Artist: Bobby McFerrin
Album: Medicine Music
Genre: Vocal Jazz, A Capella
Label: EMI USA
Released: 1990
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Medicine Man (04:25)
- Baby (02:56)
- Yes, You (03:11)
- The Garden (03:28)
- Common Threads (04:18)
- Sweet In The Mornin' (feat. Voicestra) (04:49)
- Discipline (feat. Robert McFerrin, Sr. & Voicestra) (04:40)
- He Ran All The Way (04:01)
- Angry GIMA (03:42)
- The Train (06:14)
- Soma So De La De Sase (04:00)
- The 23rd Psalm (03:06)
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- Personnel:
- Bobby McFerrin - vocals
Guests: - Robert McFerrin, Sr. - vocals
- Voicestra - vocals
- Lyle Mays - Keyboards
- Juan Escovedo - Percussion
- Pete Escovedo - Percussion
After having a surprise hit in "Don't Worry, Be Happy" in 1988, singer Bobby McFerrin seemed to run away from success in embarrassment. He did not record as a leader for two years, and many of his subsequent projects were more in classical music than in jazz or pop. He formed the a cappella Voicestra, which seemed to miss the point, which is that he could do all the voices himself without overdubbing. This well-meaning CD, which uses the Voicestra on a few cuts plus his father, opera singer Robert McFerrin, Sr., on "Discipline," suffers from consistently dull material; none of the songs or performances are the least bit memorable. Clearly McFerrin's career was drifting at this point and, even by the late '90s, had not regained its momentum in the jazz world. In the case of Bobby McFerrin, more has always been less, and this CD has a bit too much waste.
Review by Scott Yanow