EDDIE & CHARLIE PALMIERI-HARLEM RIVER DRIVE-LATIN FUNK

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EDDIE & CHARLIE PALMIERI-HARLEM RIVER DRIVE-LATIN FUNK!


A MINT-VG++ ORIGINAL LP ON ROULETTE 3004

FROM 1971 IN STEREO WITH SHRINK WRAP STILL OVER COVER!

WITH ORIGINAL ROULETTE INNER SLEEVE AS WELL AS LP SIZED LYRIC SHEET(AGED AND FRAYED EDGES)

PRODUCED BY EDDIE PALMIERI WITH JIMMY NORMAN ON VOCALS

5 TRACKS INCLUDE BROKEN HOME, SEEDS OF LIFE, IF WE HAD PEACE TODAY, IDLE HANDS, HARLEM RIVER DRIVE

SHRINK STILL TIGHT AND INTACT ALL AROUND, ALTHOUGH DUSTY AND AGED DISCOLORED. RIGHT CORNERS WITH ROUGH SPOTS AND SMALL OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. BOTOTM EDGE SLEEVE SIDE SPLIT ABOUT TWO INCHES.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE. APPEARS PRISTINE AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE; UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS MAY BE SEEN IF ASSIDUOUSLY LOOKED FOR. THE VINYL IS A THIN BLANK.

FROM A PRIVATE JAZZ COLLECTION STORED BY THE ORIGINAL OWNER WHO WAS A NOTED JAZZ BAND ASSOCIATE

VERY RARELY SEEN IN THIS CONDITION IN APPEARING UNPLAYED OR CLOSE TO IT!

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Thom Jurek
The reason this record is "legendary" is because it marks the first recorded performances, in 1970, of Eddie and Charlie Palmieri as bandleaders. The reason it should be a near mythical recording (it has never been available in the U.S. on CD, and was long out of print on LP before CDs made the scene), is for its musical quality and innovation. The Palmieris formed a band of themselves, a couple of Latinos that included Andy Gonzales, jazz-funk great -- even then -- Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, and some white guys and taught them how to play a music that was equal parts Cuban mambo, American soul via Stax/Volt, blues, Funkadelic-style rock, pop-jazz, and harmonic and instrumental arrangements every bit as sophisticated as Burt Bacharach's or Henry Mancini's or even Stan Kenton's. One can hear in "Harlem River Drive (Theme)" and "Idle Hands" a sound akin to War's on World Is a Ghetto. Guess where War got it? "If (We Had Peace)" was even a model for Lee Oskar's "City, Country, City." And as much as War modeled their later sound on this one record, as great as they were, they never reached this peak artistically. But there's so much here: the amazing vocals (Jimmy Noonan was in this band), the multi-dimensional percussion section, the tight, brass-heavy horn section, and the spaced-out guitar and keyboard work (give a listen to "Broken Home") where vocal lines trade with a soprano saxophone and a guitar as snaky keyboards create their own mystical effect. One can bet that Chick Corea heard in Eddie's piano playing a stylistic possibility for Return to Forever's Light As a Feather and Romantic Warrior albums. The band seems endless, as if there are dozens of musicians playing seamlessly together live -- dig the percussion styling of Manny Oquendo on the cowbell and conga and the choral work of Marilyn Hirscher and Allan Taylor behind Noonan. Harlem River Drive is a classic because after 30-plus years, it still sounds as if listeners are the ones catching up to it. It's worth every dime you pay for it, so special order it today.

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