When asked almost the band's name, Brunel said:
“ ...Center Tone Records wanted me to tape an album amongst Dennis Chambers together with Tony MacAlpine. [I idea I’d practice an acronym of our lastly names] Chambers, Alpine, together with Brunel. I didn’t know that MacAlpine was an ‘M’ together with non split upward from the ‘A.’ But nosotros idea it was a skillful agency to bear the music... CAB, thence nosotros left it similar that. ”
— Bunny Brunel
CAB 4 is the 3rd studio album past times the instrumental rock/jazz fusion band CAB, released on September 23, 2003 through Favored Nations.
"If you lot similar quondam schoolhouse rock/jazz fusion, this album is for you.Dennis Chambers is i of the world's best drummers (Funkadelic; John McClaughlin; Santana); he has played amongst all the best together with is a phenominal player. Bunny Brunel played amongst Chick Corea together with if you lot similar killer, fast, funky bass playing, he is your man.Tony Mac is novel to me together with he writes swell tunes together with plays exciting guitar together with keyboards. Throw inward Ms Patrice Rushen on pianoforte on a few tracks together with you lot get got a heady musical stew.Well recorded, peachy playing, or thence long jams-a fusion lovers delight. Their previous 2 albums are every bit first-class ( at that spot is no CAB 3-some form of within joke). Happy listening."
"I lately saw Cab play at the Baked Potato inward Los Angeles together with they were amazing. They played tunes from all the Cab records, together with all I get got to tell is that I bought Cab three from Bunny Brunel, its a live double CD of them playing at the Baked Potato. I forgot who the telephone commutation board purpose musician was for the CD only the drummer was Virgil Donati, who is an amazing player."
For CAB consists of guitar monster Tony MacAlpine, bass magician together with Return To Forever alumnus Bunny Brunel, elegant together with ingenious keyboard innovator Patrice Rushen, together with the force-of-nature, unstoppable musical rhythm dynamo Dennis Chambers on drums -- each a giant on his or her ain terms. Together, they are dissimilar anything heard since the glory days of jazz-rock fusion. As Steve Vai said it "This is the best fusion album since Return To Forever."
Though private together with invitee projects clogged their calendars, the foursome decided inward 2003 to challenge themselves again. Once to a greater extent than they opened the door, this fourth dimension to Rushen, whose advanced harmonies added nonetheless or thence other dimension. Inspired forthwith past times their intensifying musical communion, they took the fusion pledge -- defy convention, overstep away on standards high, together with get got every gamble you lot tin -- together with plunged into CAB 4.
Their method was, of course, anything only predictable: Having already established themselves as a versatile live combination inward the studio together with inward gigs, CAB tried something different on 4. This time, each rails began amongst the writer, either MacAlpine or Brunel, creating a present of the tune. This was together with then passed along to Auger together with Rushen, who added their parts. Later they all went into the studio amongst Chambers to consummate the project. Dennis unleashed rhythms that uncannily supported, interacted with, bounced through, together with otherwise led to a concluding version as live as whatever concert performance.
Track listing:
1. "Hold On" Bunny Brunel 4:35
2. "One for the Road" Tony MacAlpine 7:01
3. "Shizuka" MacAlpine 5:24
4. "Tony Mac" Brunel 8:33
5. "Raymond" Brunel 6:31
6. "BB's Rhumba" Brunel 4:53
7. "Bass Ackward" Brunel 4:51
8. "Cloud 10" MacAlpine 6:17
9. "Alphonse" Brunel 6:25
10. "Jam & Toast" Brunel 6:09
11. "Dede" Brunel 6:13
Total length: 66:52
Personnel:
Tony MacAlpine – guitar, keyboard, production
Patrice Rushen – clavinet, Rhodes piano, piano
Brian Auger – keyboard, Hammond organ
Bunny Brunel – keyboard, percussion programming, bass, engineering, mixing, production
Dennis Chambers – drums
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