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Buckshot Lefonque (CD)

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DISC 1 for Buckshot Lefonque (CD) Album By Buckshot LeFonque
1   Ladies And Gentlemen Presenting...  
2   Blackwidow Blues  
3   I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings  
4   Mona Lisas (And Mad Hatters)  
5   Wonders And Signs  
6   Ain't It Funny  
7   Some Cow Fonque (More Tea Vicar)  
8   Some Shit @ 78BPM (The Scratch Opera)  
9   Hotter Than Hot  
10   Breakfast @ Denny's  
11   Shoot The Piano Player  
12   No Pain No Gain  
13   Sorry Elton  
14   And We Out  
15   Breakfast @ Denny's (uptown version)  
 
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The Source (8/94, p.88) - "...Both Marsalis and Premier are masters of their craft...this record serves to enforce the natural relationship between these two renegade art forms..."
Musician (8/94, p.89) - "...What dooms most attempts at jazz/pop fusion is the insistence on being one or the other. But Buckshot LeFonque...manages to be both simultaneously..."

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Buckshot LeFonque includes: Maya Angelou, Betlemem Kiros, Tsige Metageshaic, Serlewowgel Solomon, Alexander Assefa, Uptown (vocals); Blackheart (vocals, programming); Branford Marsalis (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, programming); Roy Hargrove, Chuck Findley (trumpet); Delfeayo Marsalis (trombone, piano); Matt Finders (trombone); Kenny Kirkland (piano, keyboards); Kevin Eubanks (acoustic guitar, slide guitar); David Barry, Ray Fuller, Nils Lofgren, Albert Collins (guitars); Robert Hurst (acoustic bass, bass); Darryl Jones, Victor Wooten, Larry Kimpel (bass); Jeff "Tain" Watts, Rob Hunter, Chuck Morris (drums); Mino Cinelu, Vicki Randle (percussion); DJ Premier (scratches, programming).
Producers: DJ Premier, Branford Marsalis, Blackheart.
Recorded at Sony Music Studio and Signet Sound Studio, Los Angeles, Califorina; Ocean Way Recording, Inc., Hollywood, California; The
Process Recording Studios, Inc., Greensboro, North Carolina. Includes liner notes by Delfeayo Marsalis.
All songs written or co-written by Branford Marsalis except "Mona Lisas (And Mad Hatters)" (E. John/B.Taupin), "Some Shit At 78 BPM (The Scratch Opera)" (C. Martin) and "Hotter Than Hot" (K. Campbell/W. Henry/M. Witter/C. Martin).
For Branford Marsalis the challenge was not to bring jazz into hip hop--that's already been done. No, the challenge was to bring hip hop (among other forms) into jazz, to import the techniques, the poetry, the sounds and samples, and yet retain jazz's sense of swing; to create a music that did justice to both art forms, without patronizing either which, above all, emphasized the charm and grace of the songs.
Employing the same pseudonym that Cannonball Adderley had used some 30 years earlier, Buckshot LeFonque is Branford Marsalis' attempt to fuse jazz, hip hop and other popular forms into a coherent style. Perhaps fuse is the wrong word; maybe we should say re-fuse or reconnect; as in acknowledging the common roots all American music shares, going back many generations.
From the opening mood of "Buckshot Intro," with its smooth groove and funky turntable spinning, Marsalis' co-conspirator DJ Premier manages to ingratiate his programmed sources and samples smoothly into Branford's live aesthetic. On "Some Shit At 78 BPM" they bring samples of Ellington's "Anatomy Of A Murder" soundtrack to play inside a sardonic sound collage. The album's centerpiece, "Breakfast At Denny's" employs a similar approach over a riff with strong overtones of Dizzy Gillespie's "Salt Peanuts," as Branford's tenor leaps out of Earth's orbit.

Album Description

As a solo artist, Branford Marsalis has largely stuck to the standard quartet setting. However, 1994's BUCKSHOT LEFONQUE is a major departure from the saxophonist's usual milieu. Marsalis is best known for his roots-driven, post-bop albums. This release, however, is a funky record that employs beats and scratches (courtesy of DJ Premier), poetry (by the beloved Maya Angelou), pop vocals, and even rap.
BUCKSHOT LEFONQUE features smart music filled with wonderful textures, interesting compositional twists and turns, and unexpected moments of jazziness. For example, "Some Cow Fonque (More Tea Vicar?)" begins with a hard-swinging intro before it settles into a straight-ahead funk groove. One of the more traditional tracks, "The Blackwidow Blues" presents a hard-bop melody and sophisticated improvisations from stellar musicians, including Marsalis, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and pianist Kenny Kirkland. "Ain't It Funny" is the most straightforward pop song on the disc; sung beautifully by Tammy Townsend, this tune would fit perfectly on contemporary R&B radio stations.

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