Showing posts with label Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jamaaladeen Tacuma. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 March 2009

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Groove (2000)

01.Relax
02.The Hollers Of The Horn
03.Can You Feel It
04.O.T.S. (On The Spot)
05.Clipue
06.In The Mood For Groove
07.Dead Love
08.The Hippest
09.Da Jazz Pizazz
10.It's Out Of Control
11.Phat Back Bass
12.Coming Home Baby
13.Relax (Jazzy Jeep Jaunt)
14.Relax (Instrumental).

Bass - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Drums - ?uest Love (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14) , Tim Hutson (tracks: 4, 10, 12)
Guitar - Richard Tucker (tracks: 4, 10, 12) , Rick Iannacone (tracks: 5, 7) , Zachary Breaux (tracks: 1, 2, 13, 14)
Keyboards - Richard Waller 3rd (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 9, 13, 14)
Saxophone - Ben Schacter* (tracks: 5) , Grover Washington, Jr. (tracks: 1, 8, 13, 14)
Trombone - Tyrone Hill (tracks: 5)
Trumpet - Stan Slotter (tracks: 5)
Trumpet [Pocket] - Ralph Peterson (tracks: 2)
Vocals - Black Thought (tracks: 1, 2, 13) , Malik B (tracks: 8, 9) , Wadud Ahmad (tracks: 10) , YZ (tracks: 5, 7)
Voice - Dyana Williams (tracks: 2).


Notes: Tracks 1, 2, 5, 7 to 9, 13, 14 recorded and mixed at Nebula, Philadelphia, PA; additional recording and mixing at Sonic Recording Studios, Philadelphia, PA Tracks 3, 6, 11 recorded at John Lennon Studio, Aubervillier, France, March 4, 1998 Tracks 4, 10, 12 recorded at Hall Sound Lab, Philadelphia, PA Mastered at Tokyo Recording Co., Ltd.

From Amazon.de-Redaktion
Jamaaladeen Tacuma is a quality of suspects. Definitely. As Rudy McDaniel was born in Philadelphia and grew up, he has since the mid-'70s to the influential electric bass player. Around the same time as Bill Laswell, he developed a variation on the one groovy, but tonally as rhythmically free. One way of playing, which is very much on the entire ensemble effect. Sound and music by Ornette Coleman band Prime Time, for instance, is hardly without Tacuma as possible.

Later benefited people like James "Blood" Ulmer, Olu Dara and Julius Hemphill of Tacuma (and he of them), became his solo career for qualitative Ascent and descent between paragenialischen moments and total rubbish. The direction of Groove 2000, gives the title of the Open before, "Relax." As always, top-filled, move the tracks in the steady flow of radio, the merger is more than free radio, and - besides Tacus Bass - especially by Grover Washington saxophone and Zachary Breaux 'guitar dominated. Awarded rape and casual singsong of Black Thought and Malik B. (The Roots) awaken pleasant memories of A Tribe Called Quest, the instrumentals in a small cast taste good after Steely Dan and George Benson in his better moments, and if at Jamaaladeen Wah Wah occurs, Sly Stone is in the house. Groove 2000 is one of the more coherent and intuitive Tacumas albums and, as one would suspect, even the end of the bygone days of innovation neuroses. - Rolf Jäger

Monday, 19 January 2009

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Dreamscape (1996)

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Dreamscape (1996)




01.Bass Flava Comin At Ya
02.Bass In Ya Face
03.Groove With An Attitude
04.Sunk In The Funk
05.Love Of My Life
06.Let's Have A Good Time
07.Black Pearl
08.Dreamscape
09.Flash Back
10.Sly.





Bass, Percussion, Mixed By, Producer - Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Drums - Adam Guth , Daryl "Kwesi" Burge, Electric Guitar - Jef Lee Johnson , Richard Tucker Electric Guitar, Piano - Rick Iannacone
Saxophone [Tenor, Soprano] - Ben Schacter, Trumpet - Jahphar Barron
Vocals - Ursula Rucker
Recorded and mixed at Sonic Recording Studios, Philadelphia, PA on May 25, 26, 31 & June 6, 1995.

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Jukebox (1988)

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Jukebox (1988)



1.A Time A Place
2.Meta-Morphosis
3.Rhythm Of Your Mind
4.Jam-All
5.In The Mood For Mood
6.Jukebox
7.Naima
8.Zam Zam Was Such A Wonderful Feeling

9.Solar System Blues.
 





Bass, Drums, Synthesizer - Jamaaladeen Tacuma

Drums, Percussion - Dennis Alston (tracks: 1 to 7, 9)
Guitar - Ronnie Drayton* (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9)
Harmonica - Frederick "Popeye" Phineas* (tracks: 9)
Piano, Organ, Keyboards - Alan Sukennik (tracks: 1, 2, 5, 6)
Saxophone, Flute [Pan], Other [Bird Calls] - Abdur Rahim (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 7, 9)
Synthesizer - Alfie Pollit (tracks: 7).

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Boss Of The Bass (1991)

Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Boss Of The Bass (1991)



1.Gotta Be The One
2.Trouble
3.Lovin' Life
4.Characters
5.The Boss Of The Bass
6.Bass In Ya Face
7.I Am Your Man
8.Why Don't You Believe
9.Phone Call.




Backing Vocals - Amo Bagwell (tracks: 8) , Carlton J. West (tracks: 2, 5) , Monique Harcum (tracks: 2 to 4, 7) , Rahim (tracks: 3) , Stacey Harcum (tracks: 1 to 4, 7) , Yvette Miles (tracks:8)
Bass, Drums [Programming] - Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Drums - Darryl Burgee (tracks: 8)
Drums [Programming], Keyboards - Kae Williams Jr.
Guitar - Richard Tucker (tracks: 4, 6) , Ronnie Drayton* (tracks: 2, 3, 8)
Keyboards - Rory Bennett (tracks: 1)
Other [Sounds], Turntables - Sean Jodi Diaz (tracks: 5, 9) , William "Spinbad" Dodson (tracks: 6)
Percussion - Terrence Floyd (tracks: 2, 8)
Rap, Backing Vocals - YZ (tracks: 5, 9)
Saxophone - Louis Taylor (tracks: 4, 8, 9)
Trumpet, Flugelhorn - Gerald Chavis (tracks: 8)
Vocals - Aziz (tracks: 1 to 4, 7, 8) , Ernesta Dunbar (tracks: 5)