The Wooden Glass Recorded Live Featuring Billy Wooten PLP-6829 Japan 2004
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This is the 2004 reissue of Billy Wooten's classic album, THE WOODEN GLASS RECORDED LIVE. A true masterpiece! The Wooden Glass Recorded Live featuring Billy Wooten 2019/08/20 00:00wooden glass The Wooden Glass Recorded Live featuring Billy Wooten Interim '72
New York-born vibraphonist Billy Wooten moved to Indianapolis in the '70s, joining Grant Green's band in the early '70s. He soon left Green's band and formed his own band, Udon Grass, with a drummer and organist who had been his colleagues at that time, and a new guitarist. And this album is a live performance of Udun Grass at the Indianapolis club, 19th Hall.
The night the funk gods descended," was the copy of this album when it was first reissued by P Vine, and the band's performance was so divine that this phrase is not an exaggeration. The band's united, intense, and aggressive performance is full of energy. Among the many jazz funk live recordings, I think this is one of the best. It could be placed in the same league as Jimmy Smith's "Root Down" or Jimmy McGriff & Groove Holmes' "Giants Of The Organ In Concert," for example.
Smilin'", also released on Eastbound in 1972 under the name Nineteenth Hall, is also a work of Udun Glass, but Cornell Dupree and Gordon Edwards also participated in the recording, and for this reason, the name "Smilin'" was not used on this album. It is possible that they did not use the name "Udun Grass" for this reason.
The show opened with "Monkey Hips And Rice," a fast and furious jazz-funk tune. The original song was included in "Smilin'", which is also good, but this live version is still the best. The drums pound a furious funk beat, and Upten's vibraphone thrills the audience as the organ and guitar groove like a fire. The cover of "We've Only Just Begun" is a mellow number with a glossy wet vibraphone spilling out, but the drum beat and groovy organ are powerfully funked up. Joy Ride" is a fun jazz-funk song with a joyful vibe, and the band's groovy performance is as "joy ride" and groovy as it gets.
In The Rain," a cover of the Dramatics' classic "In The Rain," may be the most popular song on the album, is a mellow jazz funk gem with vibraphone drops dripping down like the sound of rain. The drums on this song are also very good. The funk drums also play well on the cover of Aretha Franklin's "Day Dreaming," and the vibraphone also plays crisply. It is also fun to compare this version with Roy Ayers' version, which expands the mellowness of the original song even further. The last song, "Love Is Here," a cover of the Shoeplims' "Love Is Here," is a jazz-funk version of the pop-tinged Motown sound.
The CD reissued in 2009 under the title "The Complete Edition" includes the original six songs and three additional songs that were performed live on stage on the same night as the original six songs, which were discovered and released in 2007 on the previously unreleased "Lost Tapes" CD. Al Green's hit "Let's Stay Together" is groovier than the original, with an increased tempo. The remaining two songs, "Betcha By Golly, Wow" and "You Are Everything," are both hits for the Stylistics, with beautifully sung vibraphone and the band's performance still creating a funk groove.
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