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...texture and style that it's almost impossible to pin the group down. Machismo, the accompanying EP, provides perhaps a better picture of Gomez in a nutshell, with its dance-like title track, the darker ballad "Do's and Don't's" and "Touchin' Up," a track almost Caribbean in its coolness. But while there are some absolutely amazing songs on Hotline-such as "Wharf Me" and the first single, a cover of the Beatles' "Getting Better,"-the album as a whole is more for already established Gomez fans. A better starting point would be their second LP Liquid Skin...
...Every Sonny Rollins album contains the obligatory calypso number and this album opens with an original titled "Salvador." Though entertaining, this piece lacks some of the joyous swagger associated with Rollins' other Caribbean interpretations. Rollins digs marginally further into his improvisatory bag on the two other originals, the funk-infused "Did You See Harold Vick?" and the slow blues "Charles M." to greater effect. Just as in his live performances, the standout sideman on this album is pianist Stephen Scott. The vibrancy of Scott's solos safeguard the moderate pace of the album from becoming sluggish. His swinging, soulful contribution...
When Greenberg presented the idea, group leader Isiah Taylor, 50, rejected it. He thought the song was too Caribbean for the American charts. He was probably right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, up-tempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded Dogs, they explored beats more familiar to American audiences--throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with...
Baha Men have become the standard bearers for other Caribbean acts, like the Trinidadian band Machel Montano & Xtatic, that hope to invade the American charts. Taylor warns that to succeed in the U.S., they too have to be willing to "refine" their sound. But that's just show business. If island artists can stand a little assimilation, they may find that what started off as a "Woof! Woof!" could grow to a communal commercial roar...
...Baha Men have become the standard-bearers for other Caribbean acts, like the Trinidadian band Machel Montano & Xtatic, that hope to invade the American charts. Taylor warns that to succeed in the U.S., they too have to be willing to "refine" their sound. But that's just show business. If island artists can stand a little assimilation, they may find that what started off as a "Woof! Woof!" could grow to a communal commercial roar...