Mo' Roots [PA]

Performer: Maceo Parker
Artist: Kym Mazelle; Rodney Jones; Fred Wesley; Pee Wee Ellis; Larry Goldings; Bill Stewart; Jimmy Madison
Engineer: Peter Backerman; David Baker
Producer: Maceo Parker; Stephan Meyner
Distributor: Allegro Corporation (Dist

Notes: Personnel: Maceo Parker (alto saxophone, vocals); Kym Mazelle (vocals); Steve Williamson (alto saxophone); Pee Wee Ellis (tenor saxophone); Fred Wesley (trombone); Larry Goldings (Hammond B-3); Rodney Jones (guitar); Bill Stewart, Jimmy Madison (drums). Recorded at Sound On Sound Studios, New York, New York in March 1991. Personnel: Maceo Parker (vocals, alto saxophone, piano, organ); Kym Mazelle (vocals); Rodney Jones (guitar, guitars); Steve Williamson (alto saxophone); Pee Wee Ellis (tenor saxophone); Fred Wesley (trombone); Larry Goldings (Hammond b-3 organ, keyboards); Jimmy Madison, Bill Stewart (drums). The 2008 reissue of MO ROOTS does Maceo Parker fans a good turn by putting this 1991 instrumental groovefest back into circulation. Flanked by fellow JB alums Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis, Parker wails through 10 cuts of feel-good, jazz-inflected R&B and funk. Amid some fine band-penned originals, the set list includes lively covers of tunes by Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye, as well as funkified treatments of jazz compositions by Horace Silver and Lionel Hampton.

Down Beat (11/91) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...a perfectly cohesive essay on timeless black roots music...Parker's alto style is, as always, both tightly focused and freely roaming..."

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