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Artist: Marcus Miller
Label: Sony Bmg Europe
Category: Music
List Price: $51.99
Buy New: $16.89
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 64022
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 3460503691025
ASIN: B000QXD3CS
Release Date: July 2, 2007
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| • | Blast | | • | Funk Joint | | • | Free - Marcus Miller, Williams, Deniece | | • | Strum | | • | Milky Way | | • | Pluck (Interlude) | | • | When I Fall in Love - Marcus Miller, Young, Victor | | • | Jean Pierre | | • | Higher Ground - Marcus Miller, Wonder, Stevie | | • | What Is Hip? - Marcus Miller, Castillo, Emilio |
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Album Details
2007 Release by the Critically Lauded Jazz Bassist who Has Played with Many of the Legendary Greats in his Storied Career Like Miles Davis and David Sanborn.
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for me, the best bass album January 3, 2008
I had the privilege of doing some engineering on this recording with Marcus and his crew. I've done a lot of bass albums in my career, this one is really the best. It is one I come back to again and again and I enjoy it even more with each hearing. It is really outstanding work.
The US version should be out soon and it is going to be worth the wait!
 BASSically Fantastic! November 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The multi-talented bassist, composer and producer Marcus Miller is back with another slammin' album. I mean it really doesn't get any funkier than this when it comes to playin' the bass. Marcus comes through like a bad "Plucker-Mother" on this project, which features orginal new material and covers of some old music favorites.
The album starts off with "Blast", a super-charged funk jam with lots of bass, backed by a blaring horn section which instantly makes you think of an HBCU marching band. Then the funk doesn't stop with "Funk Joint", featuring Patches Stewart playing a muted trumpet to jazz up the funk a little. On the next track, Marcus slows the pace down a little with "Free", a remake of the popular Denise Williams song from back in the day featuring Corinne Bailey Rae on vocals. Not a great remake as Corinne doesn't really add anything new or special to the song, she just sings it CBR style - not bad, and not great either, just plain.
Then we jump right back to the funk on "Strum" followed by "Milky Way" and "Pluck", which is a straight up jam session with more funky bass. The tempo slows down once again on "When I Fall In Love", a nice easy listening tune featuring Marcus on the bass clarinet (I love this instrument). Next comes "Jean Pierre", a cool Miles Davis composition with bass and harmonica trading lead solos. A very nice tune indeed.
The last tracks are two more remakes of classic music from the '70's - Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground", which is probably the best cover of this song that I've ever heard. Once again, Marcus really funks it up hard on this jam, and I'm sure that even Stevie would be envious. The album closes with "What Is Hip?", a cover of a tune made popular by the horn group "Tower Of Power", featuring the great David Sanborn on alto sax. What can I say? - just plain outstanding.
The only thing I don't really care for on this album is that it goes into over-kill with the harmonica solos on almost every song. I'm not too crazy about the harmonica on a funk-jazz album. Anyway, if you like funky bass, and if you're a die-hard Marcus Miller fan, you should definitely get this CD. You won't be disappointed.
Outstanding! August 8, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This as all of marcus's cd has a lot to offer. The first cut will appeal to all of the Super Funksters out there with a middle east twang. A hard hitter.The tittle track features Corine Bailey-Rae doing a cover from the 70's. All tracks show marcus's ability to produce hard pounding thumping music that pleases the soul. My favorite cut, besides the 1st. is a cover of "What is hip" which is an old tower of power tune. This has people talking all over the internet. It also features David Sanborn on sax which is a grand re-uniteing of friends and musicians from his past. I couldn't wait for the u.s. release so i ordered mine from overseas. I reccommend this to all millerheads and to those just getting into the marcus miller scene. Definatly worth the investment.
Best album July 23, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I think this is maybe his best album ever?
Track 1 and 9 is very funky and jazzy.
He must love to play this kind of music.
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