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Saturday, March 19, 2005

Paul Brody - Turning Turtle

Paul Brody Octet - Caravan
Paul Brody Octet - Lament
From Turtle Paradise: 99 Records 2133 [Buy Here - if you can]

Jazz-fusion gypsy music from Berlin with a pants-wettingly great horn section who sound like they're having the best party of their life? Try these couple of choice tracks from trumpeter Paul Brody's 1995 album Turtle Paradise.


Caravan is just a complete gas, and the Lament is quite possibly the most perfectly mis-named composition I know! I've already posted about Paul Brody so if you want some more info on him, look here. And good luck trying to find this CD for sale anywhere :-)

Worth a visit: Baby Snakes, an mp3 blog masquerading as a bulletin board, with a nice Frank Zappa 101 lecture - informative both for committed Mammy Nuns and still-clueless Gregory Peccaries.

posted by etnobofin @ 18:12  

3 Comments:

  • At 2:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Great selections you posted. Who are the other players on those tunes. Very cool stuff. I like it alot.

     

  • At 4:18 PM, Blogger etnobofin said…

    Glad you liked the tunes! The players all seem to be German, apart from Paul Brody (American based in Berlin).

    Felix Wahnschaffe - Alto sax
    Michael Holder - Tenor sax
    Jorg Miegel - Baritone, soprano sax
    Uwe Langer - trombone
    Thomas T. Hopf - guitar
    Carsten Schmelzer - Bass

    I'm pretty sure the drummer is Bob Moses: the drummer isn't actually credited (possibly due to contractual issues?) but Bob Moses supplies a poem for the liner notes.

     

  • At 4:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Intresting. Thanx man! Keep it up ;)

     

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