Chess Uptown Soul Various Artists (Chess)

£11.70

Genre:
Mod/Club
Label:
Kent
Format:
CD
Catalogue Id:
CDKEND 140

Also Chicago-based, the Chess group of labels included at various times Aristocrat, Argo and Cadet. Phil and Len Chess built up their label on the success of their roster of hard-hitting blues artists like Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, but they dabbled in many forms of music including soul. Kent Records' other release this month, Chess Uptown Soul, explores their 60s soul output. However, as the astute among you will have gathered from its title, this isn't an album of stompin' dance toons: no Landslide or In Orbit here. As compiler Ady Croasdell (What him again? Does this man ever sleep?) puts it, "Think sophisticated. Think subtle. Think Slick".

After the exhilarating Saturday night soul of the OKeh set, here's a 24-tracker ideal for a Sunday morning: snuggle down in your armchair, attempt to do the Telegraph crossword and let the soul waves lap comfortably against your feet. Sophisticated? Yes indeedy, check out Marlena Shaw's jazz-tinged slant on Go Away Little Boy. Subtle? Absolutely: Marvel at Spooner's Crowd as they wittily create a sound picture of a whole evening at a hip club in the 2 minutes and 9 seconds of Two In The Morning. Slick? Sho'nuff-.-gasp at The Radiants' inch-perfect harmonies on Ain't No Big Thing. This uptown festival includes such soul beats as Jan Bradley's charmingly naive Mama Didn't Lie, Etta James' assertive Pushover, the Knight Brothers' gospel-flavoured Temptation Bout To Get Me and Mitty Collier's affecting I Had A Talk With My Man. There's a touch of the blues from Johnny Nash and a touch of jazz from Ramsey Lewis. It all adds up to a soul-satisfying Sunday morning's listening. But wait: Jackie Ross' Jerk And Twine, one of the first batch of releases on the UK Chess label back in '65, has an irresistible finger snapping beat, and she's going on about good timing hips are rocking...the build-up to next Saturday night starts here! (Mike Atherton. Mike is a regular contributor to Echoes, Blues & Rhythm and Record Collector magazines)

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Side 1

  • 01 Preview The Entertainer - T Clarke

  • 02 Preview Love Ain't Nothin' - Johnny Nash

  • 03 Preview Jerk And Twine - Jackie Ross

  • 04 Preview Oh What A Feeling - James Phelps

  • 05 Preview It Ain't No Big Thing - The Radiants

  • 06 Preview Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart

  • 07 Preview Temptation 'Bout To Get Me - The Knight Brothers

  • 08 Preview Everything To Me - Donnie Elbert

  • 09 Preview Nothing But You - The Chessmen

  • 10 Preview I Won't Need You - Gene Chandler

  • 11 Preview Wear It On Our Face - The Dells

  • 12 Preview Do You Wanta Go - Andy Mack

  • 13 Preview Pushover - Etta James

  • 14 Preview Believe In Me - Little Milton

  • 15 Preview Searching For My Love - Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces

  • 16 Preview I Had A Talk With My Man - Mitty Collier

  • 17 Preview I Believe She Will - Eddie & Ernie

  • 18 Preview So Much Love - Maurice & Mac

  • 19 Preview Hurt So Bad - Ramsey Lewis

  • 20 Preview Here You Come Running - Sugar Pie DeSanto

  • 21 Preview Mama Didn't Lie - Jan Bradley

  • 22 Preview Go Away Little Boy - Marlena Shaw

  • 23 Preview The Soul Of A Man - Fontella Bass

  • 24 Preview Two In The Morning - Spooner's Crowd

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Subtle, slick and sophisticated.

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