Night Train

Artist: King Curtis Label: Prestige Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 025218515320 EAN: 0025218515320 ASIN: B000000ZEO Release Date: 1995-04-17

Tracks:

1. Fever
2. Honky Tonk
3. So Rare
4. Tippin' In
5. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
6. Tuxedo Junction
7. The Hucklebuck
8. Lean Baby
9. Harlem Nocturne
10. Night Train
11. Soft
12. Free For All
13. Easy-Like
14. Hot Saxes
15. I'll Wait For You
16. The Party Time Twist
17. Low Down
18. Keep Movin'
19. (Let's Do) The Hully Gully Twist
20. Slow Motion
21. Firefly
22. Something Frantic

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Customer Reviews:

Mother's milk -.......2000-01-30

Curtis's sound is huge, every note forcefully played, driving, and still, while he plays with tremendous power, his sound is also completely nuanced. Probably every sax player who has played rhythm and blues has played some of King Curtis's licks, but his power and finesse are unmatched; no one can play these licks as well as Curtis.

Curtis invented rock and roll sax, but this was not the limit of his inventivenss, for an example of his playing outside the idiom, check out "Hot Saxes", this track features a tenor battle with Sam "The Man" Taylor, with both players in top form; and Curtis's playing in particular is superb, and he plays some licks you never heard on "Short Shorts" to keep one step ahead of "The Man". My favorite cut is "Hully Gully Twist", it has a super funky guitar riff a la New Orleans's Earl King, and Curtis's four chorus solo is pure power start to finish.

The disc has some great players, like Taylor, Jack McDuff on organ, Billy Butler on guitar. They're playing the rock and roll idiom, track that are two or three minutes long, with easy melodies and easy chords, but even so, there is some great playing on this disc by any standard.

KING CURTIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST SIDE MEN IN MUSIC........1999-05-16

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