Maggie's Back in Town!!

Maggie's Back in Town!! Artist: Howard McGhee
Label: Ojc
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218669320
EAN: 0025218669320
ASIN: B000000YWJ


Release Date: 1992-02-17

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Tracks:

  1. Demon Chase
  2. Willow Weep For Me
  3. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
  4. Sunset Eyes
  5. Maggie's Back In Town
  6. Summertime
  7. Brownie Speaks

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars At least he was back for a little while anyway . . ........2002-05-30

Don't pay ANY attention to the drivel written by "punkviper." He loses all credibility when he refers to Lou Donaldson as a hard-bop TRUMPET player. I laughed so hard at this pretentious drivel I almost fell out of my chair!

This is a cookin' session with a killer rythym section by a true master of the bebop trumpet. A really terrific album.

3 out of 5 stars One Trick Pony.......2002-05-18

I would file this right next to Donald Byrd's 1960 "Byrd In Flight" and Lou Donaldson's 1958 "Blues Walk" as solid yet unspectacular 2nd tier hard-bop albums. The playing is fairly standard for the era, and strays very little from the formula. Granted, this recording was made 10+ years after McGhee's famous heyday, so maybe it should be judged on an appropriately lesser scale. There's not much wrong with it, except for the fact that very little of it stands out as memorable. Okay for a beginner, but a bit stale for the initiated.

For better hard bop of the same period, might I suggest Kenny Dorham's 1961 "Whistlestop" or Blue Mitchell's 1960 "Blue's Moods." And how could we forget Lee Morgan's brilliant 1963 "The Sidewinder."

McGhee is best heard in his prime late 1940's material. And if that era is your cup of tea, you shouldn't miss Fats Navarro's contributions in the same time-frame.

5 out of 5 stars McGhee Beyond Bebop.......2000-06-21

Before buying this disc I was guilty of pidgeon-holing Howard McGhee as strictly a bebop trumpeter based on his earlier associations with Fats Navarro and others. But this recording from 1961 shows his range and versatility. Sure, there's a bop-influence here but there's also plenty of driving swing (hard to miss with Manne & Vinnegar as the engine) and ballads to make us "mainstreamers" happy. The charts are tight, the playing excellent and the recording first rate. I was surprised and delighted by this CD and have yet to tire of it.

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