Alphonse Mouzon Virtue [The Cutting Edge of Jazz] Japan Music CD

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Contents Format: CD Specifications: Jewel case Specifications 2: Remastered original recording Obi: Yes Liner notes: Yes A fusion masterpiece featuring Gary Bartz and incredible drumming! This MPS album is by Alphonse Muzon, a popular drummer who was active in Weather Report and Larry Coryell's Eleventh House and was in high demand in the crossover/jazz fusion scene. This album, also famous as a sampling source, is popular in the rare groove scene, with tracks like "MASTER FUNK" which is devoted to the funk sound of the time. Performer credits: Alphonse Mouzon (ds, perc, vo, key, comp), Gary Bartz (as, ss), Welton Jitz (elb), Stu Goldberg (key) [TRACKLIST] 01. Master Funk 02. Baker's Daughter 03. Come Into My Life 04. Nyctophobia 05. Virtue 06. Poobli 07. The Mouzon Drum Suite: Jazz-Rock-Improvisation 08. The Mouzon Drum Suite: Out Of The Desert 09. The Mouzon Drum Suite: Colors Of Africa (The Mouzon Drum Suite: Colors of Africa) 10. The Mouzon Drum Suite: Total Swing (The Mouzon Drum Suite: Total Swing) Jazz Frontline MPS Season 2 Season 1 New Discovery Encounter ~Deconstruction of Jazz by Club Culture~ What is Hip Hop? Hip Hop is a music and culture that respects all genres of popular music from the past, while simultaneously creating new music by freely or arbitrarily reusing them. In other words, it is not destruction but regeneration, discovery and creation. It all starts from here. This is a historical invention born in the 1980s and 90s that unconsciously resonated with the re-evaluation of ideas such as Jacques Derrida's "deconstruction" in France in the 1960s and Michel Foucault's "Archaeology of Knowledge" = "postmodernism". 90s club culture was a counter to "disco as an entertainment device" by the generation that was baptized by hip hop, and at the same time, it was a dissemination and creation of new music and culture. With the emergence of Giles Peterson, born in France and raised in London, disco DJs, who had previously been mere entertainers, transformed into new musical "expressers": "club DJs" and "record labels." Popular music, which had previously been merely consumer goods, became a treasure trove of cultural assets. This is what gave rise to British-born "Acid Jazz" and "Talkin' Loud." Around the same time, a new movement also began in Japan. Toru Hashimoto's independent book "Suburbia Suite," which appeared in 1992 with great surprise and impact, became even more dynamic in 1994 as the CD compilation series "Free Soul." It is widely known that Toru Hashimoto was the editor of the magazine "Brutus." This is not unrelated to the fact that Toshikazu Kanazawa of the "Light Mellow" series began his career as a music writer after editing and publishing a mini-magazine. Editors are "creators" who weave together new "knowledge" while repeatedly rediscovering "knowledge" within the continuity of the past. The fact that DJs and compilers are expressive through music is synonymous with the fact that editors are expressive through words. Many generations in Japan were greatly influenced by the passionate trends in music and culture that emerged in the 90s, such as club culture and postmodernism, which were based on a "re-evaluation" and "rediscovery" perspective, in other words, a "deconstruction" perspective. These are the Giles Peterson children, and the legacy continues to be passed down as followers of Toru Hashimoto. "JAZZ FRONT LINE" is a compilation series that offers a 21st-century "re-evaluation" and "reconstruction" of hip-hop and club culture from the unique perspective of the 90s generation, aimed at themselves and the current new generation. At the same time, it is a new "rediscovery" series that pays deep respect to the "re-evaluation movement" of the 1990s. From [JAZZ FRONT LINE] with Love. About MPS: MPS's headquarters, Black Forest, is located in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in former West Germany. Baden-W?rttemberg is an industrial city where the Mercedes-Benz Group and Porsche have their headquarters. MOTOWN has an atmosphere that somehow resonates with Detroit and CHESS Records in Chicago, one of America's leading industrial cities. This is probably not unrelated to MPS's unique "high sound quality." That's just how cities are. After World War II, Germany, like Japan, was under Allied rule and divided into East and West Germany. West Germany, in particular, was under the divided rule of the US, UK, and France, and it only gained independence as a country in 1955, considerably later than Japan. This explains why MPS (SABA) worked extensively on jazz, especially jazz by American artists. West Germany had many US military bases, and even at the end of the Berlin Wall in 1989, there were 47 major bases alone. It is said that approximately 250,000 US soldiers were stationed there, and more than 500 military facilities were located throughout West Germany. In Japan, the largest number of US soldiers stationed is around 30,000 in Okinawa. In other words, after the war, West Germany was under the strong influence of the United States in all aspects of politics, economy, culture, and human exchange, just like Japan, or even more so. In the late 1960s, young people and artists in West Germany were strongly influenced by thinkers known as the Frankfurt School (critical theory). Herbert Marcuse's works, particularly "The One-Dimensional Man" and "An Attempt at Liberation," had a profound impact not only on his own country but also on the May 1968 revolution in neighboring France and the student movement in Japan. Marcuse, who had fled the Nazis to the United States, later returned to his homeland, influencing many West German thinkers, politicians, young people, entertainers, and artists. The depth of the multi-layered historical correlation between the United States and West Germany, including not only these individual events but also the processes leading up to them, can be glimpsed, even to a small extent, from 21st-century Japan. MPS is not a label started as a hobby by German jazz enthusiasts. It is densely packed music from an "era of upheaval and transformation," filled with love, hatred, business, politics, respect, and every conceivable emotion between West Germany and the United States. There you'll find Oscar Peterson's dazzling, virtuosic jazz, jazz-rock and crossover, experimental progressive and free jazz, fusion, beautiful jazz harmonies, soul jazz, and avant-garde jazz blending multinational nomad and ethnic influences?each one meticulously, orderly, and brilliantly shining. All of this is MPS jazz. Media reviews and more: This MPS album is by Alphonse Mouzon, a popular drummer who was active in Weather Report and Larry Coryell's Eleventh House and was in high demand in the crossover/jazz fusion scene. This album, also famous as a sampling source, is popular in the rare groove scene, with tracks like "MASTER FUNK" leaning towards the funk sound of the time. (C)RS