When asked almost the band's name, Brunel said:
“ ...Center Tone Records wanted me to tape an album amongst Dennis Chambers as well as Tony MacAlpine. [I idea I’d create an acronym of our in conclusion names] Chambers, Alpine, as well as Brunel. I didn’t know that MacAlpine was an ‘M’ as well as non split from the ‘A.’ But nosotros idea it was a skillful agency to behave the music... CAB, then nosotros left it similar that. ”
— Bunny Brunel
Remember that former Star Trek episode where an alien race is able to motion to a greater extent than or less the Enterprise at an infinitely quicker measuring than Kirk as well as company? Listening to Cab, yous mightiness wonder whether Tony MacAlpine, Bunny Brunel as well as Dennis Chambers aren’t members of that same alien race. This trio spawns a turbo-charged blend of jazz as well as stone guaranteed to rattle windows as well as wake the sleeping.
Fusion fans know Dennis Chambers equally ane of the most powerful as well as precise drummers inwards contemporary music. French bassist Bunny Brunel is best known for his run amongst Chick Corea as well as Herbie Hancock. The mention Tony MacAlpine mightiness live less familiar to jazz fans. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 classically trained instrumentalist who start learned pianoforte as well as violin, MacAlpine has toiled for fifteen years equally a progressive metallic guitarist oftentimes compared to Yngwie Malmsteen. MacAlpine plays both guitar as well as keys on this album.
Cab is a high-octane fusion free chock amount of lightning-fast exchanges as well as unthinkable improvisations. Brunel as well as Chambers are dynamic together, as well as MacAlpine is a wildman guitarist. Though I could practise without some of MacAlpine’s synthesized keyboard solos, the tunes render an interesting framework for the players fiery improvisations.
Five tracks were penned past times Brunel, 2 past times Brunel inwards partnership amongst Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, as well as iii past times MacAlpine. (Watanabe does non play on the album.) All 10 tracks are good, but iii of Brunel’s compositions stand upwards out for me. "Night Splash" is complex, fast-moving slice amongst a Latin experience that includes brief solos past times all iii players, including an amazing machine-gun run past times Chambers. "One for Stern" is a bluesy fusion expose amongst Brunel on both fretless as well as piccolo basses as well as Brian Auger sitting inwards on organ. "Bernard" is a stirring expose co-written past times Brunel as well as Watanabe that showcases Brunel on five-string piccolo synth bass.
Listening to Cab is a combat similar beingness chased past times bulls through the streets of Pamplona for 50-plus minutes. You mightiness want for a tedious interlude simply to grab your breath, but you’ll experience exhilarated.
Guitarist/keyboardist Tony MacAlpine, known for chest-swelling rock-classical hybrids, has occasionally tinkered amongst jazz-rock elements on before releases. Here, he fully invests himself inwards a fusion trio that includes bassist Bunny Brunel (who owns credits amongst Chick Corea as well as Herbie Hancock) as well as David Chambers (Parliament-Funkadelic). Along amongst beingness the album's featured instrumentalist, Brunel wrote vii of the disc's 10 tracks, amongst MacAlpine penning the final three. The results are attractive, if non ever arresting. MacAlpine takes flying equally a soloist solely sporadically, most memorably when responding to his ain meaty stone chops inwards the championship rail as well as during an elaborate run on the in conclusion selection, "Bernard." MacAlpine's output on keyboards surfaces almost equally oftentimes equally his riffing, lending a Return to Forever vibe to a packet that shines to a greater extent than brightly when MacAlpine as well as Brunel laissez passer on themselves room to prepare (as on the Satriani-like "Boogie Me") rather than simmer.
Track listing:
1. "Night Splash" Bunny Brunel 5:20
2. "CAB" Brunel 7:16
3. "So There Is Love" Tony MacAlpine 3:41
4. "Just Perfect" Brunel 5:05
5. "One for Stern" Brunel 6:59
6. "The Watcher" MacAlpine 3:47
7. "Atamanashi" Brunel, Kazumi Watanabe 5:23
8. "Boogie Me" Brunel 4:39
9. "Elastic Man" MacAlpine 5:15
10. "Bernard" Brunel 4:37
Total length: 52:02
Personnel:
Tony MacAlpine – guitar, keyboard
Bunny Brunel – keyboard, bass, engineering, mixing, production
Dennis Chambers – drums
Brian Auger – organ
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