Artist.......: VA
Album........: Snowboy Presents The Hi Hat
Label........: Freestyle
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: FSRCD009
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Aug-21-2006
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.freestylerecords.co.uk
track title time
01. Airto Moreira - Fica Mal Com Deus 04:38
02. Mccoy Turner Latin Big Band - Blue Bossa 06:51
03. Sirius B - Sirius 06:22
04. Bobby Sanabria & Ascension - Caribbean Fire 07:30
Dance
05. Jon Lucien - Sunny Day (Live) 05:34
06. Terell Stafford - If I Perish 06:24
07. New Cool Collective - Perry 05:50
08. World Saxaphone Quartet - Seven Steps To 06:14
Heaven
09. Cubana Bop - Ur Man In Havana 04:42
10. Peter King - Speed Trap 12:10
Runtime 66:15 min
Size 81,10 MB
Release Notes:
The home of jazz is obviously Southend-on-Sea, or
neighbouring Canvey Island, right? Well yes
actually, Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove's does have the
spirit of the Essex backwaters plotting his latest
intrepid adventures through the J-word. With an
unsurpassable back catalogue and scene knowledge, a
passport that has taken him everywhere and a
bottomless pit of experience truly making him jazz
aristocracy (without forgetting his funk, soul and
Latin dabbling), listing all of his accomplishments
would take some sort of super computer that hasn't
been invented yet. Let's just say the fires are
still burning hot enough for him to release another
necessary, pulse-racing jazz document from his
seminal club with its roots down by the seaside.
The Hi-Hat, now unsurprisingly housed at Camden's
Jazz CafΘ via The Blue Note, takes pride in
showcasing the fastest jazz in the world, and
selected dragsters rev up to test the speedometer.
The McCoy Tyner Latin Big Band's 'Blue Bossa' gets
flutes to make impossible noises and displays
guitar work so nimble it must've come from
six-fingered hands. While the tunes show a clean
pair of heels, by no means do they burn themselves
out. Bobby Sanabria & Ascension's 'Caribbean Fire
Dance? shows stamina in abundance, keeping on right
to the last just when you think it couldn't
possibly take one more breath. Showing similar
staying power, the World Saxophone Quarter leave
you gasping, displaying extra-large endurance
levels on 'Seven Steps to Heaven... Peter King's
aptly titled 'Speed Trap' tinkles the ivories until
every one of the 88 keys is doused in sweat while
the skins gets slapped senseless across 12 minutes
of up-down, loud-into-quiet-into-loud wheelies. Jon
Lucien adds vocal guidance without being caught up
in the tempos to easily direct 'Sunny Day' while
grasping a mean semi-baritone and some scat late
on.
A fast and furious collection of summer colours and
Latin lustre made to make you giddy; watch the
sparks fly