Artist: 
Melvin Jackson

Funky Skull

Vinyl
€37,99

Release date: 8 December 2023

Article Number: 505579000

On his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson - a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) - plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G-2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The result is soulful, psychedelic, and of course, funky – at once one of the grooviest and most avant-garde albums you’ll ever hear.

VERVE BY REQUEST SERIES: remastered, audiophile-quality 180-gram vinyl from Third Man Pressing/Detroit, gatefold sleeve.

Tracklist:

Funky Skull (1969)

A1. Funky Skull Parts 1 & 2
A2. Ma, She's Makin' Eyes At Me
A3. Bold And Black
A4. Dance Of The Dervish
A5. Everybody Loves My Baby
B1. Cold Duck Time Parts 1 & 2
B2. Say What
B3. Funky Doo
B4. Silver Cycles

Melvin Jackson: Acoustic Bass / Roscoe Mitchell: Saxophone, Flute / Tobie Wynn: Saxophone / Pete Cosey: Guitar / Phil Upchurch: Guitar, Bass / Jodie Christian: Piano, Organ /James Tatum: Tenor Saxophone / Byron Bowie: Saxophone, Flute / Bobby Pittman: Saxophone / Steve Galloway: Trombone / Donald Towns: Trumpet / Tom Hall: Trumpet / Lester Bowie: Trumpet, Flugelhorn / Leo Smith: Trumpet, Flugelhorn / The Sound Of Feeling: Vocals

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Format Album
Release Year 2023
Speed 33 RPM
Size 12"

Tracklist

  1. 1. Funky Skull
  2. 2. Ma, She's Makin' Eyes At Me
  3. 3. Bold And Black
  4. 4. Dance The Dervish
  5. 5. Everybody Loves My Baby