Artist: Jean-Paul Bourelly with Archie Shepp & Henry Threadgill
Album: Boom Bop
Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Label: Jazz Magnet Records
Released: 2000
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Gumbe (07:26)
- New Afro Blu (09:50)
- Three Chambers Of Diop (10:51)
- Silent Rain (07:35)
- Root One (03:07)
- Invisible Indivisible (07:32)
- Kinetic Threadness (07:01)
- Brother Boom Bap (01:53)
- Tara (06:36)
- Griot Sunset (01:14)
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- Personnel:
- Reggie Washington - Bass (tracks: 2, 7 to 9)
- Big Royal Talamacus - Bass [Filtered Boom Bass] (tracks: 1 to 9)
- Slaka - Djembe (tracks: 1 to 3, 6 to 9)
- Slam T. Wig - Drums (tracks: 6)
- Jean-Paul Bourelly -Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Effects
- Samba Sock - Other [Boograboo] (tracks: 1 to 3, 6 to 9)
- Henry Threadgill - Saxophone [Alto] (tracks: 4, 7)
- Archie Shepp - Saxophone [Tenor] (tracks: 1, 2, 6)
- Abdourahmane Diop - Vocals, Drums (tracks: 1 to 3, 6 to 10)
After more than a decade of providing some of the most riveting post-Hendrix guitar arsenals this side of Eddie Hazel, and a multifaceted career that includes working with the likes of Miles Davis, Cassandra Wilson, Muhal Richard Abrams and Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Jean-Paul Bourelly is still roundly ignored in jazz-critic polls.
Nevertheless, not being in the spotlight has its advantages, such as being able to follow one's creative spirit. Witness Bourelly's latest album, Boom Bop, where he collaborates with a handful of Senegalese percussionists as well as iconic saxophonists Henry Threadgill and Archie Shepp, resulting in a visceral album of Afro-psychedelia that's as passionate as it is probing.
Bourelly's once staccato, Hendrix-inflected vocals give way to more of an elongated Afro-Arabian phrasing on Boom Bop, but Bourelly's deep delta-blues roots are firmly intact as evidenced by the eerie "New Afro Blu" in which Bourelly sings of a deceitful lover alongside Diop's fervid, chant-like singing. Other blues-drenched Afro-psychedelic charms include the percussive instrumental "Kinetic Threadness," which features some fine alto work from Threadgill, the dreamy "Tara" and the thumping "Silent Rain."
While it's far-fetched that Boom Bop will make Bourelly a household name in the U.S, it will undoubtedly solidify his credentials as one of the most inventive and under-recognized guitarists of our time.
By John Murph