Thursday, January 04, 2007

Greg Alper

Greg Alper Band - Fat Doggie Adelphi AD-5009 (1978)

A happy & healthy 2007 to you all. Have been a little quiet on the posting front but am remedying that with this prize peice of groovy jazziness.

This is a quirky but strong album full of surprises. Heaven knows why it isn't more sought after considering the pedigree of the musicians and the quality of the tunes.

A very mixed bag this - a couple of opening dancefloor stompers give way to a handful of blisteringly tight & catchy jazz nuggets that you'll find yourself playing over & over again whilst uttering "why have I never heard of this LP?" It's this second half of the album that does it for me.

Along with Alper on saxes & flute, credits go to Rich Oppenheim (as) Ray Anderson (tb,vo) Al Clark (perc,vo) Richie Morales (ds) Ernie Provencher (b) Al Scott (b) Chuck Loeb (g) Steve Gutman (tp) Debbie & Olive Pointer, Jean Shaw (bg-vo).

1) Hole In Your Pocket
2) Fat Doggie
3) Give It Up
4) Huevos Nuevos
5) CantaƱa Baratta
6) Suite For Renee
7) Five Verses For
8) Don't Ever Let Me Catch You

6 comments:

Quimsy said...

Greg_Alper_Band_-_Fat_Doggie__1978_.zip

Anonymous said...

Can you write the exact link ?
Thanks in advance.

Quimsy said...

http://rapidshare.com/files/10154512/Greg_Alper_Band_-_Fat_Doggie__1978_.zip

Just noticed the incomplete link - My apologies for being a twit!

Vinyl Room said...

You know these tracks that play in the media player, are they all available anywhere?

These for instance

Dieter Reith - Dingeling-Dong
Martin Boettcher - Mickey's Guitar

Quimsy said...

Hi

The Dieter Reith track is taken from his "Rhyhtm in the Air" LP on Intercord

and

Martin Boettcher - Mickey's Guitar can be found on "Go Go With Uschi".

Winb said...

Quimsy amazing stuff and despite what I thought was a great knowledge of Jazz based music I only scratch the surface. It is thanks to the efforts of you that I have broadened my horizons. Keep it up.

Win