Funky Butt (album)

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Funky Butt
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Studio album by Arnett Cobb
Released 1981
Recorded January 22, 1980
Studio The Big Apple Studio, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length60:05CD release with additional tracks
Label Progressive
P-7054
Producer Gus P. Statiras
Arnett Cobb chronology
Live at Sandy's!
(1978)		Funky Butt
(1981)		 Arnett Cobb Live
(1982)

Funky Butt is an album by saxophonist Arnett Cobb which was recorded in 1980 and released on the Progressive label. [1] [2] The 2014 CD reissue included three additional alternate takes.

Arnett Cobb American jazz tenor saxophonist

Arnett Cleophus Cobb was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, sometimes known as the "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb wrote the words and music for the jazz standard "Smooth Sailing" (1951), which Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Decca on her album Lullabies of Birdland.

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated "Arnett Cobb, a tenor from the 1940s who fused together some of the most exciting aspects of swing and early R&B, is in typically exuberant form on this quartet set ... Cobb is warm on the ballads but the stomps are what make this record most memorable". [3]

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Track listing

  1. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) – 4:32
  2. "Satin Doll, (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer) – 5:56
  3. "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Carroll) – 4:09
  4. "Funky Butt" – 5:48
  5. "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:25
  6. "September in the Rain" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 5:53
  7. "Isfahan" (Strayhorn) – 6:10
  8. "Radium Springs Swings" (James Newton) – 4:46
  9. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" [Take 1] (Count Basie) – 4:27 Additional track on CD release
  10. "Funky Butt Blues" [Take 1] (Cobb) – 7:25 Additional track on CD release
  11. "I Got Rhythm" [Take 2] (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 4:34 Additional track on CD release

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

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Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzology: Progressive Records discography, accessed November 28, 2017
  2. ↑ Arnett Cobb catalog accessed November 28, 2017
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Arnett Cobb: Funky Butt – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
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