Back Together Again

Back Together Again

ASIN: B0000667PN

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Product Description
The jazz-fusion album Back Together Again by Larry Coryell & Alphonse Mouzon has been one of our most requested items. It also features guitarist Philip Catherine. Originally issued in 1977 on Atlantic Records, it is making its worldwide CD debut! A fusion classic! Wounded Bird Records. 2002.

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Back Together Again - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

As great as you remember!

good fusion let down by poor mastering

A classic

Back Together Again
Larry Coryell , and Alphonse Mouzon
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Album Description

The jazz-fusion album Back Together Again by Larry Coryell & Alphonse Mouzon has been one of our most requested items. It also features guitarist Philip Catherine. Originally issued in 1977 on Atlantic Records, it is making its worldwide CD debut! A fusion classic! Wounded Bird Records. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Back Together Again - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.......2006-10-13

I'm so happy that this album is finally available on CD. I don't think the sound quality is such that it should keep anyone from buying this CD which I recommend to all. Check out LC on Young Django with Stephane Grappelli, Phillip Catherine and NHOP or LC on Count's Jam Band Reunion or LC on Spaces with John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Miroslav Vitous and Billie Cobham. You know how you sing a song to yourself, well I'd do that all the time to the title track and now I've got the CD to accompany my bad singing. Get this CD, you'll be happy you did!

As great as you remember!.......2004-06-26

Truly an incendiary slice of mid 70's fusion, Mouzon and Coryell both at the very top of their game. These sessions were rounded out by Phil Catherine on 2nd guitar and John Lee on bass, both fusion players of the first order. Couple of simple vocals near the end of this disc but this album is all about the PLAYING ! Another reviewer had noted his dislike of the mastering and though I grant that it is probably not state of the art, it sounds pretty good to these ears. No need to be put off. I'm still listening to the software more than the hardware. Get this while it's in print!

good fusion let down by poor mastering.......2003-05-27

The is a good effort by larry Coryell but the sound quality on this disc is horrendous! The label, "Wounded Bird" seems to make a habit of this. This CD sounds like it was mastered from the vinyl masters..just like the original cd pressings back in the mid eighties sounded, weak, no separation, no highs, and low volume! This is extrememly frustrating. If you are going to do it...do it right! With the incredible technology today it is a shame that these titles being out out by wounded Bird sound so bad. If you like your fusion with good sound beware...If you are an audiophile...run home to your mommas! If you just want to hear it, and don't have the ability to master it from a vinyl record your self...buy it.

A classic.......2002-06-22

Well, it's midnight and I'm cruising around seeing if old classics have come out on cd. And I as a joke I type in "Coryell and Mouzon," and here we are. I didn't think anything would show up; I thought it was too obscure. I'll get to the point. This is absolutely one of the greatest jazz rock albums of all time. Except, I am a rock fan, not a jazz fan. So, this is a rock jazz album (ok, cd). It is entirely instrumental, but there is some brief singing on a song or two. This thing rocks hard, and I'm not kidding. The guitar playing is stellar, and I mean stellar. The bonus is you don't just get one great guitar player in Larry, you also get Philip Catherine - they are a great guitar duo. It is not pure "hard rock" but is as close to that as rock jazz can get. This really is not for pure jazz fans, it rocks too hard for you (I don't mean to be condescending). Of course, the drumming is fantastic, that is the Mouzon part of the title. And, I don't want to leave the bass player out, he does a great job; it's just that he has so much to compete with! If you like 70's hard rock with a jazz influence, and as a song I suggest Sister Andrea from Mahavishnu Live - this is that type of album. It is the best example I have ever heard of instrumental rock jazz. It is an absolute classic of that genre. Ok, I'm sorry, I said "genre," that's such a cliche word. But I'm not kidding, if you like rock with a jazz kick that makes it unclassifyable, this is it. I simply cannot say enough good things about this CD. And if I haven't convinced you yet, they also at times throw some great funk into the mix! BUY IT.

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A Waste of Two Gifted Players
Worth waiting for.
Stripped down

Back Together Again
Fred Anderson , and Hamid Drake
Manufacturer: Thrill Jockey
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

Leap Forward
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Album Description

Living legend Fred Anderson has been releasing records for more than 50 years and has recorded with some of jazz's biggest names. Hamid Drake is considered by many to be the greatest drummer in improvised jazz today, and has collaborated with such notables as Ken Vandermark, Don Cherry, and Pharoh Sanders, among others. "Back Together Again" is a stunning display of these two jazz masters at work. The bonus CD-Rom also contains a documentary of the record as it was being made, with footage of the two performing together in the studio and talking about their creative processes.

Customer Reviews:

A Waste of Two Gifted Players.......2005-12-06

What a frustrating album. A great tenor sax player and one of the most exciting drummers/percussionists around join up for a duo session. I was expecting sparks to fly, with long peals of improvisation flowing over complex beats. Well, there are good beats here - Hamid Drake can never disappoint in that regard. But Fred Anderson seems to have left his creativity at home on this one. The first track, "Leap Forward," is by far the strongest track here, and Anderson manages some interesting bursts alongside Drake's percussion. But after that, Anderson refuses to rise above dull, meandering single-tone statements. A track like "Louisiana Strut" is particularly angering, as Drake lays down a terrific funky beat, only to have Anderson stumble along on an annoying two-note phrase, over and over and over for 9 minutes. The worst track is the closer, with Drake moaning the title ("Lama Khyenno") for the entire 12 minute duration, as Anderson does nothing but softly blow one note. I'm not sure who this album was designed for - it certainly offers no memorable themes, and the improv is so limited in harmonic complexity as to put the listener to sleep.

Worth waiting for........2004-05-16

Tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson and percussionist Hamid Drake have a musical relationship that spans over 30 years. Although Fred is in his 70's and Hamid young enough to be his son, one would never know it. Fred plays with a vigor not found in players half his age. They have recorded and played together often over the years, but never before as a duo.

Even with a limited palette, these two conjure complex sound worlds as much blues based as informed by ethnic cultures from across the globe. Although a definite free jazz influence can be heard, inventive melodicism and rhythmic complexity are the standard here. There is a subtle world music flavoring to Hamid's percussion whereas Fred's playing owes more to Sonny Rollins' melodic inventiveness than John Coltrane's timbral ferocity. A fine and empathetic session, and one well worth the wait.

This album also comes with an enhanced bonus disc containing interviews and studio footage. It provides a window into these players working methods and musical ideologies.

Stripped down.......2004-04-12

Fred Anderson is a veteran of the AACM who's never quite got his due. His discography has been rather erratic, with a handful of things from the late 1970s & early 1980s, & then a long gap until fairly recently, when Okkadisk & Delmark began to get him on tape in a serious way. He deserves credit among other things for fostering the talents of the young drummer Hamid Drake; their musical partnership goes back on disc as far as 1978. _Back Together Again_ is their first recording as a duet. It's a beautifully packaged disc, & Thrill Jockey have clearly taken a lot of trouble over it--even commissioning a filmmaker to document the session (complete video clips of three performances are included on a bonus CD-ROM, plus two long interview sequences). I was pretty hyped about it, so find myself rather disappointed that, while this is a good album, it's rather less remarkable than one might have expected.

It is, to be sure, quite a pretty disc. Drake's buzzing hand-drums & buoyant kitwork are as good as always; he's largely playing in time here rather than "free", & the grooves he comes up with are quite infectious. You could wish, though, that he'd varied the tempos a bit more--a burner couldn't've hurt things, or at the very least some more variety from track to track (for instance, the first & second tracks are at virtually the same tempo). Anderson's improvising rarely gets too far from a blues & r'n'b feel, & in small doses it's very pleasing, soulful playing. But he seems to have lost the drive to _build_ solos rather than just riff, & so none of these pieces, even the longest tracks, ever gets much beyond its initial premises. Sometimes this is genuinely frustrating: "Louisiana Strut" starts like it's hot stuff indeed, but over 9 minutes Anderson never escapes the gravitational force of the piece's opening lick. Other pieces work out better: the opening "Leap Forward", for instance (with Drake overdubbing multiple hand-drum rhythms) is great stuff. -- Listeners may well be divided over "Lama Khyenno", the last track, which is a quarter-hour of Drake chanting the phrase over hand drums, with Anderson adding minimalist obbligatos. Like the rest of the album, it's a very nice mood-piece that doesn't really go anywhere & is definitely too long.

Fans of Anderson & Drake will definitely want to check this album out, despite its flaws; as for me, I'm an impatient sort: 73 minutes of this is simply too much. Some tenor/drums albums are marvels of invention, pulling an improbable amount of colour & variety out of a limited instrumentation. This one, though, sounds _too_ stripped-down: you keep wishing that a bass player or second horn would step in & goose the players a bit.

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Absolutely Love It!!!!!!

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Absolutely Love It!!!!!!.......2005-09-24

So proud to see Freddie and Melissa again and whats even better is their back together again. Great job guys!!!! Looking forward to the album!!!!!

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