Cleveland Eaton – Plenty Good Eaton

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Artist: Cleveland Eaton|Label:Real Gone Music / Black Jazz |Format: LP |Genre:Jazz / Funk|Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed

Cleveland Eaton
Plenty Good Eaton
Real Gone Music/ Black Jazz 1155

Cleveland “Cleve” Eatonis a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, right there withNat Cole,Wilson Pickett,Martha Reeves,Jerry Wexler,The Blind Boys Of Alabama, and a few dozen other notables. “I don’t play like nobody else,” he toldThe Birmingham Newswhen inducted in 2008. “I do my own thing. It’s absolutely Alabama.” Eaton’sPlenty Good Eaton, recorded inCurtis Mayfield’s soul Chicago at Chess Recording Studio with local hired-guns and first out in 1975, belongs to the R&B genre, even though there are side paths into soul-jazz. The lushly arranged “Chi-Town” proceeds from a cloned “Shaft” introduction into a lushly-produced funk romp with Eaton’s upright bass guiding a chicken-scratch funk guitar, electronic keyboards, strings, horns, and a female singer or two. With Eaton’s acoustic bass typically prominent in the mix, and withEd Green’s violin steering its melodic course, “Keena” exists as a happy union of R&B and disco. In spite of lame repetitive chants of its title, “Moe, Let’s Have A Party” makes the right dance-floor moves with a funk groove that popular bands likeRufusand theOhio Playerswouldn’t mind claiming as their own. Cleveland Eaton (bass),Kenneth Prince(electric piano),Ernest Johnson(guitar),Odel I Brown(organ, electric piano),Morris Jennings(percussion),Derf Raheen (percussion, flute),Arie Brown(tenor saxophone),Artee “Duke” Payne,Edwin Daughtry(tenor saxophone, flute),John Watson(trombone),Steve Galloway(bass trombone), andBobby Christian(vibraphone).

Songs:

Side One
Chi-Town Theme
Keena
Moe, Let’s Have a Party
Are You Out There Somewhere Caring

Side Two
Kaiser 405
All Your Lover, All Day, All Night
Hamburg 302

NEW SEALED LP