Brian Culbertson - Bringing Back The Funk
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Track List: Bringing Back The Funk
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- Funkin' Like My Father
- Always Remember
- Hollywood Swinging
- The House Of Music
- You Got To Funkifize
- The Groove
- The World Keeps Going Around
- Excuse Me...What's Your Name?
- Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
- Let's Stay In Tonight
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Album Details: Bringing Back The Funk
- Release Date:
- 04/29/2008
- Label:
- Grp Records
- UPC:
- 602517643437
Pro Reviews: Bringing Back The Funk
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews In the 14 years since the Illinoisborn and bred composer, producer, and keyboard whiz released his debut Long Night Out at the age of 21, he's evolved from a shy kid writing cheerful pop songs in a bedroom studio to one of contemporary jazz's most electrifying Alist performers. His fan base is large enough that he would have made a killing even had chosen to simply follow the easy grooving candlelit approach of his last nonholiday CD It's on Tonight with something similarly lowkey and seductive. Fortunately for everyone who had been complaining that smooth jazz artists had been getting way too predictable in the latter 2000s, he had the pull and the wherewithal to make his dreams come true and seriously bring back the groove with just about every heavy hitting funkateer from the '70s. The cover shot of "little Culby" sitting and listening on headphones says it all he was a tyke when his guest list was defining all that was cool and happening. The luminaries included onetime James Brown bassist Bootsy Collins and Phelps "Catfish" Collins plus members of the Rubber Band and the Horny Horns (all out of PFunk); Larry Graham (the slap bass great of Sly the Family Stone and his own Graham Central Station no laidback "One in a Million You" happening here); Larry Dunn and Sheldon Reynolds (Earth, Wind Fire); Greg Adams (Tower of Power), Tony Maiden and Bobby Watson (Rufus), Michael Bland, Cora Dunham, and Rhonda Smith (from Prince's bands), solo stars Ray Parker, Jr., David T. Walker, Ronnie Laws, Gerald Albright, Tom Scott, Paul Jackson, Jr., Perri, etc. Modern neosoul was well represented as well, with Ledisi swaying dreamily through horn accents and multiple keyboard flavors on Bill Withers' lightly obscure gem "The World Keeps Going Around" and Musiq (Soulchild) slammin' it with urban sax god Gerald Albright, a sea of crunching horns and Culbertson's bright chordings on "Hollywood Swinging." Culbertson's choice of covers, which includes Candy Dulfer and Prince vocalist Chance Howard's urgent command from TOP that "You Got to Funkifize" (featuring Adams on trumpet), is inspired, but he also cowrote a batch of gems that stand proudly alongside the classics. Reynolds and Collins are among the cowriters of the bright, brass splashed "Funkin' Like My Father" that comes across like an invitation to the party with a series of vocalists connecting past to present. The EWFinspired CulbertsonReynolds cowrite "Always Remember" shows that no matter how crazy he gets with the production, Culby is still a joyfully melodic jazz keyboardist at heart. Other original highlights include the simmering gospelblues number "The House of Music" (Graham and Laws are the billed stars, but Ricky Peterson's Hammond B3 carries the soul), and the buoyant piano and horn section dance dubbed "The Groove" Parker (who cut his teeth on RB sessions a decade before "Ghostbusters") chimes in on the percussive, twominute interlude throw down "Excuse Me...What's Your Name?" which features Culby on the 'bone, trumpet and MiniMoog. An even more powerful party all night affair than Dulfer's magnificent Candy Store was the previous year, Bringing Back the Funk is Culbertson's masterwork that took contemporary urban jazz to a whole new level in 2008. - Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide |
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Even though Brian Culbertson might be categorized as lite jazz, his music has just enough "oomph" to keep you interested. The talented young composer/arranger/keyboardist/trombonist's music has maturity that is, at times, beyond his years, and Culber...Full Brian Culbertson Biography
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