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David Axelrod - Heavy Axe (1974/1998) [Fusion, Jazz-Funk]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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David Axelrod - Heavy Axe (1974/1998) [Fusion, Jazz-Funk]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: David Axelrod
Album: Heavy Axe
Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Funk
Label: BGP Records
Released: 1974/1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Get Up Off Your Knees 3:38
  2. Cast Your Fate to the Wind 3:27
  3. You're So Vain 4:20
  4. My Family 4:45
  5. Mucho Chupar 3:13
  6. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing 3:45
  7. It Ain't for You 4:25
  8. Everything Counts 6:54

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    Personnel:
  • Arranged By, Conductor – David Axelrod
  • Cello – Nat Gershman, Walter Rower
  • Concertmaster, Violin [Featuring] – Jack Shulman
  • Congas – King Errisson
  • Drums – Roy McCurdy
  • Guitar – Billy Fender, Don Peake, Johnny Guitar Watson
  • Keyboards, Synthesizer – George Duke
  • Producer – Cannonball Adderley
  • Saxophone, Flute – Jackie Kelso, Jay Migliori, William Green
  • Synthesizer [Moog] – Rudy Copeland
  • Trombone – Dick Hyde, George Bohanon
  • Trumpet – Allen De Rienzo, Snookey Young, Oscar Brashear
  • Viola – Gary Nuttycombe, William Hymanson
  • Violin – Alexander Neiman, Henry Roth, Jerome Reisler
  • Vocals – Billie Barnum, Gwen Owens, Olga James, Stephanie Spruill

Axelrod's reputation underwent an extraordinary reassessment in the late '90s, with his instrumental albums and work as an arranger coming to be considered innovative and au courant by some tastemakers. Even taking into account that this is just one of many records bearing the Axelrod imprint, one has to wonder if the rehabilitation is in fact unwarranted inflation. This is run-of-the-mill, largely instrumental soul-jazz-funk, split between Axelrod originals and covers of tunes by Stevie Wonder, Carly Simon, Vince Guaraldi, and Cannonball Adderley. It would be eminently suitable for background soundtrack music for 1970s films and made for TV movies, and while some such efforts can be good, in this context, that is not meant as praise. Do you really want to hear a watery fusion cover of "You're So Vain," with Stephanie Spruill's straining soul vocals? You're welcome to it. Although about a couple dozen musicians (including Adderley and Gene Ammons) take part in the string- and horn-drenched arrangements, really these aren't that creative. They sound more like quickly assembled, made-to-order filler music for video productions, the horns sometimes sounding rather like those of school marching bands, with touches of early-'70s-style electric keyboards and wah-wahing funk-rock guitars. There's an orgiastic wordless female vocal on "Mucho Chupar," if that's what you like. The entire album is contained on the Fantasy CD reissue The Axelrod Chronicles, which adds eight tracks from 1973-1974 that Axelrod produced and/or arranged on albums by Gene Ammons, Nat Adderley, Hampton Hawes, and Funk, Inc.

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