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Track Listing
1. Mystery Child
2. Sidewinder, The
3. Viva de Funk
4. While It's Good
5. Brother, Can You Spare Your Car?
6. Dirty Rice
7. Did You Feel That?
8. Last Buzz, The
9. Give It Here
10. Just Chillin'
| Details | | Producer: | Stewart Levine | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Joe Sample & The Soul Committee: Joe Sample (piano, keyboards); Joel Peskin (tenor saxophone); Oscar Brashear (trumpet); Michael Landau, Arthur Adams (guitar); Freddie Washington (bass); Steve Gadd (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion).
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles, California.
When fusion began to take off in the '70s, Joe Sample and company dropped the Jazz from their name and settled in L.A. as The Crusaders, going on to record several richly satisfying jazz-funk albums, before crossing over into pop on the strength of their hit single "Street Life."
DID YOU FEEL THAT? features one of his best bands (The Soul Committee) and some of his best writing since the Crusaders' SOUTHERN COMFORT. In Steve Gadd, Sample's teamed with a drummer who can swing as good as he funks, while trumpeter Oscar Brashear and tenor saxophonist Joel Peskin provide sharp, funky melodic contrasts and rhythmic accents.
A joyous cover of Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder" puts DID YOU FEEL THAT? squarely in the classic soul-jazz groove, when Joe Sample & The Jazz Crusaders, Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers attracted popular acclaim with their heady blend of hard bop, R&B, gospel and blues. Heavy groove tunes like "Mystery Child," "Viva De Funk" and "Brother, Can You Spare A Car?" feature Sample's dancing, gospel-inflected work on the Fender/Rhodes electric piano. "While It's Good" and "The Last Buzz" offer the suave Sample at his quiet storm best, but DID YOU FEEL THAT? is essentially a sly nod to the pianist's youth, and is best sampled on a summer's day at a family picnic with grits, ribs, chicken, greens and dirty rice--when wine, whiskey and the blues pour down like rain.
Industry Reviews
...delivers a great measure of soul--along with funk and other completely infectious Sample sounds that have a party atmosphere...
JazzTimes (12/01/1994)
3 Stars - Good - ...He gets back to his pre-funk roots, in the shape of a soul-jazz collection that's full of catchy compositions, nifty brass arrangements and plenty of tasty Sample solos...
Q (12/01/1994)
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