Citrus Sun - Another Time Another Space
Citrus Sun
Another Time Another Space
2001 Rice Records/Heads Up International
This is not a Citrus Sun record. It's an Incognito record. It's Incognito acting its namesake. And while this record veers closer to the smooth jazz side of Incognito (which is to say Incognito really has become an acid-jazz band that gave itself a second life as purveyors of slightly more ambitious quiet storming). Why is this Incognito? Because it is an album "conceived and produced by Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick" and Bluey is the same guy who conceives and produces and plays on all Incognito records.
It also features many players who have either regularly or sporadically played on Incognito records: Fayazz Virji, Graham Harvey, Gary Sanctuary, Richard Bailey, Max Beesley and Bluey himself in a few spots.
How does this stack up? Well, it lacks Maysa, Kellie Sae, or any of the other vocalists typical to a Bluey release, so that element leaves quite a few of the compositions a bit stark, and forcing the group to delve a little too far into Najee-esque softness on its reliance on things like Ed Jones playing soprano sax as he does on the 6+ minutes of Budapest. Soprano sax has been raped of relevance and listenability in most soul and jazz by that Ghengis Khan of tacky idiocy that is Kenny G (Pat Metheny knows your true name fool). The result is the only place to hear good soprano is on more straightahead jazz like on albums by Wayne Shorter ond Branford Marsalis, or going back to Eric Dolphy and/or John Coltrane
When the group plays more bass and rhodes heavy foundations, the results are a step up; Somewhere Nowhere and What it is are prime examples. The bass and drum parts are solid, which is typical of a Bluey production, but the rest is too faceless and run of the mill smooth-jazz, that unless you are an actual fan of the genre or a hardcore devotee of Bluey, you will most likely find this release a bit lackluster.
Another Time Another Space
2001 Rice Records/Heads Up International
This is not a Citrus Sun record. It's an Incognito record. It's Incognito acting its namesake. And while this record veers closer to the smooth jazz side of Incognito (which is to say Incognito really has become an acid-jazz band that gave itself a second life as purveyors of slightly more ambitious quiet storming). Why is this Incognito? Because it is an album "conceived and produced by Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick" and Bluey is the same guy who conceives and produces and plays on all Incognito records.
It also features many players who have either regularly or sporadically played on Incognito records: Fayazz Virji, Graham Harvey, Gary Sanctuary, Richard Bailey, Max Beesley and Bluey himself in a few spots.
How does this stack up? Well, it lacks Maysa, Kellie Sae, or any of the other vocalists typical to a Bluey release, so that element leaves quite a few of the compositions a bit stark, and forcing the group to delve a little too far into Najee-esque softness on its reliance on things like Ed Jones playing soprano sax as he does on the 6+ minutes of Budapest. Soprano sax has been raped of relevance and listenability in most soul and jazz by that Ghengis Khan of tacky idiocy that is Kenny G (Pat Metheny knows your true name fool). The result is the only place to hear good soprano is on more straightahead jazz like on albums by Wayne Shorter ond Branford Marsalis, or going back to Eric Dolphy and/or John Coltrane
When the group plays more bass and rhodes heavy foundations, the results are a step up; Somewhere Nowhere and What it is are prime examples. The bass and drum parts are solid, which is typical of a Bluey production, but the rest is too faceless and run of the mill smooth-jazz, that unless you are an actual fan of the genre or a hardcore devotee of Bluey, you will most likely find this release a bit lackluster.
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