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Track Listing
1. Blast!
2. Funk Joint
3. Free - (featuring Corinne Bailey Rae)
4. Higher Ground
5. Milky Way - (featuring Keb' Mo')
6. Pluck (Interlude)
7. Lost Without U - (featuring Taraji P. Henson)
8. 'Cause I Want You - (featuring Shihan The Poet)
9. Ooh - (featuring Lalah Hathaway)
10. When I Fall in Love
11. Strum
12. Jean Pierre
13. What Is Hip?
14. Lost Without U (Spoken Word)
Album Notes
Recording information: Hannibal Studio, Santa Monica, CA; Gwizmon Studios, New York, NY; Fantasy Studios, Berklee, CA; Hiatus Studio; Westlake Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA.
Marcus Miller has a resume most people in the music world would envy. Miller is a bassist who's also a producer, arranger, composer (including movie soundtracks), and multi-instrumentalist who has appeared on over 200 albums. His first for Concord, MARCUS, is a savory stew of jazz, funk, pop, and R&B. There are lean, stirring versions of classics by Stevie Wonder ("Higher Ground") and Tower of Power ("What Is Hip"), soothing vocals from Corrine Bailey Rae, and a tip of the hat to Miller's old boss Miles Davis ("Jean-Pierre"). Add the saxophones of David Sanborn and Tom Scott to the mix and one has a recipe for some nifty, debonair, groove-centric jazz.
Industry Reviews
[He] unleashes his inimitable chops on hard-hitting instrumentals like the Indian-flavored 'Blast'....He also turns in a moving rendition of the Broadway tune and oft-covered jazz standard 'When I Fall in Love'...
3 stars out of 5 -- Miller lets it rip with all manner of strip-slapping grooviness over robo-tough drum grooves.
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