Hip to Bop

Hip to Bop

Hip to Bop

ASIN: B0002ZQG9W

Editorial Reviews
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In the early 20th century New Orleans jazz musicians traveled up the Mississippi River to Chicago. The talented 24-year-old Windy City trumpeter Maurice Brown has made the reverse migration to the Crescent City, where he's emerged as a phenom. His debut CD aurally illustrates his burgeoning, diamond-in-the-rough trumpet style, influenced by masters like Fats Navarro, and Wynton Marsalis, the man who discovered him. Backed by a quicksilver New Orleans combo featuring Los Hombres Calientes percussionist Bill Summers, Brown's material is modern, neo-classic, and surprisingly accessible. The melodically complex opener "Rapture," swings like Miles Davis's classic 1960s combos and "Mi Amor" is a mature ballad, while "It's a New Day" bops with funky backbeats that echo Donald Byrd's finest flights from the 1970s. Like Roy Hargrove and Russell Gunn before him, Maurice Brown keeps it real, and reels in new listeners with his tradition in transition approach. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Product Description
Hip to Bop is unusually sophisticated and timeless for a debut album. Trumpeter Maurice Brown's original pulse-quickening compositions will make die-hard jazz fans feel like they're listening to a long-lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet, while causing others to exclaim, "This is jazz?!" In the first track, "Rapture," the thumping heartbeat of the bass will envelop your ears, and then quietly explode into a melodic cacophony of horns, drums, and piano. But just as Maurice quickens your pulse, he'll then pepper your ear with a soulful groove in "It's a New Day," before letting you catch your breath with a caressing melody, "Mi Amor." It's at this point you realize this is no ordinary jazz trumpeter and this is certainly no ordinary contemporary jazz album. In "A Call for All Angels," "Anazao," "Conceptions," and "Look Ma No Hands," he illustrates his ability to create a comfort zone from the ballad to the virtuoso. In the album's liner notes, jazz great Ellis Marsalis proclaims, "Hip to Bop is an appropriate title for a cd that employs background riffs, wide intervals in the melody, a trumpet solo with a wah wah pedal all combined to connect the modern idiom to the BeBop tradition. He is paying homage to the past with elements of the present serving as the foundation for future concepts. Such is the tasteful compositional technique of Maurice Brown." Without a doubt, Hip to Bop belongs in the musical library of every music lover.

Hip to Bop

Hip to Bop,Maurice Brown,Brown Records,"His debut disc, Hip to Bop sublimely integrates the intricate improvisational burn of bebop with the pulsating rhythms of hip hop and R&B." -- John Murph, BETJazz.com,Bop,Jazz,Neo-Bop,Pop
Let's Be Frank: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • "love affair with the music of Frank Sinatra"
 Let's Be Frank: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007SMD
Release Date: 1998-06-30

Tracks:

  1. (Love Is) The Tender Trap - Ella Fitzgerald With Toots Camarata
  2. The Second Time Around - Mel Torme
  3. Strangers In The Night - Jack Jones
  4. Just One Of Those Things - Oscar Peterson
  5. My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker
  6. It Was A Very Good Year - Lou Rawls
  7. All The Way - Billie Holiday
  8. Softly As I Leave You - Matt Monro
  9. The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy Greco
  10. (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know - Carmen McRae
  11. Love And Marriage - The McGuire Sisters
  12. Young At Heart - Cleo Laine
  13. I Thought About You - Dinah Washington
  14. Let's Get Away From It All - Della Reese
  15. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning - Johnny Hartman
  16. My Way - Paul Anka

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars "love affair with the music of Frank Sinatra".......2000-04-29

The price of the CD is worth it's weight in gold to hear various artists perform Sinatra's material. None of the selections are meant to sound like Sinatra, but give thanks to an entertainer who was fortunate enough to sing and record with some of the best arrangers in the business. Frank brought to the surface many tunes that were good and he made them classics.

We have Ella Fitzgerald opening with "THE TENDER TRAP", never better - "THE SECOND TIME AROUND" has Mel Torme with his smooth "velvet fog" style - "STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT" gives Jack Jones something to sing about - "SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU" leaves Matt Monro singing this sentimental ballad - "IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING" was simply brighter with vocal by Johnny Hartman - composer Paul Anka has his way singing "MY WAY".

A pure delight from Hip-O Records is this compilation. This is a love affair in song with the best of the best, singing songs made popular by the "chairman of the board" - Sinatra!

Total Time: 49:16 on 16 Tracks/ Hip-O Records - HIPD 40112 (1998)
Hip to Bop
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Good jazz is still alive today!
  • You are gonna love this album!
  • TALENTED
  • Best jazz album of the year
  • Wynton, Nicholas, and Roy! ...Make Way for Maurice!
 Hip to Bop
Maurice Brown
Manufacturer: Brown Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0002ZQG9W
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

  1. Rapture
  2. It's a New Day
  3. Mi Amor
  4. Conceptions
  5. Anazao
  6. Hip to Bop
  7. Look Ma No Hands
  8. A Call For All Angels

Amazon.com

In the early 20th century New Orleans jazz musicians traveled up the Mississippi River to Chicago. The talented 24-year-old Windy City trumpeter Maurice Brown has made the reverse migration to the Crescent City, where he's emerged as a phenom. His debut CD aurally illustrates his burgeoning, diamond-in-the-rough trumpet style, influenced by masters like Fats Navarro, and Wynton Marsalis, the man who discovered him. Backed by a quicksilver New Orleans combo featuring Los Hombres Calientes percussionist Bill Summers, Brown's material is modern, neo-classic, and surprisingly accessible. The melodically complex opener "Rapture," swings like Miles Davis's classic 1960s combos and "Mi Amor" is a mature ballad, while "It's a New Day" bops with funky backbeats that echo Donald Byrd's finest flights from the 1970s. Like Roy Hargrove and Russell Gunn before him, Maurice Brown keeps it real, and reels in new listeners with his tradition in transition approach. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Album Description

Hip to Bop is unusually sophisticated and timeless for a debut album. Trumpeter Maurice Brown's original pulse-quickening compositions will make die-hard jazz fans feel like they're listening to a long-lost album by the Miles Davis Quintet, while causing others to exclaim, "This is jazz?!" In the first track, "Rapture," the thumping heartbeat of the bass will envelop your ears, and then quietly explode into a melodic cacophony of horns, drums, and piano. But just as Maurice quickens your pulse, he'll then pepper your ear with a soulful groove in "It's a New Day," before letting you catch your breath with a caressing melody, "Mi Amor." It's at this point you realize this is no ordinary jazz trumpeter and this is certainly no ordinary contemporary jazz album. In "A Call for All Angels," "Anazao," "Conceptions," and "Look Ma No Hands," he illustrates his ability to create a comfort zone from the ballad to the virtuoso. In the album's liner notes, jazz great Ellis Marsalis proclaims, "Hip to Bop is an appropriate title for a cd that employs background riffs, wide intervals in the melody, a trumpet solo with a wah wah pedal all combined to connect the modern idiom to the BeBop tradition. He is paying homage to the past with elements of the present serving as the foundation for future concepts. Such is the tasteful compositional technique of Maurice Brown." Without a doubt, Hip to Bop belongs in the musical library of every music lover.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good jazz is still alive today!.......2006-01-07

What a delight to discover a young jazz artist cranking out new music this good TODAY (not forty years ago)! Several of the tracks on this album are really top-notch. Most of them really showcase Brown's (& the band's) skill. I love the glory days of Miles Davis & John Coltrane, so I'm glad I heard about Brown from a jazz critic, who seems like the Real Deal.

One of the interesting (and, to me, surprising) things about this album is the diversity of styles represented. On the "technically brilliant but not as listener-friendly" side, you have "Rapture" and "Look Ma No Hands" that hearken back to the austere bop of decades past. And on the "it's like when a heavy metal band throws a boring ballad on their album" side, we have "Mi Amor" and "A Call For All Angels".

But I think all the tracks in the middle are golden. "Conceptions" & "Hip to Bop" fall on the bop side, and "It's a New Day" & "Anazao" are more radio-friendly (but still high quality). Personally, I'd like more of these that hit the sweet spot of quality & accessibility, but I'm not complaining.

All About Jazz criticized the eclectic nature of this album, saying Brown has not yet found his artistic voice. Perhaps (he is young), or perhaps he was showcasing his artistic range. OR perhaps he (or his record company) was fishing for a target audience and or trying to please them all. I'll let others decide! I'm too busy listening to the album.

5 out of 5 stars You are gonna love this album!.......2005-02-26

Maurice Brown is such a talent. He has such enthusiasm and expression. Whether he is playing his original compostions or something as beautiful as the standard "Misty"...you just want to listen. I look forward to more and more of this young great musician. Having seen him perform in person, I just feel he really know what music and working together with his fellow musicians is about. You can actually see him smile while he is performing. Buy it, you will love it!

5 out of 5 stars TALENTED.......2005-01-25

When I first heard Hip to Bop, I woke up the next morning humming track one- Rapture. It was fascinating to me that in just one day, I had managed to remember such an intricate piece. Maurice's music has a commonality that is undeniable. His songs give you a notion that you already know the tune, even though you know it is an original. This album sends Jazz to a new audience as well as the avid Jazz fans. The album has a more youthful feel that just moves, grooves, and soothes ya. Maurice Brown is truly talented, and the next major Jazz name that everyone will know.

5 out of 5 stars Best jazz album of the year.......2004-10-26

I really love hip to bop with its complex melodies and advanced rhythms, maurice brown is truly ahead of his time. There are deep roots of The Great Miles Davis and the complex soul of John Coltrane all mixed into one. If you are a listener of great jazz and even if you are not a listener of jazz I think this album will sure wet your whistle. This album should get some grammy nominations. So if you love great cats like this one, go out and buy his album it will be well worth the money and your music listening pleasure. Hip to Bop gets 50 stars from me. Waiting for the next album.

5 out of 5 stars Wynton, Nicholas, and Roy! ...Make Way for Maurice!.......2004-10-09

If you're a fan of Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Payton or Roy Hargrove, you'll dig Maurice Brown! This is the album you'll have in your cd player every day, all day long. It never gets old! From beginning to end, each song is original and different from the previous. Truly a masterpiece, especially for a debut album, I think Maurice Brown should win a grammy! I promise you won't be disappointed. If you are a music lover, this album's for you!...it's exceptionally well done, I definitely recommend it!
Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz, Vol. 3: Work to Do
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    		Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz, Vol. 3: Work to Do
    Various Artists
    Manufacturer: Umvd Import
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00000AV2U
    Release Date: 1997-05-12

    Tracks:

    1. Work to Do - The Isley Brothers
    2. Samba Do Suenho - Cal Tjader
    3. Overtime Man - Don Covay
    4. Outrageous - Johnny Pate
    5. Sayin' It and Doin' It Are Two Different Things - Bobby Byrd
    6. Fall Out - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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    10. Mathar - Dave Pike
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    17. Get Out of My Life Woman
    18. Zabuda - Junior Mance
    19. Our Lives Are Shaped by What We Love - Odyssey
    Life is for the Living
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • A quick favorite
    • Where has this artist been hiding?
    		 Life is for the Living

    Manufacturer: DWI
    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B00006JJL8
    Release Date: 2002-06-28

    Tracks:

    1. 091101
    2. Thankful 2b Alive
    3. Arise
    4. The 8th is of the Seven
    5. Mi Media Naranja
    6. Nihil Obstat
    7. Quick way home
    8. Outchazet
    9. 091101 (radio edit)

    Album Description

    Rick Richbourg's Jazz-Fusion, guitar oriented instrumentals that are an integration of post Be-Bop Jazz, Hip-Hop grooves and Alternative Rock elements featuring: Kickin-Guitar-Jamz, Graphic-Harmonic-Content and eXplicit-Melodic-Exposure. This simmering gumbo is served up as a tasty alternative to Alternative Rock!

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A quick favorite.......2002-10-05

    What's the best thing I can say about this music?Original and unique compositions.....yes. Very impressive guitar work....yes.Uplifting,...yes. But the best thing....is passion, YES....it's here and it will move you...the more I play it -the more I hear it. And, it get's 5 stars. I love this CD.

    4 out of 5 stars Where has this artist been hiding?.......2002-09-06

    This collection ranges from smooth jazz to a hard hitting beat with great lead guitar sounds. The tunes are catchy, well composed, and make you want to move a little, even if you are sitting down. Several tracks focus on today's current events as the artist attempts to awaken our senses and expose our feelings. I recommend this CD to a wide range of listeners because of the variety it offers.
    Scratch It!
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      		Scratch It!
      Bill McBirnie
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      ASIN: B00019PVCW
      Release Date: 2005-01-18

      Tracks:

      1. Crescent Wrench
      2. Find Your Place
      3. Scratch It!
      4. Canto de Escravo (Slaves Song)
      5. I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
      6. Free Diving [Version 1]
      7. Soul Survivor
      8. Canto de Escravo (Slaves Song)
      9. Scratch It! (Reprise)
      10. Missing You
      11. Honesty, Thrift & Industry
      12. Free-Diving [Version 2]
      13. Theme from Rocky & Bullwinkle
      Jackies Blues Bag: A Tribute to Jackie McLain
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • "soul, blues, jazz and the groove ~ The Essence All-Stars"
      		 Jackies Blues Bag: A Tribute to Jackie McLain
      Various Artists
      Manufacturer: Hip Bop Essence
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B000001BIE
      Release Date: 1997-03-18

      Tracks:

      1. Bluesnik
      2. Blue Fable
      3. Dr. Jackle
      4. Blues Inn
      5. Dr. Mac Jackie
      6. Midtown Blues
      7. A Ballad For Doll

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars "soul, blues, jazz and the groove ~ The Essence All-Stars".......2005-05-22

      There are few happier sounds in jazz than hearing a group of talented musicians get into a soulful groove...this is how a Tribute to Jackie McLean ~ "Jackie's Blues Bag:", came about in October 1996 recorded at Clinton Recording (Big House Studios "Blues Inn")...featuring The Essence All-Stars with Abraham Burton, Craig Handy, Donald Harrison, Vince Herring, Javon Jackson, LaMont Johnson, Joe Lovano. Branford Marsalis, Idris Muhammad, Justin Robinson and Rodney Whitaker...solid performance as you soak up the joyous blend of jazz, soul, blues and groove to the music that is impossible get out of your system - or forget!

      Opening track "BLUESNIK", gives you behind-the-scenes-insight to this great blues mixed with hints of jazz...completely spellbinding with everything on the table..."BLUE FABLE", "DR. JACKIE", "BLUES INN", DR. MAC JACKIE", "MIDTOWN BLUES" and "A BALLAD FOR DOLL", fits all grooves and as always jazz is beneficial to the environment, each tracks shines brighter than the other...playing from the heart - jazz artists with God-given-talent who just want to make people happy...and my friend this is the best medicine and just what DOCTOR JACKIE MAC ordered!

      Hats off to Silva Screen Records and Hip Bop Essence, Milan Simich (producer), Reynold da Silva and Yusuf Gandhi (executive producers), for this trip to groove down memory lane with America's original music JAZZ and BLUES...another great album featuring your favorite music JAZZ and The ESSENCE ALL-STARS!

      Total Time: 43:00 on 7 Tracks ~ Hip Bop Essence 8015 ~ (3/18/1997)
      Full Circle: From Be Bop to Hip-Hop
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        		Full Circle: From Be Bop to Hip-Hop
        Fred Wesley
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        ASIN: B000024ZMI
        Release Date: 2005-05-09

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        1. Rehab
        2. Chocolate Soop
        3. Funk School Hymn
        4. Funk School
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        6. Mo' Money
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        Hip to It
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          		Hip to It
          Danny D'Imperio
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          Supersonic Chronic
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            Enter My Mind
            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
            • We need more REAL music like this!
            • Misleading...
            • what IS this?!
            • Mr. Marlon
            • Sophisticated Soul
            		 Enter My Mind
            Marlon Saunders
            Manufacturer: Black Honey Records
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            Release Date: 2003-10-28

            Tracks:

            1. Enter My Mind
            2. You Move Me
            3. Keep Doin' What You Do
            4. For Love
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            10. Coolin'
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            14. The Beginning of Never

            Album Description

            Crooning over a back-in-the-day riff reminiscent of 70s soul, there's nothing "neo" about Marlon Saunders. Blending the intense devotion to groove that made 70s r&b so great with a modern edginess steeped in the powerful spoken word dazzle of hip hop, Saunders recreates a movement without sounding like a knock-off sampler. Which is exactly what he had in mind.

            "I want to combine the richness of the 70's - all of it, the music and psyche of black folks, the sense of beauty and awareness - and incorporate that into what I find unique and special about today's music," he says. And the emphasis, like his idols Marvin and Stevie and Rufus, will be songwriting. "In r&b music, we need to go back to the basic songwriting," says Saunders. "I was listening to a Roberta Flack/Donny Hathaway record the other day and I was amazed at the beauty of it. It's simple recording in terms of instrumentation, but those sturdy, beautiful songs transcend everything. You can do anything to that music - bop to it, make love to it, hang out with your friends to it, cook a good meal to it. I want my music to have the same effect. Or like the way Curtis Mayfield could marry the groove with the spiritual concept to the lyrics and still keep it ambiguous. I want my music to have that sense of discovery."

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars We need more REAL music like this!.......2005-01-08

            OK, so I bought this CD based on the reviews and all I can say is WHERE HAS MARLON BEEN ALL THIS TIME! This is a great CD folks! If you're into REAL soul music, look no further than "Enter My Mind". Marlon is a great singer/songwriter. Very much of the Curtis/Marvin vibe. The songs take me back to when I was growing up in the '70's, where music had much more substance than it does today. I'm VERY happy I bought this CD and you will too (especially if you love REAL SOUL MUSIC)!

            1 out of 5 stars Misleading..........2005-01-04

            I see I am not the only person here with the same problem. I have been to a couple online stores and heard praise of this guy but there were never any tracks to be sampled. So I actually came across the album in the store one day in the city and decided to give it a shot.....well......it was a FAR shot.

            Though I would hate to say to not believe what you read because I would simply love for you to believe me when I say...DON'T GET TOO EXCITED OVER THIS GUY.

            I see now-a-days no matter how bad the singer may be, if they bring something to the music scene that is reminiscent of the old days, people want to praise it because "it is different from all the contemporary stuff you hear today". BUT, just because he brings back the old style by NO MEANS makes this man any better.

            You can check out some samples on the official website marlonsaunders.com--which I should have done to start with. See for yourself. Save a few pennies.

            2 out of 5 stars what IS this?!.......2004-12-14

            I am an avid music lover who doesn't mind taking risks when it comes to purchasing music from an artist i've never heard of even if i haven't previewed the album. At the expense of good money, you win some, you lose some. After reading the positive reviews concerning this album i was pretty anxious to give it a listen. BIG MISTAKE. This album is complete garbage. The only reson i gave it 2 stars is because on a couple of the tracks i dug the lyrics. But, as a whole the album is crap. This brother has a lack of control over his voice, bad pitch, and attempts to impress with poorly executed and mostly failed vocal acrobatics. It pained me to force myself to listen to a complete track without skipping to the next song. Nothing about his style is catchy nor is it unique. Not to say that catchy is good (i prefer more unique artists) but this cat couldn't even pull off a catchy hook. In too many songs he *ATTEMPTED* a flavor similar to Maxwell and sounded so bad he actually hurt my feelings. People, there is a reason why the songs on this album cannot be previewed, for if they were you surely would not purchase this cd. So, as a forewarning to all lovers of genuinely good music...stay far far away from this album, for my copy rests in the trash at this very moment.

            4 out of 5 stars Mr. Marlon.......2004-06-17

            Marlon Saunders is one of my voice coaches. He rocks. This album is cool too.

            4 out of 5 stars Sophisticated Soul.......2004-06-01

            Saunders is best known as a founding member of the acid jazz combo Jazzhole. Though his songwriting is featured prominently in the group context, his vocals typically only adorn a few tracks. On this first solo album his singing is pushed to the fore to match his songwriting contributions. The result is surprisingly old-school, given that fellow Jazzhole founder Warren Rosenstein produced over half the album's tracks (Shawn V. Lucas filled the chair for the rest). The backings are sophisticated, but smooth and melow, without the aural explorations or jamming passages of Jazzhole. This keeps the focus on Saunders and his lyrics - right where it should be for a solo album. A fine record for playing with the lights low.
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            6. In Winds, In Light
            7. Incredible Jazz Guitar (20 Bit Remaster) [Original recording remastered] [Live]
            8. Irma La Douce: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD] [Soundtrack]
            9. Jade Visions
            10. Jazz On Broadway

            Jazz Music

            Jazz Music