Solar Music

Butcher Brown

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Paru le 06/10/2023 chez Concord Jazz
Artistes principaux : Butcher Brown
Genre : Jazz

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A year after the delightfully maximal Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (featuring Tennishu and R4ND4ZZO BIGB4ND) in 2022, the Richmond, Virginia-based Butcher Brown return with the 17-track Solar Music, a spacious, warm exploration of grooves in jazz, funk, hip-hop, dance music, neo-soul, and various combinations therein assisted by a bevy of guests.
Groove is the central focus of everything here. The brief opening interlude "Cozumel" stitches drum loops, samples, chorus vocals, and keyboards together in a blissed-out vamp before the entry of the darker, more dramatic "Espionage." While its two-chord vamp recalls the intro to pop song "Stormy," slamming snares, layered horns, and organ flow across the frame before guest Charlie Hunter delivers a truly Hendrixian guitar solo, elevating the proceedings to dramatic psych. (Keyboardist DJ Harrison and drummer Corey Fonville are also members of Hunter's and Kurt Elling's SuperBlue.) Genres shift in "I Can Say to You," an elegant neo-soul jam sung by guest Vanisha Gould aided by a rap from frontman/saxophonist Marcus Tenney. Rapper Jay Prince surfs the bumping snares and kick drums from Fonville's drum kit in "(MOVE) Ride" as brass and reeds punctuate the beat and rap. "Eye Never Knew" boasts the participation of hip-hop/soul/punk star Pink Siifu (Livingston Lemorie Matthew) and jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold. While Siifu's reedy, airy delivery whispers in the margins, Harrold's lilting post-bop trumpet solo adds a textured mercurial swing. Not that Butcher Brown need help. Check the bumping bassline funk in "No Way Around It" with Marcus Tenney adding a canny rap and chanted refrain. Saxophone sensation Braxton Cook joins the nocturnal, soul-hop ballad "DYKWYD" (Do You Know What You’re Doing)" adorning Tenney's slippery, emotional rap with classic R&B and a funk-tinged bass; a silvery electric guitar offers considerable evidence of BB's ability to meld genres seamlessly. Immediately following is "Happy Hourrr" (sic) a Latin-cum-bossa-tinged instrumental led by Tenney's swinging tenor and Fonville's hip-hop beats and breaks. The set's finest performance is BB's cover of Roy Ayers' classic "This Side of Sunshine." It retains the elegance and grace of the original and adds a pillowy, sweet, humid touch. The tripping synth lines meet while organ, shuffling drums, and a laid-back syncopated bassline frame a vocal chorus sweetly chanting the refrain as layers of tenor sax and brass float through the backdrop. "It Was Me" layers slamming hip-hop beats inside multi-chromatic jazz charts complete with winding horns and a fiery rap atop an escalating beat that adds Latin funk and samba beats to the mix. Closer "Around for a While" is a fleet, piano-driven number that touches on polished, smooth '80s jazz fusion à la Webster Lewis and Spyro Gyra. Despite its considerable musical achievement -- or perhaps because of it -- Solar Music is easily the most well-rounded offering from Butcher Brown yet. The band offers an aesthetically pleasing collection of songs with exceptional atmospheric vibes in a wide variety of sophisticated musical settings that showcase growth in composition and arrangement with an inspired performance.

© Thom Jurek /TiVo

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