Evidence

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Evidence,David Coate,Turning Point Records,David Coate’s music is high-energy Christian Pop/Rock featuring soaring vocals and guitars.

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Sun Ra - Misunderstood Genius
Genuine hi-fi sci-fi jazz
The worst Sun Ra is better than most other stuff
Top notch psychedelic jazz music
Entrancing Ra

Lanquidity
Sun Ra
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004XSLJ
Release Date: 2000-09-26

Tracks:

Lanquidity
Where The Pathways Meet
That's How I Feel
Twin Star Of Thence
There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)

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This 1978 session, coming relatively late in Sun Ra's creative history, is another extraordinary venture into uncharted musical terrain. As the name suggests, it's a liquid and languid musical state, from the lounge area of Ra's cosmos, but it can also be resiliently funky and subtly dissonant in ways unheard outside the orchestra's precincts. The rhythm section of electric bass, two guitars, and three drummers creates deep pulsing grooves for Sun Ra's assortment of ethereal organs and synthesizers and a horn complement of two trumpets and five reeds that are used sparingly for maximal effect. There are some elements of commercial crossover funk and even Miles Davis's electric period, but this is highly original music, an acid jazz prototype in which groove and electronica intersect with muted brass and a heady assortment of reeds and percussion. Sudden squiggles of funk guitar mix with strong improvisation from Sun Ra and his regular soloists, like saxophonists John Gilmore and Marshall Allen, who are always ready to bend the music into some new pitch zone. The lyrical title track bears a resemblance to Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," and "There Are Other Worlds" is supplemented by overdubbed "Ethnic Voices" and additional percussion and electronics, creating an eerily engaging tapestry. Recorded in a New York studio with the sound further improved by Evidence, this is unusually well recorded for Sun Ra music of the period, a warm bath in music both lush and exotic. --Stuart Broomer

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Sun Ra - Misunderstood Genius.......2007-05-12

Sun Ra is really one of a kind in Jazz, he was a pioneer for Avant Garde just as much as he was a colourful and absurd personality that dressed in Exotic or futuristic clothes and claimed he was born on another planet. By most accounts he was born as Herman Sonny Blount 1914 in Birmingham, AL and came to promise in the 50's with his exprimental music that would become an unique take on Avant Garde Jazz soon enough. Few Jazz critics ever took him serious cause of his personality and lifestyle and his music was very controvercial for Jazz Purists during his whole recording history. In particular the album "Atlantic" from 1967 released just 2 years prior to Miles Davis "Bit*es" Brew" when he would be exploring mythical music from the past in what was an indescribable sound of drums and organs. Regardless of Sun Ra was exploring music from the past or futuristic space music, his music is diffrent then anything else and it's both creative and odd. Sun Ra's only interest in life was music, he would be recording or playing with his band from morning to night and for a man like him he made a huge catalogue of music, some really good music, some less interesting but always worth to check out.

"Lanquidity" from 1978, Released about 10 years after the Avant Garde/Fusion hype that came in the 60's is perhaps Sun Ra's best album and most accessible aswell. Apart from most musicians Sun Ra's creative peak never ended, he would still be recording music to the last years of his life but around 1978 he was recording some of the best music of his life. "Lanquidity" is a recommended album in the sense that it isn't as absurd or unpenetratable as some of his music. It's very meliodic with an almost trance feeling. It's a Fusion inspired Jazz-Funk album with 5 songs that are quite coherant and as usual his big band appearence makes the sound of it very fascinating and grand. Opener and title a midtempo track almost sounds like in a trance, Sun Ra plays his electric piano while saxophonist John Gilmore jumps in with a great solo and all of the others deliver the best of their exotic instruments. All brilliantly produced and coherant. "Where Pathways Meet" is quite diffrent, it's a funky number in fast pace with Trumpet in focus. This one is not as revolutionary as some of the other music, but a real swagger. The third song is really beautiful, it's called "That's How I Feel" one of my personal favorite Sun Ra compositions. It feautures horns and a great electric piano melody that goes on for the entire song. A Bit simular to the opener. "Twin Stars Of Thense" is brilliant aswell, it's also slightly funky with both piano and horn solos. Less meliodic, but nice Fusion recording. "There are Other Worlds" feauture the voice of June Tyson and with some occasional horn sound here and there but the song itself is very mysterious, ending up like a long trance more then an actual song. But this was the whole point cause Sun Ra wants you to pay attention to small details in his music and feeling it's groove. Most songs here are about 6 to 10 minutes so they aren't as long as some of Miles David Fusion recordings, thus it's easy to get into the album + it's mostly meliodic and accessable to most people.

Needless to say, This is perhaps Sun Ra's best album and a good way to get to know him. The man, the myth the legend Sun Ra who by most people atleast recognozed as a musical genius, a bandleader, composer, producer and extremly multitalented and creative musician. In my oppinion, one of the most fascinating persons in Music History. If you're further interested in his personality and music there are some documentaries available that covers some of his life and plenty of good albums and articles to check out too.

Genuine hi-fi sci-fi jazz.......2007-02-12

When Carl Sagan pondered the possibility of life elsewhere in the solar system, he conjured up creatures such as a hot-air balloon-sized flying jellyfish that would float through Jupiter's blistering atmosphere propelled by sulfurous discharges. Sun Ra operates on a similar wavelength, apparently attempting to recreate what musical instruments would sound like on other worlds. "Lanquidity" is the most repeatedly listenable Ra release I've encountered (The title track for "The Magic City," for instance, an album released 13 years earlier in 1965 sounds much like a construction site hooked up to a loudspeaker) and one that easily holds its own beside Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew," Art Blakey's "Free for All" and Sonny Sharrock's "Ask the Ages." The meandering Hammond, droning horns, and occasional whale-speak and duck-honk effects give the set a malleable, dreamy complexion. "There Are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)" feels like a combo LSD deprogramming session and love-in taking place inside a robotic whale adrift in the deep ocean. Some of the songs even suggest a contemporary trip-hop vibe, then abruptly zoom ahead back into the future and eventually steps outside time's bounds, just looking back at the one-dimensional timeline, nothing more than a stray slug's slime trail. Like music that makes you jabber like you're Carlos Castaneda? Then this is the one.

The worst Sun Ra is better than most other stuff.......2006-04-30

There is no "typical" Sun Ra, however this one is unique. Way unique. Well worth hearing.

Top notch psychedelic jazz music.......2005-04-30

Moore has no idea what he's talking about. Sun Ra never had no commercial ambitions. Whatever was created by him and his arkestra was personal expression, regardless of how many chromatic intervals there are per song (a very simplistic way of looking at Sun Ra's music). Lanquidity has been my favorite Sun Ra record because of its accessability. Much of Sun Ra's music just throws you alone into empty space; in Lanquidity Sun Ra keeps you company on this journey into outer space. The album's definately among Sun Ra's groovier stuff. It freaks out my mom.

Entrancing Ra.......2001-08-18

There may be comparisons as to what this music sounds 'like' but like must of Ra's work, it defies boundaries. These tracks are perfect for late night listening. The songs, beginning with track 1, but particularly tracks 2-4, build into a collage of slow grooving, imaginative music which ends with the hypnotic "There Are Other Worlds(They have not told you of)". This may be atypical Ra, according to some, but it IS 'must have' music for the mind.

Vietnam Blues: The Complete L&R Recording

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Masterpiece - nothing else in blues quite like this
sensational discovery
A great reissue of the brilliant work of a neglected master
The Heart and Soul of Blues
A jewel unearthed

Vietnam Blues: The Complete L&R Recording
J.B. Lenoir
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: J.B. Lenoir

ASIN: B0000014PZ
Release Date: 1995-06-27

Tracks:

Alabama
Mojo Boogie
God's Word
The Whale Has Swalloed Me
Move This Rope
I Feel So Good
Alabama March
Talk To Your Daughter
Mississippi Road
Good Advice
Vietnam
I Want To Go
Down In Mississippi
Slow Down Woman
If I Get Lucky
Shot On James Meredith
Round And Round
Voodoo Music
Born Dead
Leavin' Here
Vietnam Blues
How Much More
Tax Payin' Blues
Feelin' Good

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Masterpiece - nothing else in blues quite like this.......2006-10-14

I've just bought this CD for the 4th time - along with Jack Dupree's "Blues From The Gutter", it's the one I give away when I really want to give, and turn someone on to the blues.

It contains JBs last 2 albums before his untimely death in 1967, and represents the full flowering of his groundbreaking African Hunch style. JB was a popular Chicago electric blues musician who gradually evolved a new acoustic sound - syncretising a lot of what had come before, from gritty Delta guitar to barrelhouse-piano style syncopation, and more than a touch of gospel - but sounding fresh and modern; he was moving forwards not back. Sadly this style seems to have died with him; the world has not caught up yet.

All tracks have JB on acoustic guitar and vocals (those words hardly doing justice to what he does with them); many with Freddie Below on drums (inventor of Rock & Roll no matter what anyone else says); and a few with Willie Dixon's atmospheric growling on backup vocal (Willie also produced).

There's nothing else quite like this, though JB's 50's and early 60's Chicago recordings gave some hints of what was to come (a couple of his 50's hits are reworked here). The guitar work is simple yet complex, highly syncopated; the voice a flexible instrument, and the songs are just extraordinary - power and subtlety, tears and laughter, protest and acceptance, folk tales and modern living.

I can't really explain it in words, just listen to some of the samples, bearing in mind the the whole experience is so much more so - at least hear "Alabama", "Mojo Boogie", "Move This Rope", "I Feel So Good", "Good Advice", "Vietnam", "Down In Mississippi", "Voodoo Music", and especially "Born Dead" and "Feelin' Good" ... heck, just get the album! What a trip it is - hearing this for the first time is like hearing Robert Johnson for the first time...

sensational discovery.......2006-02-17

I knew Lenoir from Scorcesse's films "Blues History" . Hia social interests captivated me so much.

A great reissue of the brilliant work of a neglected master.......2005-02-03

Most hardcore blues fans know of J.B.Lenoir, but if you're unfamiliar with him then this CD will be a revelation. He is a unique stylist, master guitar player, and profound lyricist. His singing is powerful, idiosyncratic and full of conviction.

The cuts on this disc have been remastered beautifully, are full of depth and clarity. They represent the broad range of Lenoir's music, from biting social and political songs, through rocking dance numbers, to pieces in a more gospel or spiritual vein. Many of the songs foreground Lenoir's signature "African hunch" polyrhythm, a style as unique to J.B. as the "Bo Diddley beat" is to, well, Bo Diddley.

If you can only get one Lenoir CD, get this one. You'll love it and it'll compel you to get everything available.

The Heart and Soul of Blues.......2004-04-02

This CD is priceless. It is a ticket into another world. The amazing talent & raw heartfelt emotion of J.B. pours out of these songs and takes the listener on a journey. It is political, it's religious, it's sexual, it's unjust defeat, it's resurrection and it's definitely groovin. This is a glimpse into the heart and soul of a black man who lived and died during civil rights movement in the south. This CD gives the listener more than just great music, it serves up human feelings, the composition of life, and that's what the blues is all about.

A jewel unearthed.......2003-10-12

I've only listened to the five excerpts from this CD, in addition to what portions I have heard on Scorsese's documentary, and I can tell you, this man's a genius. His sounds are pure and full of vitality after forty-plus years. He is unique and original; Lenoir's guitar work is rooted in Delta/acoustic guitar blues traditions, yet, in his riffs and songwriting, he displays the savvy hooks and songwriting skills of a contemporary pop tunesmith. Above all, J.B. is laid-back and downright cool--one can't help but sway, bump, and grind, to his swinging rhythms. I hope his relatives, if they are still with us, are getting a significant portion of these royalties. This man was, and is, an American Blues treasure!

P.S. Mayall's song "The death of J.B. Lenoir" is also great; Lenoir seemed to "produce" great music even after his death! We are blessed for being able to hear, and to see (thanks to this new documentary) his incredible gifts after all these years!

Ice-T - Greatest Hits: The Evidence
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Ice is Nice

Old school gangsta rapper with something to say

All Of The OG's Best In One Place

Well I guess that's it

THE ICEMAN COMETH.

Ice-T - Greatest Hits: The Evidence
Ice-T
Manufacturer: Atomic Pop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004UEND
Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

6 'N The Mornin'
I'm Your Pusher
High Rollers
You Played Yourself
Peel Their Caps Back
O.G. Original Gangster
Colors
New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)
Power
I Ain't New Ta This
That's How I'm Livin'
I Must Stand
Squeeze The Trigger
The Tower
The Lane (E.V.A. Remix)
Money, Power, Women

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It's about time. With eight albums to his credit and a reputation that stretches across the globe, someone had to pay tribute to Ice-T. But no one did, so he did it himself. From classics like "6 'N the Mornin" and "I'm Your Pusher" to the more commercial "New Jack Hustler" and "Colors," this compilation is the ultimate cross-section of Ice's hits and favorites. Sure, it may be 13 years worth of material on pimping, playing, and the drug game, but The Evidence demonstrates the strength of a hip-hop artist who's still doing it his way, even into his 40s. Production by Ice himself, Afrika Islam, and DJ Aladdin, among others, underscores the artist's often cinematic approach to hip-hop, with everything from break beats to live bass, ticking snares and guitar licks. If Ice-T is accused of being one of hip-hop's greatest then The Evidence makes him guilty as charged. --Kenji Jasper

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Ice is Nice.......2007-07-06

Good collection of Ice-Ts raps. Ice-T is kinda different from most rappers in that he doesn't rely on the beat and the flow so much. There's not so much instrumentation in his stuff, just a drum usually. Ice T relies on storytelling. His delivery is rough, but that works for his stuff. He conveys the no-nonsense business attitude [and sometimes teh menace] of the streets. Contrary to so many critics of rap, Ice doesn't do a lot of glamorizing. He's just gritty realism. Here's some good raps:

6 in the Morning

I'm YOur Pusher

High Rollers

Original Gangster

Colors - tune from the movie

I Ain't New to This

The Tower - song about going to prison and the scary life inside. Great line: "who's got the power, the whites, the blacks, or just the gun tower." Makes a listener really want to NOT go to prison.

Money, Power, Women - starts with Al Pacino's quote from Scarface. Cool.

Looking at my list, it's pretty long. I think I have to say this album is a strong 4 stars, almost 5. If I were more of a serious rap fan, maybe I'd feel it was a 5. Whatever, this a solid CD with serious rap, good storytelling.
You Played Yourself

Old school gangsta rapper with something to say.......2007-06-18

Here it is, The Evidence from one of the first and best. This CD is so awesome, I love it because it makes you think about things long after the music has stopped.
The first half of this album is remarkable, so many great beats with smart lyrics. I can't really pick a favorite, but I really love the message of track 2, I'm Your Pusher. He tells the self-destructive drug users "You don't know what time it is". Instead of pushin' the rock he's pushin the music. It might sound foolish or silly to some, but I like that positive message about keeping a strong mind.
Then there's track 4, You Played Yourself. It's genius, basically saying stay real to yourself. He preaches "stupid, ignorant--don't even talk to me. In school you dropped math, science, and history. Then you get on the mike and try to act smart. Let me tell you one thing, you got heart". Brilliant. Or he mentions "you thought you could do dope and still stay cool? Fool...you played yourself.
Then on track 6, Original Gangster, he paints a vivid picture of the chaos that surrounds South Central L.A. If you listen to the lyrics, you'll get caught up in the sad violent whirlwind that is constantly spinning. He exclaims "I'd be a true sucker if I act like I didn't care".
And of course there's New Jack Hustler. Nuff said.
There are so many other masterful tracks, like 6 'N The Mornin', High Rollers, Colors, Power, The Tower...man, I better stop.
This album is simply a must own. Once again, nuff said.

All Of The OG's Best In One Place.......2005-07-01

Ice-T is known as the first true "gangster rap" artist. He earned this title not by using excessive violent and vulgar language, but because he told true stories about the life of people in the streets. Tales of husters,pimps,gangsters and prisoners are all told, as well as a few true stories from Ice-T's own life. Every song on this compilation is a classic. If you want to hear real rap music and not crunk pop garbage such as Lil John and Chingy, go to the nearest record store and purchase this collection.

Well I guess that's it.......2004-02-13

With Ice-T making bad movies and silly TV shows, his singing days are over. He probably did this to get out of his contract and be fully available to star in the 'Facts of Life' Reunion tour. I hear he's going to play Mrs. Garret's long lost pimp.

THE ICEMAN COMETH........2003-11-05

This is a well put together compilation from probably the best rapper out today.It contains many of his classic hits and is very well put together.I wish there were more rappers of the same calibre of ice t today.He is a very real person unlike many rappers of today who are simply about image and the pursuit of money.GET THIS CD TODAY.

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Music to make you smile, daddy.
Music to make you smile, daddy.
Eddie was the hippest and foremost vocal interpreter of bop!

The Jazz Singer
Eddie Jefferson
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1993-11-18

Tracks:

So What
Moody's Mood For Love
Sister Sadie
Lester's Trip To The Moon (Paper Moon)
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Now's The Time
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Sherry
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Edgar "Eddie" Jefferson was a multi-instrumentalist, and a versatile entertainer with a head for business that allowed him to become a player/manager in the band of saxophonist James Moody. Jefferson fooled around with the concept of imitating famous solos by scat singing, but took the idea a step further, putting words to the solos. He fashioned words to Moody's famous solo in "I'm in the Mood for Love," thus coining a style which was subsequently popularized by King Pleasure and Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and continues in vogue today. "Moody's Mood for Love" is included here, along with other adaptions like Miles Davis's "So What" and "Lester's Trip to the Moon (Paper Moon)." --John Swenson

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Music to make you smile, daddy........2003-01-11

I'm on a personal crusade to make the world get hip to one of the most underrated, overlooked pioneers of jazz, Eddie Jefferson. As early as 1939, he was experimenting with penning lyrics to recorded horn solos, a syllable for each note, note for note verbatim, and singing them while incorporating scat techniques. What was a fun way to kill time for Eddie eventually blossomed into a whole new area of jazz expression, called "vocalese". Because the first public exposure of vocalese was King Pleasure's hit record "Moody's Mood for Love", many mistakenly assumed that Pleasure was its father, an assumption that he actively promoted. However, the concept and lyrics to "Moody's Mood" were actually Eddie Jefferson's. This would set the tone for Eddie's relegation to virtual obscurity.
What I love about Eddie Jefferson's work, besides his wholey unique voice, honest and candid and smokey with 50's hipster cool, is his lyric composition which, by necessity, has a conversational quality. Both hip-hop and vocalese, because of their formal structures, demand a certain amount of verbosity on the part of the artist. Jefferson's lyrics aren't always as much poetic as prosey, like a street corner conversation that happens to rhyme in places. So, lyrically, he sometimes wanders off into some truly absurdist territory that is hilarious. "I saw a snake with hips/ A chicken with lips/ and that is why I ran away." If Dr. Seuss was a be-bop hipster! And as far as rhyme goes, Eddie is very much unbound by any expectations imposed by rhyme schemes. Through and through, theoretically, he is as spontaneous and free as the horn solo he is working within. And he knows how to pick 'em. This album finds him tackling one of the most beautiful solos in jazz, Miles Davis' from "So What". In this, as in many of Eddie's tunes, he tells a bit of Miles' life story, raps about his fashion sense, the public's perception of him, and how far Miles' thinking was in the future. He reminisces about Charlie Parker in a treatment of Bird's immortal "Now's the Time", written just after his death. I love when Eddie sings Bird, because he's often required to sing a paragraph of words within one bar of music-- so fast you can barely make out what he's saying, but annunciated perfectly. Also a highlight of this album is his take on Coleman Hawkins' "Body and Soul", which I can't praise highly enough. And his version of "Honeysuckle Rose", which I first heard once ten years ago and has been planted in my brain ever since. He's all over it!

Music to make you smile, daddy........2003-01-11

Eddie was the hippest and foremost vocal interpreter of bop!.......1999-07-02

Sadly, most of Eddie's best stuff is out of print, but anything that ever came out of Eddie's mouth is worth listening to, and this album has a fantastic compilation of the early years. His lyrics and delivery will give you a birds eye view of Jazz at its wildest.... Humour, history, hip delivery... its been argued that Eddie Jefferson's "street wise"lyrics" would inspire the routes of hip hop.. Don't know if I would go that far, but as an aspiring Jazz student, Eddie's vocal delivery of classic Jazz solos (Bird, Diz, Bean, etc.) helped me appreciate the music we've come to know and love and understand its evolution. Once you've sampled Eddie Jefferson, and also heard Dakota Staton, Lambert Hendrix and Ross, Mark Murphy and King Pleasure, you'll burn your Michael Bolton records, get out the shades, and head on down to Kansas City (actually Eddie was from Pittsburgh, but he could really give those Bird solos a new light.) Scoop up all the Eddie Jefferson you can find ! Sister Sadie is bad !

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Somewhat disappointed
Eric IS the blues MAN from heaven!
Terrific!
This is my kind of blues
This ain't your grandaddy's Dobro music

Devil's Train
Eric Sardinas
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005N8R6
Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

Piece Of Me
My Sweet Time
Texola
Aggravation Papa
Killin' Time Blues
My Kind Of Woman
Country Mile
Gambling Man Blues
Down To Whiskey
Devil's Train
Be Your Man
Sidewinder
B Goin' South

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On his sophomore release, guitarist Eric Sardinas seems to have chilled out a little, settling into a musical stride that, as with all the best blues, can keep going all day long. While in many ways his music hasn't changed much since 1999's Treat Me Right, Sardinas sounds a lot more confident on this one, especially during Devil's Train's bluesier second half. Here, his admittedly exceptional slide work and gravelly voice are great assets, especially as he relaxes into "Country Mile," duets with Honeyboy Edwards on "Gambling Man Blues," and carries "Down to Whiskey" all the way to the end. Although Sardinas is from southern California--and that's often audible--there's a Texas feel to his blues: it's big, loud, tight, and impossible to ignore. A notable exception is the final track, which ends things on an unexpectedly quiet note. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

Somewhat disappointed.......2004-03-27

I bought this CD based on the reviews here on Amazon. Unfortunately, I'm not that impressed. The playing is good, but seems to lack a bit of soul. Both the vocals and the songs lack variety so it gets a bit monotonous after a few cuts. The production also seems a bit shallow or sparse which might be fine if his playing was more compelling. All in all, listening to this CD is like catching Johnny Winter on an off day.

Eric IS the blues MAN from heaven!.......2003-01-19

I love him!!!!! I love this CD Devil's Train just a much as I love his first! I cannot tell enough people about this hot man. The way he plays guitar is amazing and I have to close my eyes so there is nothing but his guitar and my soul involved and it booms right into me. Eric Sardinas is awesome and I recommend anyone who loves rockin' steamy blues to get this CD! You will not be sorry! Eric IS it! Genuine and sexy to boot - you can't lose!
Thanks Eric! I luv ya! KatGirl

Terrific!.......2002-04-17

Loaded with great phrasing, tremendous slide work, and great song variation, blues lovers cannot go wrong with this tight, exceptional recording.

This is Sardinas' second studio album, and it's just as good as his first, if not better.

This is my kind of blues.......2002-02-03

Yes! I've heard far to many uninspired blues bands , this is definitely not one of them. Lots of attitude and great songs. Eric sardinas combines old blues with a much heavier sound and tons of energy, one can really hear these guys are born to play high octane blues and I mean high octane racing fuel blues! Very impressive, just my kind of blues, can't be improved! A solid 5 star album, trust me.

This ain't your grandaddy's Dobro music.......2001-12-12

Eric Sardinas is a rare talent indeed. If you like high-powered slide guitar electric blues, you can't go wrong with either "Devils Train" or his first one "Treat Me Right". This guy respects the blues tradition so much he's literally got it tattooed on his back, and he knows how to fire it up and make those two modified Dobros wail. Do not pass up a chance to see him live, it's a great show. He looks and plays the bad boy role onstage, but as mentioned by another reviewer, he's easygoing and approachable-- he took some time to tell me about his guitars and thanked me for coming to the show, and he meant it. By all means add this CD to your collection!

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The Weatherman LP
Evidence the rapper/producer
The Weatherman LP
Stellar
Very stormy forcast with bright spots from THE WEATHERMAN.

The Weatherman LP
Evidence
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ASIN: B000MGBR7C
Release Date: 2007-03-20

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I Know
Weather Report 1
Mr Slow Flow
Let Yourself Go
Down In New York City
A Moment In Time
Look For The Evidence (Interlude)
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Perfect Storm
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NC To CA
Evidence Is Everything
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Believe In Me
Born In L.A.
Weather Report 3
I Still Love You

Customer Reviews:

The Weatherman LP.......2007-07-06

I have heard the best tracks on Hip Hop websites, but aftering buying the album I saw the up and downs in this effort. He comes with interesting flows on most tracks, but some of the beats are not worth mentioning. I also think the hooks could of been better considering who he is known for being with. I think this album is worth the money you will spend, but you must listen to this with an open mind!

Evidence the rapper/producer.......2007-07-05

Evidence is an L.A.-born rapper from the rap group, Dilated Peoples, who are known for their top-notch rap beats and down-to-earth lyrics. Evidence is known for his slow-flow rapping as well as being a respected producer who has made beats for Dilated as well as other artists such as Defari and Planet Asia.

With his solo debut, The Weatherman LP, EV/Evidence/Mr. Slow Flow/The Weatherman is able to show off a lot of his artistic creativity. This is probably because Dilated is no longer with Capitol Records. This album is now on ABB Records, which means that EV has more creative control over his music, which is a major reason why this album is worth at least a few listens.

The production done for this album is top notch, with long-time collaborator and friend, The Alchemist on boards for 5 of the tracks. The third track, Letyourselfgo, where he's a featured rapper along with Phonte, has a tight beat that'll definately grab your attention. On Chase the Clouds Away, The Alchemist samples again and produces the only sunny song on the album. The beat is steady while Alchemist, again, chops it up.
Sid Roams, the team of Joey Chavez (also a long time collaborator and friend) and Tavish Graham also help out with 3 of the tracks. These tracks use a very low end bass, and adds to the rainy forecast effect that the album has. Rakaa of Dilated raps on the Sid Roam produced "Perfect Storm" and DJ Babu produces 2 of them, so as you can see, the Dilated family is here. Other producers here are Jake One, DJ Khalil, and, o yea, The Weatherman himself.

This album is a very personal one, which deals with many aspects of Ev's life and career, such as where he grew up (LA), where he enjoys visiting (NY), and how he deals with pleasure and pain. The death of his mother is a constant theme throughout the album, hence why the majority of it has a rainy theme to it. He's also out to prove that it isn't always sunny in Southern Cali.

Guest appearances include Defari, Planet Asia, Slug, Big Pooh, Joe Scudda, and Madchild.

As far as his rapping goes, it hasn't improved much, but he's already a decent rapper.

Conclusion: If you're a Dilated fan, you'd be better off just buying it. If not, it is still worth a listen. It might be the sleeper of the year.

Pruduction: 5/5
Lyrics: 4/5
Rapping: 4/5
Overall: 4.5 stars (not an average)

The Weatherman LP.......2007-07-04

Hot beats, but his flow is near average, his guest stars kills it though. It still a good album.

Stellar.......2007-04-21

I initially wanted to give this a 4.5. Classic? No. But it's damn close. Give a damn what anyone says. I will say, everyone is entitled to there opinion. But give props where it's due. This album is strong. Lyrically, Production and even track order. It doesn't really have any track that I skip. So, once again, give it a shot. But do be advised, don't jump into this if you haven't listened to Evidence or Dilated prior to this release.

Very stormy forcast with bright spots from THE WEATHERMAN........2007-04-12

I really wanted to listen to this several times before I commented on it with a fair opinion. I wanted to love this album and dismiss the negative reviews that I'd read in magazines+on Amazon. The horrible truth is that there is alot of elements that are accurate in these reports. (1)Ev's flow has fallen off, no other way of saying it (any doubters listen to the 1st 2 Dilated albums then peep this right after them, hey presto), (2)Production is so similar it makes the album sound so bland. One very valid point that most of the reviews state is that Ev slowflows the album to death and thats so true. He just doesnt mix it up enough to engage the listener enough. God knows, as he states himself alot on the album, we waited long enough for the solo album so he really should've brought nothing but his "A" game to the table. With all that being said, there is simply no denying that Evidence is a ridiculously gifted lyricist+producer so when he gets it right on the album its brilliant. There are a fair amount of tracks where this happens such as "I Know", "Down in New York City", "Moment in Time" feat.Planet Asia, "All Said & Done", "Perfect Storm" feat.Rakaa, "Chase the Clouds Away", "Evidence Is Everywhere", "Line of Scrimmage" feat.Slug and "Born in LA" feat.Chace Infinite+Sick Jacken. The rest are either weak efforts from Ev or just straight boring, apart from the finale "I Still Love You" where you can feel the pain in Ev's voice when he's rapping about his mom's passing. An unusual ending for an album but a nice side of an mc that you dont really get to hear within his normal dilated restraints. Its honestly not as bad as some have said but its also nowhere as good as it shouldve been. Probably wont be put in heavy rotation, no matter how much of a Dilated fan.

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ESSENTIAL Sun Ra
Some Truly Great 20th Century Music: Too Good To Ignore
Otherworldly
I can't believe nobody's reviewed this CD before!

The Magic City
Sun Ra
Manufacturer: Evidence
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000014KK
Release Date: 1993-11-25

Tracks:

The Magic City
The Shadow World
Abstract Eye
Abstract 'I'

Amazon.com

By the mid-1960s, bandleader and composer Sun Ra was delving deeply into extended, improvisation-heavy suites like The Magic City. Reckoned to be a tribute to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, this long, circuitous piece comes in two different takes on the CD reissue, and both takes are rambunctiously keeled on Ra's core band members, tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, who each offer scouring, ear-pinning interludes. Even so, the music here is huge, with sprawling collective improvisatons that burst with wholehearted high energy, suggesting a latent power that Sun Ra often channeled through both his own intricate scores and reams of cover tunes elsewhere in his several decades as jazz's chief outer-space renegade. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

ESSENTIAL Sun Ra.......2003-01-19

This (IMHO) is one of the finest releases from Sun Ra and the Arkestra. Accessable to the neophyte and satisfying to those familiar with Ra's music. Strong composition and execution. RECOMMENDED!

Some Truly Great 20th Century Music: Too Good To Ignore.......2001-11-15

I'm not going to compare "Magic City" to other jazz albums of the 60's, because it deserves a wider audience than only Sun Ra fans or free jazz afficionados. This album is distinct and amazing even in Sun Ra's eccentric ouevre, and it is without peer. If you appreciate the myriad attempts of 20th Century composers to reach the musical outer limits, such as those of Webern, Berg, Stravinsky, Varese, Bartok, Messiaen, Boulez, Zappa, etc., this is an album you will want to hear. Its textures, sonorities, and extremes of mood, from humor to terror and dread, put it in the august company of every musician who has put a soundtrack to consciousness and creation, to science and synthesis, to form generating itself in pure music. Get it!

Otherworldly.......1999-12-28

This is not the place to start in avant garde jazz. In fact, I suspect that plenty of perfectly reasonable, open-minded jazz fans will never get into this album. Unlike more accessible albums in the genre (Eric Dolphy's _Out to Lunch_, Ornette Coleman's early albums, John Coltrane's recordings between '61-'65) there's not much for most listeners to touch base with here. Harmony, rhythm, and melody are fleeting; the second half of the epic title track, which features extremely discordant horn blowing, will scare off 99% of the reasonable people.

If you're not completely scared off by this, I strongly recommend buying this album; the title suite is an incredibly intense collective improvisation: Sun Ra plays his eerie clavioline while Marshall Allen manically toots his piccolo and Ronnie Boykins does some killer bowing. Finally the rest of the band joins in to what may be some of the most intense and challenging fifteen minutes ever recorded. It truly is from outer space. The second half of the CD is full of shorter pieces that aren't quite as mind blowing but are still remarkable.

Get it if you dare.

I can't believe nobody's reviewed this CD before!.......1999-12-18

This CD is amazing and while I see 13 reviews for Eric Dolphy's "Out to Lunch," I see no reviews for this cd. This seems to show that people just buy those other albums because they're considered so good (and controversial), but never bothered to delve deep into the vein of free jazz, and this album is one of the greatest in that vein. Sounding harsh at times, this album ebbs and flows like no other. The continuously playing clavioline gives the album a constant theme of eerie unknown, like space, or another world. Yet it always manages to come back to sounding earthly. While Eric Dolphy was amazing and monumental in the same area, he never seemed to have the drive that Sun Ra did, who constantly made his musicians rehearse. This album is amazing and I highly recommend buying it for anyone who seriously listens to jazz, or any kind of music (if you want to have a better life, listen to a wide variety of music, that way you find out what you like.) The Magic City engulfs you and causes you to see things you wouldn't normally see. The songs not only are monumental in their sound, but monumental in their ability to represent visual themes, such as outer space and "the Magic City" itself, Birmingham Alabama. Listen to this CD at your local store, then buy it if you like it.

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one of sun ra's best
Swinging Sun Ra from the fourth moon of Saturn
Six stars for this one
Music as Colorful as the Cover Art
The Hottest Cool on the Planet

Super-Sonic Jazz
Sun Ra
Manufacturer: Evidence
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ASIN: B0000014J3
Release Date: 1992-02-06

Tracks:

India
Sunology
Advice To Medics
Super Blonde
Soft Talk
Sunology Part II
Kingdom Of Not
Portrait Of The Living Sky
Blues At Midnight
El Is A Sound Of Joy
Springtime In Chicago
Medicine For A Nightmare

Customer Reviews:

one of sun ra's best.......2006-09-22

buyer beware: there are 2 types of sun ra recordings. 1. great colorful big band music featuring the great saxophone work of john gilmore. (which is the category super-sonic jazz certainly falls into). and 2. experimental free-form jazz. i, personally, cannot stand the pretentious free-form stuff, but when the sun ra outfit is focused on compositions (as they are on this cd) they make jazz about as good to listen to as anybody. this is a perfect cd to introduce yourself to the best kind of sun ra. yes, sir.

Swinging Sun Ra from the fourth moon of Saturn.......2005-04-24

Super-Sonic Jazz is not nearly as avantgarde as Suns albums became starting in the early sixties, rather this album documents Sun's earlier more traditional work. Those of you who didn't know that the master of big band free jazz could swing and play the blues you should check this stuff out. I love Sun Ra's more demanding and avantgarde material from the sixties, seventies and eighties, but this album is very cool. You can tell Sun's fancy is just begining to take flight in that he's starting to add different rhythms and instrumentation and more exotic harmony to his repetoire. The arrangements and compositions are just starting to get "out." For instance the album opener India is a bit of exotica played on electric piano. Many of the tunes use tympani and odd melody lines such as the stunning El Is The Sound Of Joy. Other tunes sound like Charles Mingus of the period but with an odd harmonic sensibility. Ra's piano recalls Thelonius Monk in his use of space and occasionally a tiny bit of Sun's Cecil Taylor-like style pokes through. But in general he swings and solos in a more traditional though harmonically advanced way. The playing by his side men is top notch. Featured are John Gilmore, Pat Patrick and Julian Priester. Super Sonic Jazz is just a really enjoyable listen of the beginnings of one of jazz's most out-there and intriguing composers. Its melodic, exotic and swinging. As a bonus it's well recorded.

Six stars for this one.......2002-12-18

Recently a friend asked why most of the reviews I have posted have five stars. I pointed out that the main reason is that the CDs I have reviewed are all ones that I own, and that I research very carefully before I buy anything.

The few that I give lower ratings to are usually impulse buys based on a single recommendation that have disappointed me when they clearly don't stand up to repeated listening.

Let's face it, if you own more than two or three albums by the same artist, some of them will hardly ever get played, so it is well worth while to make sure that you buy the very best work of the artists you like.

For me a top rated (five star) album has to be one that is consistently of the highest standard. It is no good if there are one or two great tracks and the rest is dross. A top rated album has to be one that bears repeated listening without getting tired of it, and it has to sound good and be well recorded. It has to be the best work of the artist in question, and it has to be excellent music in its own right.

Now what does this have to do with Sun Ra and Supersonic Jazz. Just that Sun Ra is the exception that proves the rule, in that I have several of his albums including this one. Listening to this you just forget that it is music, as Sun Ra's remarkable rhythmic and harmonic virtuosity takes you out of yourself on a journey to Eternity, or maybe it is just Saturn.

Anyway, the point is that this music is so good that attempts to describe it just lead you into nonsensical babble. Better just to buy it and hear it for yourself.

Six stars.

Music as Colorful as the Cover Art.......2000-10-23

The tonal colors just fly out of the music. An underheard jazz masterpiece. This is a great starting point into Ra's music, and a wonderful, deep, varied album. Discographers claim this was recorded in 1956, but it's hard to believe that. The music is absolutely timeless.

Great composition, great imaginative arrangement of those themes across a wide tonal pallette, great playing, and a mastering job that presents the music in all its glory.

The Hottest Cool on the Planet.......1999-12-24

Super Sonic Jazz is one of Sun Ra's many recordings recently released on the small label Saturn. Historically preceding his official debut with Sun Song on the Tel-Larc label, these songs amply demonstrate that by the late 1950s Sun Ra was charting new territory with his famed "orkestra."

On Super Sonic Jazz Ra divides his time equally between electric and acoustic pianos, creating aural tapestries that sound as fresh today as they did in 1958. Witness Advice to Medics, a free-form improvisation for electric piano. Here, Ra's harmonics are as complex and developed as anything done fifteen years on by Weather Report or Return to Forever. Ra extracts a suprising dynamic range from the electric piano,which even today is regarded an inferior instrument to its acoustic father.

His songwriting skills are in full-force with the after-hours, drunken romance of Sunology, the hipster's Kingdom of Not, and a breakneck Superblonde--the hottest cool track on the record. In fact, in terms of songwriting and performance, the pace never lags. The band sound unbelievably tight, especially in view of its considerable size.

Tracks:

Mu
Lemuria
Yucatan (Saturn version)
Yucatan (Impulse version)
Bimini
Atlantis

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One of the key but underappreciated episodes in avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra's Atlantis sounds far out even today. Rather than a full-on assault on the senses, Atlantis is an exercise in build-up, with long, almost forlorn passages of Ra on electric keyboards setting a vast echo chamber for his Arkestra to spring forth within. Captured during one of the most adventurous periods for Sun Ra, *Atlantis* features the orchestral perfection of the best big bands of the century-and then proceeds towards mutirhythmic explosions of intensity, all of it couched in Sun Ra's mixture of interglactic mysticism and heaping doses of experiments in tone, tempo, and texture. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

I hate to say this but...........2006-04-28

...I think alot of people give this album too much credit. Sometimes you cannot heap lavish praise upon something simply because it is different, and breaks the mold of preconcieved notions formerly held of any particular genre. At this, Sun Ra excells brilliantly, rewriting what could be recorded for a jazz label at an early historical date like no one who has come before or since. That however does not merit placing this album up on a pedestal, for we must detatch the significance the album played in the evolution of avant garde jazz from the actual contents of the disc. For the most part I find the playing on this disc to be extremely over-indulgent and pretentious. Yes, there are some facinating moments where everything clicks, particularly when the creative use of perrcussion is employed to organize so much of that sloppy noise that Ra was putting out. The production is also extremely low quality and I feel that this does nothing to compliment the material. Basically, aside from a few hints that clue in the listener as to the pedigree of musicians being recorded, this could almost be passed over as a bunch of college jazz stoners in their garage improvising tributes to the Coltrane Interstellar Space free-jazz era meterial.

One of Sun Ra's finest albums.......2005-08-14

You think Pink Floyd is trippy and out there? Roger Waters and David Gilmour bow down to the great Sun Ra. That being said, Pink Floyd fans and stoners (often times one category) will love Sun Ra. In an age where Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were criticized for straying way too far away from Jazz's orgins, Sun Ra was already leaps and bounds ahead of them. Sun Ra is the apex of Avant-Garde and Experimental Jazz. To the untrained ear of those unfamiliar with Ra, this may sound uneven and sloppily composed. But you couldn't be anymore wrong. That's the genius of avant-garde art - it may seem poorly conceived on the surface, but underneath its thought out and pays close attention to details. This is one of Sun Ra's best albums, and a good place to go from after "Space Is the Place" or "Easy Listening For Intergalatic Travel" (the two starting points in your Ra enjoyment). The lack of production, minimalist and at times primative organ playing, and the very small band add to an atmosphere of the outer limits that any Space Age Pop artist couldn't dream to create. In other words, classic Ra. Not the greatest starting place to get acquainted with the genius, but a classic nonetheless.

Overated but good.......2004-06-07

Certainly there is some very good music on this album, but I've always thought this album was overated. The shorter pieces suffer from a lack of cohesiveness and ramble on a bit in a laid back, offhand way. They don't really go anywhere. The long centerpiece composition "Atlantis" is for the most part an organ workout for Ra and is by turns extremely aggressive, spacey and ultimately exhausting. There are some great passages but its just too long. I would recommend "The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Vol. 1", or the truly magical "Magic City" or "Other Planes of There" before Atlantis. Those albums all contain long compositions that are more rewarding. Heliocentric Worlds is comprised of smaller pieces that flow into one another creating in effect one long suite. I'm not saying Atlantis isn't worth having because it is, just that there are better Sun Ra albums out there that you might want to pick up first.

Mind-expanding, but This-worldly........2004-02-13

This album surely breaks the traditional molds of rhythm, form and tonality. For these reasons alone it is really worth a listen; however, this is not earth-shattering or out-of-this-world music. Free jazz had been around for about 6 years, and so this experiment had been done before. It is a great recording because the listener hears it against the backdrop of one's own preconceived ideas about how music should be. If I were to describe it, I would call it "Music from a Laudromat", because it harkens (especially rhythmically) to my experience sitting in a laudromat waiting for the clothes to get done in a dryer. As the dryer spins at a constant speed the clothes inside rattle against the sides of the dryer cylinder, snaps buttons and zippers clanging against the sides at an erratic non-linear pace. If one listens to it and places one's attention upon it, it becomes a very meditative and freeing experience.

Personal reflections on Ra.......2003-01-19

This was my first introduction to the Might of Ra. I wasn't quite sure what to make of it other than I liekd it. A few months later, I saw the Arkestra live and it all suddenly made sense. I was hooked and hooked deeply! No, this isn't the best starting place for Sun Ra (especially if you're coming from a 'traditional' jazz background) but for the adventuresome and openminded, this is great stuff.....SPACE IS THE PLACE