Bill Cosby presents Badfoot Brown & The Bunions Bradford Funeral and Marching Band
Meant to put something up about this album a while ago, but apparently forgot.
Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band
Bill Cosby put out this all-instrumental soul/funk/jazz album back in 1971. It remained on vinyl and impossible to find until Dusty Groove reissued it on cd on their own label a few years ago. There's no mention of the other musicians, either in the liner notes or anywhere online that I can find, but rumored to involve mostly well known L.A. jazz studio musicians, many of whom wanted to keep their name out of it due to contract problems.
Dusty Groove, in their little blurb of the cd, describes it as a messed-up jam session that turned into a mind-blowing album. Not a bad description. It's got two songs, the first "Martin's Funeral" begins with a haunting opening that builds and crashes with intensity a couple times during its fifteen minutes. The other song "Hybish Shybish" is a fun bit of improvisation jamming.
Tribe Called Quest sampled Martin's Funeral, which stoked renewed interest in the album. The album's unavailability and (at the time) vinyl-only status bumped up the feverish pursuit of it. Dusty Groove finally put many people, completely disinterested in slogging through bins of old vinyl, out of their misery.
The album is terrifically fun and interesting. Well worth obtaining.
Here's the Dusty Groove page...
http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=k6y6k5c8nb
And here's a site where you can listen to the song Martin's Funeral...
http://musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/audio-bill-cosby-martins-funeral-1971/
Not on emu as far as I can tell.
Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown & The Bunions Bradford Funeral & Marching Band
Bill Cosby put out this all-instrumental soul/funk/jazz album back in 1971. It remained on vinyl and impossible to find until Dusty Groove reissued it on cd on their own label a few years ago. There's no mention of the other musicians, either in the liner notes or anywhere online that I can find, but rumored to involve mostly well known L.A. jazz studio musicians, many of whom wanted to keep their name out of it due to contract problems.
Dusty Groove, in their little blurb of the cd, describes it as a messed-up jam session that turned into a mind-blowing album. Not a bad description. It's got two songs, the first "Martin's Funeral" begins with a haunting opening that builds and crashes with intensity a couple times during its fifteen minutes. The other song "Hybish Shybish" is a fun bit of improvisation jamming.
Tribe Called Quest sampled Martin's Funeral, which stoked renewed interest in the album. The album's unavailability and (at the time) vinyl-only status bumped up the feverish pursuit of it. Dusty Groove finally put many people, completely disinterested in slogging through bins of old vinyl, out of their misery.
The album is terrifically fun and interesting. Well worth obtaining.
Here's the Dusty Groove page...
http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=k6y6k5c8nb
And here's a site where you can listen to the song Martin's Funeral...
http://musicophiliadaily.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/audio-bill-cosby-martins-funeral-1971/
Not on emu as far as I can tell.