The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Open Up, Whatcha Gonna Do for the Rest of Your Life 1992

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Open Up, Whatcha Gonna Do for the Rest of Your Life 1992
Label: Columbia

Jazz
 
If you're a tuba or bari sax player, add eight or ten more stars to my review, because this band spotlights its superb tuba and bari sax. A great solid dance CD, although I like the regular Dirty Dozen band -- with the electric bass, organ etc. for a more straight-up funk sound. This one is a tad more artsy and restrained. But make no mistake, it's great fun!............KOBY.
By  Yakov Chodosh .
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The Dirty Dozen Brass Band sticks to originals (except for Johnny Dyani's "Eyomzi") on this fairly adventurous set. The octet (which consists of two trumpets, two saxes, one trombone, sousaphone, snare drum and bass drum) still had a unique sound in 1991 but three songs on the date only used part of the unit and the DDBB seemed to be trying to escape the sound of the brass band tradition (they had long had a more modern repertoire). Not all of the pieces work although the music in general is pretty colorful and somewhat unpredictable, even if it falls short of essential.
By Scott Yanow, All Music Guide.
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Lionel Batiste- Drums (Bass), Drums (Snare), Cowbell, Hi Hat 
Gregory Davis- Trumpet, Finger Cymbals   
Kevin Harris- Sax (Tenor), Vocals, Cowbell, Ride Cymbal  
Charles Joseph- Trombone, Tambourine, Vocals
Kirk Joseph- Sousaphone, Vocals
Roger Lewis- Sax (Baritone), Sax (Soprano)
Jenell Marshall- Drums (Bass), Claves, Drums (Snare)    
Efrem Towns- Trumpet
Raymond Weber- Drums
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01. Use Your Brain 6:44
02. Open Up (Whatcha Gonna Do For Rest of Your Life) 2:55
03. The Lost Souls (Of Southern Louisiana) Cortege 14:24
04. Deorc Sceadu (Dark Shadow) 2:23
05. Dominique 4:25
06. Charlie Dozen 4:53
07. Song For Lady M 5:02
08. Remember When 4:10
09. Darker Shadows 5:37
10. Eyomzi 4:30
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