Vinyl Wednesday: Maceo Parker - Life On Planet Groove

Surprise, surprise, here it is: Susanne Alt - Royalty For Real recorded live at Pop & Jazz Hilversum on October 19th, 2024. Thank you Co de Koet, Marc Broer, Ziva Sound and Buma Cultuur for making this possible. Very happy with the way it sounds! Compliments for the engineers! The band line up: Susanne Alt (sax), Hans de Wild (keys), Thomas Pol (bass), Cyril Directie (drums) and Helene Jank (percussion).Are you familiar with Concertzender? Celebrating 40 years this year, being unique in its programming of classical, jazz, world, contemporary music of all kinds. Discover new and old, listen to music as you wish, choosing between the real time radio programming and the theme channels.. Also listen to World Of Jazz, the jazz channel of Concertzender. Enjoy!You can become a vriend of the radio station and contribute which is very welcome, since this station is only partly funded and wouldn't be possible without donations. - Just like the album from last week, this is one of my favourite albums in the 90's and on of my favourite live albums of all times.. I had it - and still have it - on cassette tape... I don't know how many hours in total we danced to it on music student house parties.. very often.i didn't realize at the time that there was no electric bass player but it was Larry Goldings all by himself, together with the brilliant drumming of Kenwood Dennard and the funky guitar of Rodney Jones. Maceo Parker's sound: It's strong, it's raw, it's hypnotic, it's always a bit sharp, it's on the 1 and all the way around it. He's a drummer on a horn, (no surprise that his brother Melvin Parker is one of the best drummers). This album and certainly this version of Shake everything you've got contributed to my wish of becoming a professional saxophone player. Drive people crazy with a saxophone... That's why I love Maceo Parker's playing so much. Combine this with the jazzy sound of Pee Wee Ellis and the jazzy funky trombone of the one and only Fred Wesley... there you go!Read more about Maceo Parker on Wikipedia and if you never saw him live, check his website and do it, go to a concert.