All Kooked Out!

Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 30, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 5, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fog City Records
• ASIN: B000006O4H
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,061 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #5 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Funk Rock
  • #6 in Music > Indie Music > Jazz > Acid Jazz
  • #8 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Funk

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly Good, June 20, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: All Kooked Out! (Audio CD)

I love Galactic and the jazz/funk revival that they've led along with the Greyboy Allstars and Medeski Martin & Wood. This is without a doubt the best album to come out of that genre that I have ever heard. Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter and Skerik have composed one of the most dynamic and fun jazz albums in recent memory. This is not the sound of a stuffy jazz club; this is the sound of a sweaty dance floor where the audience is cheering wildly and the alcohol is flowing freely. Simply put, the album's amazing. If you like any of the above bands or older Headhunters-type jazz fusion, buy this right now. You will not take it out of your cd player for months.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stanton Moore and his mates sure know how to groove, July 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All Kooked Out! (Audio CD)

I endorse the comments from mlaurence of Gloucester and also add that if you enjoy the music of Charlie Hunter, especially his album Ready Set Shango, then go for this set from Stanton Moore which includes Hunter on 8 string guitar. You can just feel the live energy in this music and the musicianship from all the guys is just supreme. The video clip and extra information on this enhanced CD are an added bonus.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost great- maybe already there., July 7, 2001

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greg taylor (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Kooked Out! (Audio CD)

Sorry for the somewhat cryptic title. I may not have listened to this album enough to really appreciate it. I think I also have somewhat different standards than most of the reviewers. I have been listening to soul jazz bands since the mid-sixties. My comparisons are to some of the great Blue Note albums or to albums like Sparkplug by Melvin Sparks or some of Grant Green's great stuff. By those standards most of the music that I have heard lately doesn't really cut it. (Although to be fair, the recent releases by Mr. Sparks haven't seemed that good either.) But this album has some damn fine music on it. Mr. Moore is a wonderful funk and jazz drummer; always on the beat and always filling it in behind the band. I would love to see him live. I have this theory that God is a drummer (Jesus is definetly a tenor player). God as a combination of Moore, Omar Hakim, Jack DeJohnette and Elvin Jones. But I digress. Skerik is great on this album. Very soulful with a nice fat tenor sound and ready and able to take the harmony outside at the drop of a beat. This is the best I have heard from Charlie Hunter although I still think he has a ways to go before he is as good as Sparks, Upchurch, or Green at their best. But I guess the really cool thing about this album for me is that the comparisons are somewhat irrelevant. While they love where the music has come from these guys are taking it to new places. At times on this album they get it all together (I love the collective jam towards the end of Blues for Ben). Even when they sound a little weak (I swear there is an organ player on the album although if there is he or she is uncredited so probably it is one of the guitarists doing something dumb electronically. In any case the organ sound is one of my problems with the album-it just isn't fat enough for this kind of music)they still sound much better than anything of this type I have heard of late. I guess in the final analysis if it makes you feel good and like you wanna dance in spite of being an old white guy than it's all good. If you love this kind of music I also recommend that you get Melvin Sparks'contribution to the Legends of Acid Jazz series.