View basket “Somethin’ Else (Blue Vinyl Series)” has been added to your basket. Sin & Soul Oscar Brown Jr SKU: EUROS8377 Barcode: 4260019714015 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 28th September 2011 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When Oscar Brown died at the age of 78 in 2005, one journalist at least, from The New York Times, was unsure as to how to describe the artist to whom America had just bid a final farewell. To write in his obituary that he was a jazz singer seemed too platitudinous, because Brown didn’t just sing his songs, he performed them. But it would have been just as wrong to honor him as a jazz songwriter, despite his collaborations with Miles Davis and Max Roach, because he was more closely associated with gospel, folk and blues. His vocal qualities lie in a recitative-like, dry declamation, sharp as a knife, as is clearly heard in “Work Song”. The pain brought on by life’s adversities can be cried out internally even if you appear to remain unaffected outwardly (“But I Was Cool”). A portion of sarcasm is necessary when the singsong of a slave trader constantly calls for higher bids (“Bid ’Em In”), and when a babbling child can pester its daddy with both banal and existential questions (“Dat Dere”). The generously manned band does not often play all together as in the springy “Signifyin’ Monkey”. Here we have just a few chords on the piano (“Watermelon Man”), there a gently plucked guitar (“Brown Baby”), or a quiet pulsating rhythm (“Afro Blue”) – very often not much more was needed for a sin and soul performance by Oscar Brown, who, by the way, and so typically American, regarded himself as an Entertainer. Quotes from album cover: “Producing television programs for the past decade, I have naturally had occasion to hear a great many newcomers to the entertainment scene. Offhand, I can think of NO ONE who has impressed me more than Oscar Brown on first hearing. He is truly exceptional!” – Steve Allen “Here, FINALLY, is a performer and writer who is so authentically hip that he never overstates his authority.” – Nat Hentoff “He is beyond ALL categories: one of the most gifted and imaginative artists that we have.” – Max Roach “I think Oscar Brown is one of the most creative young men in the musical world today.” – Nina Simone Musicians: Oscar Brown, Jr., vocals Phil Bodner, saxophone Billy Butterfield, trumpet Floyd Morris, piano Don Amone, guitar George Duvivier, bass Osie Johnson, drums Artist Oscar Brown Jr Genre Jazz Label Speakers Corner Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country Germany Track Listings 1. Work Song 2. But I Was Cool 3. Bid 'em High 4. Signifyin' Monkey 5. Watermelon Man 6. Somebody By Me A Drink 7. Rags and Old Iron 8. Dat Dere 9. Brown Baby 10. Humdrum Blues 11. Sleepy 12. 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