ReBirth Brass Band - The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf
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Artist: ReBirth Brass BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Music Label: Louisiana Red Hot
Soundtracks:
- Intro - Henri Smith
- Blackbird Special
- It's All Over Now
- Don't Start No Shit!
- Just the Two of Us
- Main Event: Tornado Special/Ooh Nah Nay (The Rebith Way)/Before I ...
- We Come to Party
Music reviews of The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf
Music Review: Must be better live
Rating: 2 Stars
It's quite apparent that the Rebirth Brass Band knows how to jam. The energy, the excitement...it's all there in the album; you can tell these guys are having as much fun as their audience. But this album is just awful for two reasons: 1) The recording is bad. 2) The musicianship displayed is NOT top-quality.
The recording levels, combined with the proximity of a snare drum add a constant buzz to the sound--particularly the sousaphone--that will drive you nuts! I want to hear a powerful, booming rhythm section, but fuzzy sound just sucks the enjoyment right out of what is obviously a jumping set.
The CD is fun, and it's obvious everyone is having a blast, but don't hope much for a good sound or brilliant technical artistry. This is a party band. Their attacks are shaky, their intonation suspect, and their abilities obviously not at acme during the session. Solos are repetitive and unmusical. Musical dynamics are all triple-f. The band loves to scream hip-hop rhymes and catchphrases during lulls and between tunes--rap-stuff like the ubiquitous "now somebody scream!" Poor sound feedback at the venue? Too much drinking? Who knows? The CD becomes one long, monotonous, atonal mass of squawking brass and silly audience-prodding. It all adds up to something resembling a drunken pep-rally.
I had very high hopes for this CD, and I still hold out some hope for the band. I love Dixieland. I love brass. I didn't love this album, and that really, really disappoints me.
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