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Live and Funky
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by Pee Wee Ellis
Price:$39.99
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Album Details
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1. Chicken - Pee Wee Ellis, Ellis, Pee Wee
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2. How I Depend on You - Pee Wee Ellis, Williams, Doug
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3. Grandma's Hands - Pee Wee Ellis, Withers, Bill
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4. Pass the Peas - Pee Wee Ellis, Brown, James
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5. House Party - Pee Wee Ellis, Wesley, Fred
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6. What's Up With That - Pee Wee Ellis, Ellis, Alfred
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7. Cherry Red - Pee Wee Ellis, Turner
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8. Cold Sweat/Licking Stick Licking Stick - Pee Wee Ellis, Brown, James
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9. I Got the Feeling - Pee Wee Ellis, Brown, James
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10. I Got You I Feel Good - Pee Wee Ellis, Brown, James
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Listener Reviews & Comments
Pee Wee Ellis must have played with James Brown for 100 years, and when James called for a sax solo it was always, to the best of my knowledge, "Maceo", and when the horn section finally decided to do something on their own it was "Fred Wesley, Maceo, and the J.B.'s". And yet, if you listen to the tenor solo on "Chicken" on Maceo's "Mo Roots", the player takes Maceo and Fred out, way badder, in my opinion then these very bad dudes. The tenor man was James' shadow man, Pee Wee Ellis. "Chicken" is a tune he wrote, he plays it again on this cd with the same results. He also plays a solo that is the essence of funk, the thing, dirty as you wanna be, down in the dirt, the stone cold funk, on "Pass the Peas". His style is funky, black as James Brown, but, at the same time, with chromatic post bop extensions that distinguishes him from the more traditional players (including Fred and Maceo). So you're funking along with the usual hard riffs, and then comes a flat nine and a sharp 13, and you're over the top, doin it, briefly in the grey area between harmony and dissonance, pleasure and pain, the real deal, and then, back to the funk. Here's the thing, it's jazz and it's funky and the setting is pure funk - this is the man to listen to to hear great funk sax.
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Live and Funky
by Pee Wee Ellis
Price:$39.99
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