Funk Legend Maceo Parker Announces New Album |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 at 12:47pm |
With his 16th solo album
Parker’s signature punchy saxophone sound partners with New Orleans Funk
royalty to cook up a fresh selection of Soul and Funk classics as well
as Parker originals. Funk legend Maceo Parker is set to release his first new studio album in 8 years. Soul Food – Cooking with Maceo will be released on 26 June and will be the first album on the Mascot Label Group new imprint, The Funk Garage. It is almost impossible to separate which came first, Maceo or the funk. He has played with each and every leader of funk, starting with James Brown throughout the 1960s and beyond, then jumping aboard the Mothership Connection with Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as a long time collaboration with Prince from 1999. Parkers’s career as a band leader began in 1970, and since embarking on a second solo career in 1990 he has released a catalogue of stunningly evocative releases from Maceo and All The King’s Men Doing Their Own Thing (1972) all the way to 2012’s Soul Classics. This is not to mention working with titans of the music world such as Keith Richards, Bryan Ferry, Living Color, Dave Matthews Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction and De La Soul. He has also been sampled by hip hop icons including the Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac and Busta Rhymes. With his 16th solo album Parker’s signature punchy saxophone sound partners with New Orleans Funk royalty to cook up a fresh selection of Soul and Funk classics as well as Parker originals. The album was recorded at House of 1000hz, New Orleans, LA with Andrew “Goat” Gilchrist and produced by Eli Wolf (Norah Jones, Madlib, Al Green). Soul Food – Cooking with Maceo blends raw, old school funk with the flavours of the New Orleans school of music. Parker worked with Ivan Neville, Nikki Glaspie and Tony Hall, as well as a host of local musicians to record the songs. The funky flavour of the city weaves its way through the album as Maceo and the band take on iconic songs of the Mississippi masters such as Dr. John’s voodoo funk of “Right Place, Wrong Time,” The Meters “Just Kissed My Baby,” “Yes, We Can Can” recorded by Allen Toussaint as well as takes on Aretha Franklin’s “Rock Steady,” Prince’s “The Other Side of the Pillow” and Maceo’s long-time hero and Ray Charles Saxophonist, David “Fathead” Newman’s “Hard Times.” We also get funky workouts from Parker’s own back catalogue on “M A C E O” and “Cross The Track.”
The new release can be pre-ordered now digitally, on CD, or transparent orange vinyl – Soul Food – Cooking With Maceo |
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