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Kevin Mahogany: Pride & Joy
The Tamala-Motown songbook...
Kevin Mahogany is a bit of a quandary. A very fine jazz vocalist, Mahogany is not content just to recapitulate the standards. His current Pride & Joy and 2000's Pussy Cat Dues— The Music of Charles Mingus are both tightly focused efforts intent on shining a light on little illuminated corners of jazz. Pride & Joy is a swinging tribute to Motown. Mahogany opens his tribute with a down-on-the-corner a cappella "Signed, Sealed, and Delivered." Marvin Gaye's "Pride and Joy" is transformed from a Motown template into a swinging jazz vehicle that Mahogany takes for a spin. "Tear's of a Clown" is delivered as an angular ballad with only guitar accompaniment. A cappella delivery returns with "Reach Out I'll Be There." "Never Can Say Goodbye" is slickly produced and performed. Mahogany throws off these gems in the same way George Gordon, Lord Byron could throw off brilliant verse— without effort. Pride & Joy is well-conceived and delivered...Signed and Sealed.
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I'm Sanctified and Southern Fried / Mama tried and daddy cried / I tell the truth 'cept when I've lied / And like my huevos on the side.
Track Listing
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours; Pride and Joy; I Can't Get Next to You; Neither One of Us (Wants to be the First to Say Goodbye); The Tears of a Clown; Reach Out I'll Be There; My world Is empty Without You; Never Can Say Goodbye; She's Out of My Life; The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game; Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
Personnel
Kevin Mahogany
vocalsKevin Mahogany, Gregory Clark, Todd Johnson, Gerald Trottman, Peter Eldridge - Vocals; Jon Faddis - Trumpet; James Weideman - Piano; Dave Stryker - Guitar; Melissa Slocum - Bass; Charles Haynes - Drums/Telephone Books; Don Alias - Percussion
Album information
Title: Pride & Joy | Year Released: 2002 | Record Label: Telarc Records
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