The Cats: Ivan Bodley-Electric & Acoustic Bass, Julian Coryell-guitar, Adrian Harpham-drums, Deji Coker, Jr.
-Alto Saxophone, Peter Adams-Keyboards.
The Guests: Corey Glover-vocals (on "Nature Boy"). Platinum too Grammy accolade winning vocaliser from the band Living Colour. Raphael Cruz-Percussion (tracks 1-6). Percussionist extraordinaire, Grammy nominee, alumnus to stars similar physician John, McCoy Tyner, too George Benson.
The Music: Bebop alongside Bump! Jazz standards redefined alongside modern funk, Latin, too swing beats: Nefertiti (by Wayne Shorter), Nardis (Miles Davis), Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez), Fee Fi Fo Fum (Wayne Shorter), Stella past times Starlight (Victor Young), Anthropology (Charlie Parker, Walter Bishop, Jr.
, Dizzy Gillespie), Just Blues (Kenwood Denard), Blue inward Green (Miles Davis).
The Project: Recorded "live inward the studio" (mostly), June, 1994 at Loho Studios, NYC. Produced too arranged past times Ivan Bodley. Recorded past times Victor too Ed Luke. Mastered past times Tony Dawsey.
The Deal: In the Swing Era, jazz was to pop civilization what Sabbatum Night Fever was to the 1970s. It was a wild trip the lite fantastic craze, outrageous fashion disceptation too the pop music of the 1920s too 30s. Neo-traditionalist automatons are immediately regurgitating the rhetoric of fossils too charlatans, claiming that the merely truthful jazz is that played to a swing beat out alongside certainly traditional instruments, denying most rhythmic innovations since most the piece of cake 1950s. It's fourth dimension nosotros all got on alongside our lives! And who said serious music can't endure fun?
The Jazz/Funk Unit are educated musicians, disproportionately talented, who play similar all hell. The melodies too harmonies navigated hither are largely post service bebop, beyond the orbit of what Bird too Dizzy were dealing alongside at the time. And the rhythms? Well, suffice to tell this music is designed to vigorously receive whatsoever part of your torso that y'all attention to moving ridge at it.
These cats are the novel breed, the immature lions, Berklee College of Music graduates alongside a plethora of professional person credits ranging from Larry Coryell too The Osmond Brothers to The Blue Note Club House Band, Harry Connick, Jr.
, too The Shirelles. They know the score.
Reviews of Ivan Bodley too Jazz/Funk Unit:
With Jazz/Funk Unit: "Bassist/bandleader Ivan Bodley lives upwardly to the description of his sound: bebop alongside bump. He gives backbeat to modern standards." -Billboard
"Bassist/producer Ivan Bodley gets to brand syncopated groove music out of jazz standards. It's feisty too fun." -Nelson George, Playboy
Jazz Jackpot! Review: "Impassioned too as intelligent, featuring Bodley's buzz-like bass work. Hats off to the Jazz/Funk Unit." -CMJ
"**** [four stars]. Jazz/Funk Unit tight too swinging, delightfully different." -The Music Paper
"Ivan Bodley, producer, arranger, too bassist!.
I'm happy to inform y'all the tape is at to the lowest degree twice as interesting as the accompanying story." -Jazziz
Ivan Bodley Biography
Bassist Ivan Bodley is a Magna Cum Laude Berklee College of Music graduate alongside various music manufacture experience. Specializing inward acoustic, electric, fretted, fretless, four-string, five-string, eight-string, too piccolo basses, Ivan is a creative too versatile bassist, performer, producer, musical director, composer, arranger, vocalist, too instructor. He has enterprise professional person sense inward various musical genres from hip-hop to bebop.
Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Ivan has resided too worked in: New Orleans, Los Angeles, London, Boston, too is immediately based inward New York City.
Ivan has performed inward 23 countries to audiences of upwardly to 30,000 people. He has toured too recorded alongside various artists such as (alphabetically): Solomon Burke, The Chiffons, The Coasters, The Crystals, Spencer Davis, Bo Diddley, The Drifters, Gloria Gaynor, Ben E. King, The Marvelettes, Sam Moore (Sam & Dave), The Platters, Buster Poindexter, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Santana, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, Percy Sledge, Rufus & Carla Thomas, The Tokens, The Uptown Horns, too Peter Wolf.
Ivan has a BA inward Psychology from Tulane University, where he was Musical Director of college radio station WTUL, New Orleans. He was likewise a publicist alongside Epic Records/Sony Music.
Ivan endorses too uses Warrior basses, Hartke amplification, Dean Markley strings, Digitech too Line half dozen dot processors exclusively. Ivan eats merely Little Debbie snack cakes.
Track listing:
1 Nefertiti
2 Nardis
3 Nature Boy
4 Stella past times Starlight
5 Fee Fi Fo Fum
6 Anthropology
7 Just Blues
8 Blue inward Green
Personnel:
Julian Coryell - Guitar
Deji Coker - Sax (Alto)
Adrian Harpham - Drums
Ivan Bodley - Arranger, Bass (Electric), Bass (Acoustic), Producer
Peter Adams - Keyboards
Raphael Cruz - Percussion
Corey Glover - Vocals
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