Album Notes

Info about Don Moors is available on other releases here on CD Baby and - in great detail - at
www.donmoors.com
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As for this particular CD, first the disclaimer:
If you're an audiophile, leave this one alone. It was recorded rough mixed at a live concert performance in an open air venue and has less than studio quality.
However, if you're charged up by great jazz performances by great players-lengthy, raw, inspired, and all around kick ass-this one is for you!
I decided that the quality of the work offset the marginal quality of the recording and (at the urging of friends and fans) released it anyway.
Listen to the excerpts here and, for an outside opinion of this band in performance, see the review below:

DON MOORS AND THEN SOME - YOSHI'S - OAKLAND, CA - July 11, 1990

Jazz fusion vibraphonist DON MOORS and his group came roaring through the East Bay the other night making me wonder what else is going on in Sacramento that I ought to know about...
This former Oakland resident and West Indian native has formed a band that is, according to Moors, "a culmination of all I am." And that, friends, is a bunch.
The first of two long sets opened with LITTLE P.C., a wonderfully rhythmic piece that Don wrote for his four year old son. This was followed by the gentle SUMMER SONG with featured both an introspective vibe solo and the haunting soprano saxophone work of MTAFITI IMARA.
Don shifted to his Electronic Mallet for the next tune, ALABAMA DEMENTIA, which he announced as tribute to his southern woman's ability to drive him crazy.
The first set conluded with THE CHOCOLATE FOX, a funky, danceable celebration of black womanhood.
The second set was equal to the first in charm and intensity, from the sensuous FINALLY SHE SAID YES to the smokin' samba PROMESSA DE VOCE featuring the entire rhythm section in an extended Afro-Brazilian romp.
This group was advertised as a fusion band. As the name says, it's that, AND THEN SOME.
The small but highly charged crowd responded enthusiastically to the entire night. It's too bad that a midsummer Wednesday booking limited the exposure of the band. I look forward to the release of their pending album and hope that Yoshi's can bring them back for a weekend date real soon.
Whenever it is, don't miss them...

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