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Jasper van’t Hof with Bob Malik, John Lee, Alphonse Mouzon – However (1978/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 753 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS Classical
On “However”, Dutch jazz keyboardist Jasper van’t Hof has assembled a trio of American jazz fusion giants including Bob Malach on sax, John Lee on bass and Alphonse Mouzon on drums. The musicians deliver liquid synth lines, rolling rock rhythms and blistering solos on this fusion album that blends elements and influences of funk, blues and country with jazz.
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Alphonse Mouzon – Virtue (1977/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:08 minutes | 852 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Megadrummer and percussionist Alphonse Mouzon recorded Virtue, his lone date for Germany’s MPS, in 1976, and the label issued it in 1977. As far as fusion records go, these were not particularly good years, but Virtue is an example of the very best of what electric jazz had to offer at the time. Mouzon was half of a pair of drummers who defined the fusion era – the other was Billy Cobham…
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Alphonse Mouzon – The Man Incognito (1976/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:37 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul
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Drummer Alphonse Mouzon’s fourth solo album, The Man Incognito, was recorded in Los Angeles in late 1975 and released in 1976. Mouzon is surrounded on these nine original songs by a large and impressive group of musicians and backing vocalists including Tom Scott on saxophones, Lee Ritenour on guitar and keyboardists Dave Grusin, David Benoit and George Duke (billed here as Dawilli Gonga).
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Alphonse Mouzon – In Search of a Dream (1978/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:06 minutes | 773 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This is an obscure Alphonse Mouzon recording, which, along with Mind Transplant, accounts for Mouzon’s best work as a solo artist. The presence of former Weather Report band mate Miroslav Vituous provides for much of the session’s excitement (“The Light” being a standout). Fusion vets Philip Catherine, Stu Goldberg, and Joachim Kuhn also turn in fine performances, as does the relatively unknown Bob Malik. There is a great deal of integrity on this session, a quality that was often missing from Mouzon sessions both before and after this. Highly recommended.
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Albert Mangelsdorff, Alphonse Mouzon, Jaco Pastorius – Trilogue (Live) (1977/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:05 minutes | 731 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS
Legendary Weather Report electric bassist Jaco Pastorius and quintessential jazz-fusion drummer Alphonse Mouzon join Mangelsdorff at the 1976 Berlin Jazz Days for a combustion of creativity. Trilogue starts off solo with a multiphonic melody line and then opens up with free-wheeling give-and-take between the three. Zores Mores is straight ahead swing with Mangelsdorf’s masterful oblique phrasing and the pyrotechnical playing of Pastorious and Mouzon. There’s a bit of Spain and Flamenco in Foreign Fun with Mouzon laying down a complex carpet of sound and Pastorious setting up drone-like riffs. Accidental Meeting doesn’t seem to be so accidental after all. Albert writes three musical phrases, each composed in a different city, and then three separate musical beings converge as if predestined. Ant Steps On An Elephant’s Toe has a mix of the quick and the ponderous as Albert prances, plunger mute in hand, to a funky fusion rhythm. Multiphonics galore.
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