When asked nearly the band's name, Brunel said:
“ ...Center Tone Records wanted me to tape an album alongside Dennis Chambers as well as Tony MacAlpine. [I idea I’d do 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 practiced agency to bear the music... CAB, as well as thence nosotros left it similar that. ”
— Bunny Brunel
Remember that onetime Star Trek episode where an alien race is able to movement roughly the Enterprise at an infinitely quicker measuring than Kirk as well as company? Listening to Cab, you lot powerfulness 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 1 of the most powerful as well as precise drummers inward contemporary music. French bassist Bunny Brunel is best known for his operate alongside Chick Corea as well as Herbie Hancock. The elevate Tony MacAlpine powerfulness live less familiar to jazz fans. H5N1 classically trained instrumentalist who kickoff 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 loose chock sum 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 do without some of MacAlpine’s synthesized keyboard solos, the tunes render an interesting framework for the players fiery improvisations.
Five tracks were penned yesteryear Brunel, 2 yesteryear Brunel inward partnership alongside Japanese guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, as well as 3 yesteryear MacAlpine. (Watanabe does non play on the album.) All 10 tracks are good, but 3 of Brunel’s compositions stand upwards out for me. "Night Splash" is complex, fast-moving slice alongside a Latin experience that includes brief solos yesteryear all 3 players, including an amazing machine-gun run yesteryear Chambers. "One for Stern" is a bluesy fusion seat out alongside Brunel on both fretless as well as piccolo basses as well as Brian Auger sitting inward on organ. "Bernard" is a stirring seat out co-written yesteryear Brunel as well as Watanabe that showcases Brunel on five-string piccolo synth bass.
Listening to Cab is a flake similar existence chased yesteryear bulls through the streets of Pamplona for 50-plus minutes. You powerfulness wishing for a deadening interlude only to choose grip of your breath, but you’ll experience exhilarated.
Guitarist/keyboardist Tony MacAlpine, known for chest-swelling rock-classical hybrids, has occasionally tinkered alongside jazz-rock elements on before releases. Here, he fully invests himself inward a fusion trio that includes bassist Bunny Brunel (who owns credits alongside Chick Corea as well as Herbie Hancock) as well as David Chambers (Parliament-Funkadelic). Along alongside existence the album's featured instrumentalist, Brunel wrote vii of the disc's 10 tracks, alongside MacAlpine penning the final three. The results are attractive, if non ever arresting. MacAlpine takes flying equally a soloist alone sporadically, most memorably when responding to his ain meaty stone chops inward 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 plough over themselves room to ready (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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