Maceo Parker, touring.
Taking advantage of the great saxophonist of our time, Maceo Parker, has been touring our country with the WDR Big Band, I present to this great musician who combines funk and jazz with higher doses of the former.
Accompanied by Dennis Chambers (drums), Rodney Curtis (bass) and the WDR Big Band composed powerful pr 20 musicians and conducted by Michael Abene. It has come to our country with the show Roots 'n' Grooves that The first part consists of more soul, dedicated to Ray Charles and a second more funk he gives vent to his creations. Music with capital letters, no doubt. A treat for those lucky enough to listen.
I leave, of course, the biography detailing Friends Acid Jazz Hispano.
Maceo Parker is one of the most important saxophonists and composers of funk. His music is, as he says, "2% jazz and 98% of funk", but also is liable for soul and jazz-soul of the sixties. His albums ensure the enjoyment to any lover of funk and soul of the seventies: for those who are choking electronics here have a name that approach. Known for his long association with the father of soul James Brown (who coined the phrase, "Maceo, I want you to blow"), has participated in numerous projects and groups, as with George Clinton, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament, Funkadelic, De La Soul, the JB horns and, more recently, Prince, for his Musicology Tour in 2004.
Maceo's music career took a turn in 1964, the year he and his brother Melvin studied music at the College of North Carolina. One night, James Brown, seeking a place to dine, he entered a club in which Melvin was playing drums. The Godfather of Soul was so impressed that he said that, if practiced with the soul, would offer a job. A year later, Brown's band playing in North Carolina, Melvin went to the limo of the star, recalling his words from a year earlier. Brown not only took the job as a drummer, but, at the request of Melvin, also hired Maceo. The two brothers became members of the band of JB, and what was originally planned as a collaboration of six months lasted for many years.
After this period of intensive training (before that, Maceo and had spent years playing the saxophone with the group Junior Blue Notes, formed by its two brothers and him), he defined as "being in the university," the saxophonist decided to become independent, recording, along with All The King's Men, the album Doing Their Own Thing (1970), to be followed by Funky Music Machine (1975). Meanwhile, U.S. released the album, available only imported from Japan.
In 1989 came to the store For all the king's men, but the real leap forward came a year later with the release of Roots Revisited, masterful album that garnered a huge sales success and critical. The success would be repeated twice, with the album Mo 'Roots, 1991 and Life on Planet Groove, recorded en directo en 1992, en Alemania. Tras esta época dorada, el saxofonista siguió ampliando su discografía con notables trabajos: Southern exposure, de 1993, Soundtrack, de 1994, también grabado en directo y Funk olverload, de 1998.
Ya en esta década, ha editado tres nuevos álbumes: Dial Maceo, del 2000, Made by Maceo y, por último, School’s in, en Marzo del 2005, uno de sus mejores discos de los últimos años. En el futuro inmediato, podremos disfruta de alguno de sus magníficos conciertos, hasta la llegada de un nuevo trabajo que, conociendo su ritmo de trabajo, no debería tardar mucho en salir.
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