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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Brian Auger
:: Title.......> Auger Rhythms: Brian Auger's Musical History
:: Label.......>
:: Genre.......> Jazz+funk
:: Rip.Date....> Feb-21-2006
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Joint-Stereo
:: Play Time...> 151:01 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: CD 1
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:: 01. Brian Auger - Blues Three Four
:: 02. Brian Auger - East of the Sun
:: 03. Brian Auger - Poinciana
:: 04. Brian Auger - There is No Greater Love
:: 05. Brian Auger - if You Could See Me Now
:: 06. Brian Auger - Moanin'
:: 07. Brian Auger - Sister Sadie
:: 08. Brian Auger - Misty
:: 09. Brian Auger - I've Gotta Go Now
:: 10. Brian Auger - Break it Up
:: 11. Brian Auger - Inside of Him
:: 12. Brian Auger - this Wheel's on Fire
:: 13. Brian Auger - Season of the Witch
:: 14. Brian Auger - A Day in the Life
:: 15. Brian Auger - Tropic of Capricorn
:: 16. Brian Auger - Light My Fire
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:: CD 2
::
:: 01. Brian Auger - Listen Here
:: 02. Brian Auger - Freedom Jazz Dance
:: 03. Brian Auger - Second Wind
:: 04. Brian Auger - Happiness is Just Around the Bendn
:: 05. Brian Auger - Inner City Blues
:: 06. Brian Auger - Straight Ahead
:: 07. Brian Auger - Brain Damage
:: 08. Brian Auger - Beginning Again
:: 09. Brian Auger - Bumpin' on Sunset
:: 10. Brian Auger - Indian Rope Man
:: 11. Brian Auger - Slide
:: 12. Brian Auger - the Lady's in Love
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:: Release Notes:
::
:: Auger Rhythms, the double-disc career overview of the last 40
:: years by Brian Auger, is, quite simply, a textbook case for
:: what a career retrospective should be ù outside of a box set
:: that is, though it would be great if Ghosttown Records would
:: get around to that as well. Auger is not simply a musician
:: who did one thing and perfected or milked it. Since the early
:: '60s he has proven to be a restless, wandering musical
:: spirit, and this collection is the proof in the pudding that
:: his enormous talent and vision have warranted ù and continue
:: to warrant ù his participation in multiple genres as a
:: multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and arranger who
:: has successfully blurred the lines between jazz, blues, R&B,
:: funk, soul, fusion, and rock. All of Auger's periods are
:: covered here, from his earliest days as a jazz pianist to the
:: Trinity to the Oblivion Express to being a sideman on his
:: children's recordings. Of the 28 tracks contained here, 13 of
:: them are previously unreleased. One of these, "Inside of
:: Him," is a new track from the Trinity years with Julie
:: Driscoll, featuring her elegant, deeply moving voice on top
:: of a standard jazz trio setting ù Auger's towering harmonics
:: on the acoustic piano would have been just as welcome in a
:: Billie Holiday set in the early '50s. The earlier work
:: includes the beautiful original "Blues Three Four" from 1961
:: and a killer version of Bobby Timmons' hard bop-blues classic
:: "Moanin'." The early jazz material showcases Auger as a
:: consummate soloist whose rapidly developing sense of harmony
:: and rhythmic inventions pointed the way for his R&B and
:: fusion excursions. Disc one is simply revelatory. It's
:: breadth and range are astonishing in that they document the
:: inner and hidden life of Auger as well as his hits from the
:: era.
::
:: The second disc here documents all the obvious choices, from
:: "Freedom Jazz Dance" to "Happiness Is Just Around the Corner"
:: to "Inner City Blues" to "Second Wind." But there are
:: surprises here as well, the most notable of which is the
:: alternate take of Wes Montgomery's "Bumpin' on Sunset," from
:: 1974. Auger's kids, as one would suspect, are not slouches
:: either. Auger Sr.'s playing on Karma Auger's acid jazz opus
:: "Slide" is dirty, greasy, and funky; it's an elastic groove
:: that doesn't quit. Likewise, daughter Ali, a jazz singer from
:: the old standards school (with all the immediacy and sass of
:: the young and hungry), performs with her father on the Frank
:: Loesser nugget "The Lady's in Love," and Auger's arrangement
:: and solo swing very hard against Ali's throaty contralto. The
:: sound here is awesome, even on the early material; it's
:: 24-bit remastered and quite warm. The package that comes in a
:: foldout digipack is loaded with photos, a biographical essay
:: by Tom Vickers, and a track-by-track analysis by Auger.
:: Vickers is very fine in his appreciation, though there is one
:: glaring error where he states that Julie Driscoll's career
:: never recovered after she left Auger following a management
:: fiasco with the notorious Giorgio Gomelsky. Ms. Driscoll is
:: now Julie Tippetts, a brilliant and visionary vocalist in the
:: vanguard jazz and free improvisational field. Vickers' remark
:: is simply an ignorant statement by a critic with a prejudice.
:: Auger Rhythms is being rolled out as the opening salvo in a
:: complete program of Auger reissues. Featuring a wealth of
:: material for the collector and a solid introduction for the
:: novice, this is the Auger document to have.
::
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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