Track Listing

1. Night Splash
2. Cab
3. So There Is Love
4. Just Perfect
5. One for Stern
6. Watcher
7. Atamanashi
8. Boogie Me
9. Elastic Man
10. Bernard

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103243 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Featuring three of the most revered instrumentalists today, rock guitarist/keyboardist Tony Macalpine, basist Bunny Brunel (Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock) and drummer Dennis Chambers (Parliament, Funkadelic, Steely Dan) together on 10 tracks.2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Amazon.com
Guitarist/keyboardist Tony MacAlpine, known for chest-swelling rock-classical hybrids, has occasionally tinkered with jazz-rock elements on earlier releases. Here, he fully invests himself in a fusion trio that includes bassist Bunny Brunel (who owns credits with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock) and David Chambers (Parliament-Funkadelic). Along with being the album's featured instrumentalist, Brunel wrote seven of the disc's 10 tracks, with MacAlpine penning the final three. The results are attractive, if not always arresting. MacAlpine takes flight as a soloist only sporadically, most memorably when responding to his own meaty rock chops in the title track and during an elaborate run on the concluding selection, "Bernard." MacAlpine's output on keyboards surfaces almost as often as his riffing, lending a Return to Forever vibe to a package that shines more brightly when MacAlpine and Brunel give themselves room to cook (as on the Satriani-like "Boogie Me") rather than simmer. --Terry Wood

Customer Reviews

Get your own CAB!
Made in USA in 2000, Serial# TC-40072, Playing Time 52:09

I got this because of MacAlpine's solo albums and Dennis Chambers' contributions to some albums by John McLaughlin and Tom Coster.

I wasn't too sure was to expect musically, maybe something like Liquid Tension Experiment.

This albums contains some fabulous performances, a blend of 1/3 rock and 2/3 jazz. Tracks range from about 4 to 7 minutes, so there's room for development without getting free-form and lost in improvisations. Each performer demonstrates his talents, but without trying to bury the other musicians: more like an "exchange" or a 3-part conversation.

Interesting, and worth a careful listen; get your own CAB, this one's already taken!

cab
This is not smooth jazz. Thank goodness!!!! I went out on a limb in buying this. It was rated 5 stars in Bass Player magazine. It is. So much of the instrumental [stuff] today is mindless soloing with a drumulator and a sequencer, hats off to these three gents. It has a Return to Forever feel, only with a funky edge and great soloing. Dennis and Bunny are top notch, Tony holds his own too. If you are looking at Cab2, the new release, get this one. They lost their edge on the second album. Fusion still lives on this one.

stupid title, great CD
I bought this on Dennis Chambers name alone, having never heard either Brunel or Macalpine. A terrifying collection of inspired heavy fusion, the kind that melts ears. Brunel is stylistically all over the place from staccato Jaco-like lines to the heavy slap tone of 'Just Perfect', he is really a master player. Don't be scared off by Macalpine's rep as a shredder, he also contributes keyboard work to this disc. Dennis Chambers is a human drum machine, he's the best at what he does. A perfect CD for testing the limits of your home system.