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 in addition to Grammy honour winning vocalist from the band Living Colour. Raphael Cruz-Percussion (tracks 1-6). Percussionist extraordinaire, Grammy nominee, alumnus to stars similar medico John, McCoy Tyner, in addition to George Benson.
The Music: Bebop alongside Bump! Jazz standards redefined alongside modern funk, Latin, in addition to 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 inwards Green (Miles Davis).
The Project: Recorded "live inwards the studio" (mostly), June, 1994 at Loho Studios, NYC. Produced in addition to arranged past times Ivan Bodley. Recorded past times Victor in addition to Ed Luke. Mastered past times Tony Dawsey.
The Deal: In the Swing Era, jazz was to pop civilization what Sat Night Fever was to the 1970s. It was a wild trip the lite fantastic craze, outrageous fashion disceptation in addition to the pop music of the 1920s in addition to 30s. Neo-traditionalist automatons are right away regurgitating the rhetoric of fossils in addition to charlatans, claiming that the simply truthful jazz is that played to a swing shell alongside surely traditional instruments, denying most rhythmic innovations since well-nigh 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 in addition to harmonies navigated hither are largely postal service bebop, beyond the range of what Bird in addition to Dizzy were dealing alongside at the time. And the rhythms? Well, suffice to country this music is designed to vigorously induce whatsoever business office of your trunk that you lot aid 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 in addition to The Osmond Brothers to The Blue Note Club House Band, Harry Connick, Jr.
, in addition to The Shirelles. They know the score.
Reviews of Ivan Bodley in addition to 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 in addition to fun." -Nelson George, Playboy
Jazz Jackpot! Review: "Impassioned in addition to as intelligent, featuring Bodley's buzz-like bass work. Hats off to the Jazz/Funk Unit." -CMJ
"**** [four stars]. Jazz/Funk Unit tight in addition to swinging, delightfully different." -The Music Paper
"Ivan Bodley, producer, arranger, in addition to bassist!.
I'm happy to inform you lot 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 inwards acoustic, electric, fretted, fretless, four-string, five-string, eight-string, in addition to piccolo basses, Ivan is a creative in addition to versatile bassist, performer, producer, musical director, composer, arranger, vocalist, in addition to instructor. He has company professional person sense inwards various musical genres from hip-hop to bebop.
Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Ivan has resided in addition to worked in: New Orleans, Los Angeles, London, Boston, in addition to is right away based inwards New York City.
Ivan has performed inwards 23 countries to audiences of upwardly to 30,000 people. He has toured in addition to 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, in addition to Peter Wolf.
Ivan has a BA inwards 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 in addition to uses Warrior basses, Hartke amplification, Dean Markley strings, Digitech in addition to Line half dozen holler for processors exclusively. Ivan eats simply 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 inwards 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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