Track Listing

1. Tchfunkta
2. Common Ground
3. Green Chimneys
4. Blues for Ben - Ben Ellman, Charlie Hunter, Craig Klein, Stanton Moore, Matt Perrine, Michael Ray, Skerik
5. Kooks on Parade - Ben Ellman, Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Matt Perrine, Skerik
6. Nalgas - Ben Ellman, Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Matt Perrine, Skerik
7. Witch Doctor
8. Boogaloo Boogie
9. Nobodys Blues - Stanton Moore, Matt Perrine, Brent Rose, Brian Seeger
10. Stanton Hits the Bottle - Stanton Moore, Matt Perrine, Brent Rose, Brian Seeger
11. Farmstead Antiques
12. Angel Nemali
13. Honey Island - Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Brent Rose, Brian Seeger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71844 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
New Orleans funk with serious jazz chops and a superbad attitude! Galactic drummer Stanton Moore cuts loose on his first solo album with special guests Charlie Hunter, Skerik, Ben Ellman and others.

Amazon.com
New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore can be found providing the backbeat for the groovy Galactic or the New Orleans Klezmer Allstars. While much has been made of Moore's ability to lay down the funk, All Kooked Out! also touches New Orleans second-line marches and a bit of postbop. Moore is mostly joined by guitarist Charlie Hunter and saxophonist Skerik (Tuatara, Critters Buggin') for a groovy studio session that leaves plenty of room for each to shine. Hunter and his eight-string guitar in particular step to the forefront--playing heads and laying a nice melodic veneer over the syncopated rhythms. When it's time to tear the roof off, Moore brings in extra New Orleans-style horns, giving some songs a good-time Dirty Dozen Brass Band feel. Nicely paced, varied, and played, All Kooked Out! is a fine debut by Moore, a gifted musician with a flair for strong, syncopated beats. --Tad Hendrickson

Alex Oliver, Offbeat Magazine
" All Kooked Out can knock you down, scratching your head at the raw talent of the players, then make you want to jump up and dance -- cerebral then physical, on progressive tracks.

Customer Reviews

Almost great- maybe already there.
Sorry for the somewhat cryptic title. I may not have listened to this album enough to really appreciate it. I think I also have somewhat different standards than most of the reviewers. I have been listening to soul jazz bands since the mid-sixties. My comparisons are to some of the great Blue Note albums or to albums like Sparkplug by Melvin Sparks or some of Grant Green's great stuff. By those standards most of the music that I have heard lately doesn't really cut it. (Although to be fair, the recent releases by Mr. Sparks haven't seemed that good either.) But this album has some damn fine music on it. Mr. Moore is a wonderful funk and jazz drummer; always on the beat and always filling it in behind the band. I would love to see him live. I have this theory that God is a drummer (Jesus is definetly a tenor player). God as a combination of Moore, Omar Hakim, Jack DeJohnette and Elvin Jones. But I digress. Skerik is great on this album. Very soulful with a nice fat tenor sound and ready and able to take the harmony outside at the drop of a beat. This is the best I have heard from Charlie Hunter although I still think he has a ways to go before he is as good as Sparks, Upchurch, or Green at their best. But I guess the really cool thing about this album for me is that the comparisons are somewhat irrelevant. While they love where the music has come from these guys are taking it to new places. At times on this album they get it all together (I love the collective jam towards the end of Blues for Ben). Even when they sound a little weak (I swear there is an organ player on the album although if there is he or she is uncredited so probably it is one of the guitarists doing something dumb electronically. In any case the organ sound is one of my problems with the album-it just isn't fat enough for this kind of music)they still sound much better than anything of this type I have heard of late. I guess in the final analysis if it makes you feel good and like you wanna dance in spite of being an old white guy than it's all good. If you love this kind of music I also recommend that you get Melvin Sparks'contribution to the Legends of Acid Jazz series.

Incredibly Good
I love Galactic and the jazz/funk revival that they've led along with the Greyboy Allstars and Medeski Martin & Wood. This is without a doubt the best album to come out of that genre that I have ever heard. Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter and Skerik have composed one of the most dynamic and fun jazz albums in recent memory. This is not the sound of a stuffy jazz club; this is the sound of a sweaty dance floor where the audience is cheering wildly and the alcohol is flowing freely. Simply put, the album's amazing. If you like any of the above bands or older Headhunters-type jazz fusion, buy this right now. You will not take it out of your cd player for months.

A Funky treat for anyone!
I just got this album a couple of weeks ago and the first time I put it on, I was floored by the funky rhythms that fill this disc. Accompanied superbly by Charlie Hunter on the 8-string guitar and Skerrit on sax, Stanton Moore has definitely crafted one of the sickest albums around. In particular, track #3, Green Chimneys by Monk is a personal favorite on this album.