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In the 1940s, a time-travel experiment allegedly occurred in a Philadelphia naval yard. In The Philadelphia Experiment a fantastic combo of Philly musicians--pianist/keyboardist Uri Caine, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Ahmir Thompson--takes its name from that fictional event and combines fusion, mainstream jazz and R&B styles from the 1970s to today. Accompanied by guitar legend Pat Martino and trumpeter John Swana, Thompson lays down some tricky jungle beats on the title track, while the threesome venture into the avant-garde on "(re)Moved" and into Latin on "IIe Ife". The group revives Sun Ra's
In the 1940s, a time-travel experiment allegedly occurred in a Philadelphia naval yard. In The Philadelphia Experiment a fantastic combo of Philly musicians--pianist/keyboardist Uri Caine, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Ahmir Thompson--takes its name from that fictional event and combines fusion, mainstream jazz and R&B styles from the 1970s to today. Accompanied by guitar legend Pat Martino and trumpeter John Swana, Thompson lays down some tricky jungle beats on the title track, while the threesome venture into the avant-garde on "(re)Moved" and into Latin on "IIe Ife". The group revives Sun Ra's "Call for All Demons" as a funky instrumental and brilliantly revisits Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man"; Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom" is redone as a classical style McBride/Caine duet. The late saxophonist Grover Washington Jr was Philly's patron jazz saint, as evidenced by Caine's reverent solo piano rendition of Washington's hit "Mr Magic" and McBride's funky, overdubbed one-man electric bass version of "Just the Two of Us". This threesome reminds us that the City of Brotherly Love still swings. --Eugene Holley Jr
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Manufacturer: Ropeadope
Release date: 1 April 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0014431600128 UPC: 014431600128
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