Daevid Allen - Eat Me Baby I'm A Jelly Bean (1998)

Artista: Daevid Allen

Álbum: Eat Me Baby I'm A Jelly Bean
Año: 1998
Género: Jazz contemporáneo
Duración: 45:57
Nacionalidad: Australia / Inglaterra

Lista de Temas:
1. So What (Daevid Allen, Miles Davis)
2. Gold Top (Lionel Hampton, Ken Kynard)
3. I Can't Get Started (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke)
4. Slow Boat (Daevid Allen, Frank Loesser)
5. It Ain't Necessarily So (Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin)
6. My Funny Valentine (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
7. Au Privave (Charlie Parker)
8. St. Petersburg Cafe (Eugene Maslov)
9. Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke)

Alineación:
- Larry Steen / Bass
– Ndugu Chancler / Drums
– Eugene Maslov / Piano
– Daevid Allen / Vocals

Alberto nos comparte, en este homenaje a Alien Allen, el genio creativo de Gong y Soft Machine, indispensable en la creación de los que se llamó la escena Canterbury del rock progresivo, muy emparentado con el jazz (como podrán apreciar en este disco).

This album is recorded by 60- years old Australian beatnik and Gong founder Daevid Allen. He doesn't play guitar or other instruments there, just sings. And he sings jazz!
Musicians (including Gong fame sax player Didier Malherbe) play bop and cool jazz, and Daevid sings, mostly jazz standards, but one original composition as well. Some jazz standards have Allen's lyrics there!
Music is competent, but almost authentic be-bop, Allen has his characteristic voice timbre (even if ne isn't great jazz singer for sure). Main this recording's value is its atmosphere. Nostalgic, but with lite humour.
This album musically is no way connected with Canterbury, fusion or any form of progressive rock music form, but could be a pleasant memory for Daevid Allen as a great figure from late 60-s - early 70-s.

Slava Gliozeris

Y el disco es parte de nuestro homenaje al gran músico recientemente abandonado de este mundo, dentro de una serie de discos que vamos a publicar.