Get Organised
価格: ¥1,124
This is an album with a great pun and which is great fun. James Taylor--arguably Mr. Acid Jazz--has enjoyed a large cult following but never real commercial success. That is perhaps because he has, in the States at least, had to continually explain that he isn't the singer-songwriter of the same name or because, unlike the Brand New Heavies, he is less pop and more soul jazz. The musicians here include ex-Style Council drummer, Steve White and British tenor sax man, Steve Williamson. He does occasionally use a vocalist for tracks that often appear as a single (here it's Cleveland Watkiss on "It Doesn't Matter" and a wonderful group chant on the funky "Breakout"). Throughout the album his Hammond organ dominates with a brass section enthusiastically laying down the funk. Imagine, Lonnie Liston Smith mixing with Earth Wind and Fire and the Harry Palmer movies and you are near to the sound of Get Organized. --Phil Brett