves a Woman  - Eddie Harris

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ray Charles   Primary Artist
Laurindo Almeida & the Modern Jazz Quartet   Primary Artist
Jackie Ivory   Primary Artist
Tamiko Jones   Primary Artist
Gene Ludwig   Primary Artist
Eddie Harris   Primary Artist
Johnny Griffin   Primary Artist
Hubert Laws   Primary Artist
Les McCann   Primary Artist
Esther Phillips   Primary Artist
Mel Torme   Primary Artist
Dave Pike   Primary Artist
Tommy Ridgley   Primary Artist
Byron Lee   Primary Artist
Herbie Mann   Primary Artist
LaVern Baker   Primary Artist
Mose Allison   Primary Artist
The Charles Lloyd Quartet   Primary Artist
King Curtis   Primary Artist