Marcus Miller - M2

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Music Review: E = M2 C.....
Rating: 5 Stars

You cannot get no greater jazz CD than this. Well, to me it's labeled jazz, but in the spirit of jazz, Marcus has metamorphosed the genre into something else, something more. Something I find my feeble words are not doing justice for. I have always dug the cat from way back when...I noticed him originally on Roberta Flack's "Live and More" album. It was kinda an inaugural production for where Miller and Vandross would take the pop-Soul sound to in those many early Lu Vandross tunes.

Don't forget that lil Marcus Miller tidbit, but see, that was then, this is now. Marcus is and always will be a great bass player, but to me he is a true genius. You gotta hear this guy on this CD to really know what I mean. He plays a myriad of instruments, synthetisers, and bass clarinets(?!)...vocorders... A four string fretted 1977 Fender Bass....

Most of the tracks are mixed by the great Ray Bardani. Marcus' many collaborators here include Branford Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Poogie Bell, Herbert Laws, Raphael Saddiq (on the great track "Boomerang"), Hiram Bullock, Djavan, Chaka Khan, and the lovely Nikki Miller. It reminds me of what Stanley Crouch says of the true democracy of jazz...evvybody's got to do their job, evvy body's got to KNOW HOW TO PLAY (not to mention how to outright groove) and leave your egos at the door, you WILL get a solo in a set or two or three.... Back to the CD. You will simply love each cut....the classic remakes of tunes of Coltrane, Mingus ("Goodby Pork Pie Hat"), and Cobham...the art house funk of The Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" (one of my all time favorite THs tunes)....Marcus' original compositions, "Power" and "Three Dueces"....

I don't think I write anything that can really do justice for the stupendous production. And when that happens, I say to myself, "This is what it means to be transcendent..."

Get this CD and see exactly what greatness you have been missing.

Description of M2

Jazz CDs

• Music > Styles
• Pop
• R&B