Just Give Me Some Mo' Boney Fields

• 1Just Give Me Some Mo'03:21
• 2Back In The Day04:00
• 3Crazy 'Bout You05:13
• 4The Change Has Yet To Come03:48
• 5What Is Wrong With You04:24
• 6Still Together03:30
• 7Something's Holding Me05:03
• 8Cross My Heart03:15
• 9Control Of You04:37
• 10Lisa (Bonus Track)04:40
• 11The Thrill Is Gone03:50
• 12I Know Yes I Know04:05
• Total Runtime49:46

Info for Just Give Me Some Mo'

Als echter Bandenchef hat Boney Fields immer gewusst, wie man sich umgibt. Für sein siebtes Album in fast einem Vierteljahrhundert hat er sich allerdings selbst übertroffen. Neben den üblichen Spadassinen, die ihn normalerweise auf Tourneen und im Studio begleiten, hat er dieses Mal den aus Dakar stammenden Hervé Samb (Marcus Miller, Salif Keita, Meshell Ndegeocello, Amadou & Mariam, Oumou Sangaré, Jimmy Cliff, Kelly Lee Evans und Lisa Simone), während er sich die Unterstützung des unschätzbaren Sébastian Danchin (Produzent von Jean-Jacques Milteau und Mighty Mo Rodgers und Autor der "Encyclopédie Du Rhythm N' Blues Et De La Soul" sowie von Biografien über B. B. King und Elvis Presley, ebenfalls bei Fayard). Das von Danchin selbst unterzeichnete "The Change Has Yet To Come" erinnert an die Gestik der Mar-Keys und der Memphis Horns (die kupferfarbene Brücke zitiert das "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" von Otis Redding und Steve Cropper), während Boneys "What Is Wrong With You" an die Temptations in der Norman Whitfield-Ära erinnert. Während das Instrumental "Still Together" nur ein Shuffle ist, der sich von Freddie Kings und der Version von "Sweet Home, Chicago" durch die Blues Brothers (in der neben den vier Bläsern auch die sechs elektrifizierten Streicher des hervorragenden Joseph Compagnon hervorstechen) abhebt, sind Originale wie der hektische Titeltrack, das ergreifende "Back In The Day" (in dem Boney seiner Mutter huldigt), "Something's Holding Me" (mit Pity's Hammond), "Something's Holding Me" (mit der Hammond) und "Something's Holding Me" (mit der Hammond) die besten Songs, die die Band je geschrieben hat.

Boney Fields

Boney Fields
“Real music by real musicians” as Prince used to say. Just like Prince, the trumpet player Boney Fields is part of this generation of African-American musicians born to tame the stage.

So it is no coincidence that his playing partners are named Lucky Peterson, Luther Allison, James Cotton, Buddy Guy, Liz Mc Comb, as well as George Clinton, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley or Bootsy Collins.

Boney Fields faithfully merges Funk and Blues, the two sides of the same Great Black Music, and he does so with the skills acquired during a career spent playing on stages all over the world.

When this child of a Chicago-based large family started his career, he realized that he could have turned bad. But growing up both to ghetto songs and Gospel songs praised by his parents, Boney Fields chose a unique voice, his own, that he enhanced with the practice of an instrument, the trumpet. The two-fold talent of this singer/trumpet player propelled him from one session to the next alongside those legends. He accompanies them in studio sessions or on stage and additionally composes – during his “spare” time- complex arrangements for brass sections like those of Tower of Power or Earth Wind and Fire.

"Nothing beats the pleasure that you get from being in front of a crowd surrounded by your band, making music together." - Boney Fields

Far from Tinseltown glitz and glam, it is on stage that Boney Fields learned the profession and enriched his artistry. The tours are long, the roads not always paved with gold. No matter the lack of sleep or number of miles traveled, being on stage is the only thing Boney Fields lives for.

And the stage is where he finally carved his own style, a retro-futuristic mix of Blues and Brass Funk. A genuine aesthetics that he deploys on records as well as on stages with his own band, an explosive septet who mastered the magical formula of the groove of the origins long ago. Everywhere they go Boney Fields & his Band leave like a highly energetic and exhilarating streak of powder.

A relentless showman, Boney Fields makes his music travel in each and every corner of the planet when invited to prestigious festivals such as Jazz à Vienne, Jazz in Marciac, Madajazzcar, Tabarka Jazz Festival… It is during these shows that he perfected the vibrant repertoire of his 6th album, a record made with the help of a renewed collective of musicians.

And it is on those same stages that one will have to come and see him play his new collection of “real“ songs performed, as Prince used to say, “by real musicians”.

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