Time: 39:48
Size: 91.1 MB
Styles: Blues-jazz guitar
Year: 1967/2004
Art: Front
[4:13] 1. Chicken Fat
[5:50] 2. Greasy Spoon
[6:32] 3. Home James
[2:29] 4. Slalom
[2:16] 5. Hobo Flats
[4:38] 6. Shanty
[4:59] 7. Sad But True
[4:22] 8. I'm Goin' To Jackson
[4:26] 9. Blues For Big Bob
Bass [Electric] – Ronald Brown; Drums – Paul Humphrey; Guitar – Arthur Wright, Herb Ellis, Mel Brown; Organ – Gerald Wiggins. Recorded in Hollywood, California on 31 May & 1 June, 1967.
Guitarist Mel Brown is hailed as "An Impulse! Discovery" on Chicken Fat, his debut for the label, and this album does feature a fantastic unique sound. Brown played in the bands of T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker, and has an aggressive (though not harsh) single-string picking style. For this date he is paired with either Herb Ellis or Arthur Wright on guitar, Gerald Wiggins on organ, and Brown's regular rhythm section of Paul Humphrey on drums and Ronald Brown on electric bass. There are a couple tracks that are played as pretty straight blues, but this is a hoppin' soul-jazz date. The tunes are bouncy and funky, and Brown's playing is a real treat. His bluesy, almost reckless soloing gives a vastly different flavor that the playing of guys like Grant Green or Melvin Sparks. Gerald Wiggins' organ playing is cool and swinging, and the electric bass of Ronald Brown makes this album about as funky as Impulse ever got. Both Herb Ellis and Arthur Wright get some solo space as well, with Ellis sounding quite interesting playing an unamplified 12-string on a couple cuts. Brown gets some nice tones as well, and on "Hobo Flats" plays "an electronic guitar with Wah-Wah distortion" (remember, this is 1967 jazz) "that gives a weird shimmering sound," according to the liner notes. Leave it to Impulse! to put a new spin on the guitar/organ sound. This is hot stuff. ~Sean Westergaard
Guitarist Mel Brown is hailed as "An Impulse! Discovery" on Chicken Fat, his debut for the label, and this album does feature a fantastic unique sound. Brown played in the bands of T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker, and has an aggressive (though not harsh) single-string picking style. For this date he is paired with either Herb Ellis or Arthur Wright on guitar, Gerald Wiggins on organ, and Brown's regular rhythm section of Paul Humphrey on drums and Ronald Brown on electric bass. There are a couple tracks that are played as pretty straight blues, but this is a hoppin' soul-jazz date. The tunes are bouncy and funky, and Brown's playing is a real treat. His bluesy, almost reckless soloing gives a vastly different flavor that the playing of guys like Grant Green or Melvin Sparks. Gerald Wiggins' organ playing is cool and swinging, and the electric bass of Ronald Brown makes this album about as funky as Impulse ever got. Both Herb Ellis and Arthur Wright get some solo space as well, with Ellis sounding quite interesting playing an unamplified 12-string on a couple cuts. Brown gets some nice tones as well, and on "Hobo Flats" plays "an electronic guitar with Wah-Wah distortion" (remember, this is 1967 jazz) "that gives a weird shimmering sound," according to the liner notes. Leave it to Impulse! to put a new spin on the guitar/organ sound. This is hot stuff. ~Sean Westergaard
Chicken Fat
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Artwork for Chicken Fat https://we.tl/VXvWg6HoS6
Thank you Albert for the artwork. And thanks of course to Mat Tiggas for the post which made me able to upgrade my previous copy.
Request for re-up please.
New links for this post can be found below. Different copy from the one originally posted.
Mel Brown - Chicken Fat (1967) [320]
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