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Blackout & Stefon Harris
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Gone | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 6:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Christina | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 6:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Tanktified | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 6:58 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Shake It for Me | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 3:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Minor March | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 3:34 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | They Won’t Go (When I Go) | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 7:36 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 7 | The Afterthought | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 4:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | For You | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 6:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Blues for Denial | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 2:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Langston’s Lullaby | Stefon Harris & Blackout | 7:56 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - Urbanus | Blackout & Stefon Harris | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Items |
Recent Customer Reviews
great stuff
by gentllbenfresh fresh fressshhhh! and just a correction to the poster below that gave it two stars. He isn't using pitch correction where you sing and it slides your voice into notches digitally like T-Pain. Sounds like he's using a vocoder which is like a talk box for guitar where you mouth the syllables and play on a keyed instrument what melody you want. takes more skill and actually has feeling to it.
An important artist and a great album! You will not be disappointed.
by wcwjazzStefon Harris continues to produce great music and important artistic statements. This album is contemporary, complex, soulful, fun, and deeply rooted in black music tradition. It is simply wonderful music. From the hip arrangement of Gershwin's "Gone" to the playful elasticity of "Blues for Denial," Stefon & Blackout swing, stomp, and sway across a panoply of material that reflects the sounds THEY hear, the issues THEY confront, and the loves THEY have today.
It doesn't break with tradition as much as extend it for today's generation, much as every jazz master has done before. If it makes people my age (almost 50) or older angry, that might not be the worst thing. Bebop angered a lot of swing cats, "hard bop" was disliked by many beboppers, fusion really made folks angry, and free jazz was dismissed by a lot of people. Yet, jazz survived, absorbed, and expanded. Great musicians always, always reflect their times.
By the way, really listen to any one of Stefon's solos, whether over a vamp, a backbeat, or working through standard chord changes. He's killing and saying something compelling every time. Check out Marc's fine piano and keyboard work, Tank's subtle, yet passionate drumming, and that young Ben Williams on bass! Trust me, his fills on "Shake It For Me" have Ray Brown, OP, Percy Heath, Sam Jones, Milt Hinton, and a whoel lot of bass masters smiling and snappign their fingers. Finally, Casey is playing a vocoder on Buster Williams's modern classic "Christina," Stevie's "They Won't Go," among a few others and it works. His note choice is superb and he manages to convery a soulful joy that young audiences really respond to.
Make no mistake, Stefon has produced one of the best albums of the year and an important one for people who want jazz created by today's generation to reflect their experiences.
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by it's all good!!!this is my first time checking out stefon, man!!! why did I wait so long.
Top Albums and Songs by Blackout & Stefon Harris
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Gone | Urbanus | 6:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Nothing Personal | Evolution | 5:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Until | Evolution | 6:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | The Lost Ones | Evolution | 6:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | The Afterthought | Urbanus | 4:57 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
