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Sick of wimpy jazz?
So are the members of CAB, and they're doing something about
it. Think of this quintet as music's answer to the Justice League,
each one endowed with superhero powers and sworn to bring
excitement back to the bandstand.
For CAB consists of guitar monster Tony MacAlpine, bass wizard
and Return To Forever alumnus Bunny Brunel, legendary British
organist Brian Auger, elegant and ingenious keyboard innovator
Patrice Rushen, and the force-of-nature, played-with-everybody,
unstoppable rhythm dynamo Dennis Chambers on drums --
each a giant on his or her own terms. Together, they are unlike
anything heard since the glory days of jazz-rock fusion...
Saving the
number title "3" for an upcoming live album, CAB4 is an
incendiary collision of rock, jazz & passion with blinding chops.
CAB is, in fact, something like what jazz might have become had
the torch not been dropped so soon after the fusion race had
begun. That long-gone sense of limitless possibilities that once
surrounded RTF, Weather Report, and the Mahavishnu
Orchestra traced back to Miles Davis and his crossover
experiments in the sixties. In its willingness to question
stereotypes, redefine improvisation, and push virtuosity to new
extremes, this music was akin to bebop; as the product of
exploration by the best players of the day, it represented the best
of jazz, period.
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