Len Boogsie Sharpe - Fresh Air

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe's second solo CD. Fresh sounds and original compositions.

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Track Listing

1. Blue Rose

2. Fresh Air

3. Sunday Morning Funk

4. Just Love Me

5. Groovin' in LA

6. First Born

7. My Beautiful You

8. Calypso Nights

9. Moving Away

10. Taking It Easy

11. What's Up

12. Liming On The Corner

13. 38 Special - (Solo Interlude)

14. Small Talk - (Solo Interlude)

Review

In recent times we've engaged with composer/pannist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe mostly through his masterly arrangements for Phase II Pan Groove and other Panorama contenders. It's been a while since he's given us a solo recording, and we've been duly rewarded for our patience with Fresh Air.

Rare for a pan-jazz offering, the album does not include a single jazz standard or pop cover; Fresh Air is 100% Boogsie - an indication of the artist's immense talent and confidence. The prevailing mood is a cool, breezy Caribbean-jazz groove (Fresh Air, Taking It Easy), but there is calypso-funk here as well (Sunday Morning Funk, Calypso Nights), and, naturally, Boogsie's awesome wizardry on the tenor pan. Overlook the couple of over-slow, cloying moments - this may well be the perfect soundtrack to a cool Caribbean evening. (GP/eC)

See also:

Len Boogsie Sharpe - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Len Boogsie Sharpe - Boogsie's Golden Memories of Xmas