Picked this gem up in a second-hand record shop and it was truly 'a find' - a day later it still is.
When it comes to baritone players Cuber is up there with best as he proves on this 1986 album. With fellow funky jazz rocker Sanborn alongside him they prove to be an amazing team. Apart from On Green Dolphin Street and David Matthew's Heavy Hang and Two Brothers the other four tracks on this 'preloved' piece of vinyl are all Cuber compositions that seem to fall effortlessly beneath the fingers of all seven. Effortlessly? Try matching the dexterity of the 'siblings' on Two Brothers - it's fast!
Move It, the opening track on side two, does just that. Both horns reaching towards the outer limits.
Despite the unappealing title, Snotty swings like crazy. Again Cuber and Sanborn release their chops to great effect. Guitarist Wadenious and Mounsey, on a Hammondish sounding keyboard, also latch on to the groove set by Gadd and Lee. The tempo changes, orchestrated by Matthews who arranged all seven tracks, add that little bit extra to a track that would otherwise have been merely fantastic.
Pin Point is another piece of magic whilst Afro-Cuber is predominately baritone over percussion. Tremendous!
If I'd been compiling Album of the Year lists in 1986 This could well have been it! Lance.
Ps: And my day didn't end there! In the second of my earlier Sinatra posts I mentioned that I didn't have his legendary album Where Are You? Well, I do now and I got it in the same Sunderland shop for free! The guy behind the counter examined the CD and decided that it had a few marks that would probably effect the sound quality and he let me have it buckshee! It actually plays perfectly!
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