Modern Sound Quintet Otinku (LP, 180g Vinyl)

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Modern Sound Quintet: Otinku (LP, 180g Vinyl)
- Re-issue of hard-to-find 1971 jazz album, originally recorded and released in Finland.
- Fascinating fusion of modern jazz and elements of Caribbean music, African roots and pan.
- Quintet featuring Rudy Smith from Trinidad & Tobago, plus musicians from Barbados, Surinam, and Ghana.
- The introduction of steelpan as a jazz instrument in Europe.
- Newly written and researched liner notes by Ray Funk, based on recent interviews with Rudy Smith.
- Reproduction of the original album artwork with additional information. Gatefold sleeve and 180gram vinyl pressing, remastered from the original analog master tapes.
Article properties: Modern Sound Quintet: Otinku (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Interpret: Modern Sound Quintet
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Album titlle: Otinku (LP, 180g Vinyl)
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Genre Jazz
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Label Cree Records
- Preiscode CLP
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
- Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
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Artikelart LP
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EAN: 5397102122910
- weight in Kg 0.22
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01 | Otinku | Modern Sound Quintet |
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02 | Flowers In The Rain | Modern Sound Quintet |
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03 | Bye Bye Blackbird | Modern Sound Quintet |
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04 | Flamenco Groove | Modern Sound Quintet |
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05 | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy | Modern Sound Quintet |
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06 | Sugar Daddy | Modern Sound Quintet |
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07 | Bags Groove | Modern Sound Quintet |
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08 | Taking A Nap | Modern Sound Quintet |
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09 | Ursia | Modern Sound Quintet |
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10 | Softly As In The Morning Sunrise | Modern Sound Quintet |
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11 | Memphis Underground | Modern Sound Quintet |
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Modern Sound Quintet
The Modern Sounds quartet’s George ‘Shockness’ Allyn s learned to play trap drums and Rudy Smith focused his tenor pan playing on jazz improvisation. Initially, Modern Sounds were based in southern Spain but toured widely going to Gibraltar, Tangiers and Mallorca. They took the name Modern Sounds in tribute to the Modern Jazz Quartet which featured Milt Jackson and because they wanted to push pan as the most modern sound in jazz.
In 1968, Rudy Smith started up a new version of the Modern Sounds Quartet in Stockholm, Sweden using Caribbean musicians he met there as well as locals like Swedish trumpeter Lars Samuelson who played with them at times.
A friend introduced him to pianist John Roachford from Barbados who had gone to London before making his way to Stockholm. He introduced Rudy to a bass player he had worked with Sigfried McIntosh from Surinam who had been based in Holland before also moving to Stockholm whose brother Leo Gilles had played with Rudy in the Modern Sounds in Gibralter a few years earlier. Then they got as their drummer George ‘Shockness’ Allyn who had joined a rock group and was headed to Finland when he decided to bail on that plan and moved to Stockholm to hook up with his old friend Rudy Smith again.
This new Modern Sounds Quartet started getting regular gigs all over Sweden and went from a quartet to a quintet after congo player Kofi Ayivor sat in with them at a Stockholm club called ‘The Drugstore’. Aloyer was from Ghana and had grown up playing in highlife bands in Ghana before coming to Europe as a musician where he had been touring with the Silvio Cambert Cabaret Group that played Cuban and Latin music.
They were sought out to record an album by EMI and set out to do an album that mixed originals and covers of both long time jazz standards and recent jazz hits.
As a quintet the band was successful and traveled all over Scandinavia. Ayivor continued with Modern Sounds until in 1973 he got the call to come join the very successful band Osibisa based in London which was also a melding on Africa and the Caribbean players though less jazz oriented. After Kofi Ayivor’s departure, Modern Sounds went through further changes adding horns and several new members. They changed their name to Modern Sound Corporation, moving their sound to more jazz rock with a reggae and funk influences with singers and playing in disco clubs. They released an album Dancin' Feetin 1978 on K-tel Records. They continued until the end of 1980.
Sadly, most members of the Modern Sounds Quintet have passed on. John Roachford died in 2010 having moved back to Barbados. Shackness stayed on in Sweden and died a few years ago.Sigfried McIntosh passed away in 2017.
Wiederentdeckung
Da hat Bear Family einmal mehr eine verschollene Scheibe wieder zugänglich gemacht. Das Modern Sound Quintet um den in Trinidad und Tobago geborenen Steel-Pan-Spieler Rudy Smith hatte weitere Musiker aus Ghana, Surinam und Barbados in seinen Reihen. OTINKU wurde 1971 aber nicht in tropischen Gefilden aufgenommen, sondern im kühlen Finnland. Das Quintett versuchte sich an einer Verschmelzung von groovendem Modern Jazz mit karibischen und afrikanischen Rhythmen und Sounds. Mit seinerzeit populären Jazztracks wie “Mercy Mercy Mery” oder “Memphis Underground“ bewegte man sich auf der sicheren Seite, die Besonderheit war der feingliedrige Sounds der auf Basis von Ölfässern gefertigten Steeldrums, ergänzt um Klavier, Bassgitarre, Drums und Congas. Ein tanzbares Vergnügen in sehr guter Pressung, allerdings blieb die Nadel leider zwischen den Tracks 3 und 4 hängen. Ausführliche Liner Notes runden gelungen ab.

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