Distractions

Roy Hargrove | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Verve
• ASIN: B000EXOADG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,432 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I like it, I just like how it sounds., August 15, 2006

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The*hot*wax*kid - See all my reviews

This review is from: Distractions (Audio CD)

On this the latest disc by Roy Hargrove's RH Factor, you find a combination of warm melodies, funky deep bass groves, slick vocals and the lovely-mellow harmonies of Hargrove's trumpet. Which he uses to good effect, by placing little soundbites of horn in strategic places, for maxium effect. That is old school funk influenced by new school sounds. And just so that it is perfectly clear this guy is the real deal on the instrument. Keep in mind that he also has a second disc (which is gorgeuos) of Acoustic Jazz out with his Quartet. Not to mention that this is his #? release over the last decade. Proving that anything that he is playing is clearly by choice. And either you get it or you don't.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More good stuff..., July 4, 2006

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C. Karcher (San Antonio, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Distractions (Audio CD)

Nobody since Miles Davis has fully explored the possibilities that a jazz sensibility can offer as well as Roy Hargrove. The third album by the RH Factor continues this tradition, but without the excitement of the earlier discs. While this may simply be a result of playing the previous albums too much, it might be also be due to a vocal treatment that's starting to sound a little too familiar. However, when playing this and Roy Hargrove's new straight jazz album, Nothing Serious, on "random" mode it made for a beautiful couple of hours.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the fiercest grooves anywhere!, April 2, 2007

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Biggie Man - savior of the universe! "(hey so... (S.W. Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Distractions (Audio CD)

THIS IS WHAT GROOVIN' IS ALL ABOUT!!!

If I were to close my eyes, I would swear this is the old seventies

sound... except with a modern twist. R.H. is enough of a funkster to

how to work the funk. The bass and drums (great use of two drummers)

mostly play the bare minimum and the whole band just lays back and waits

for the groove to unfold rather than rushing to the next hook...

The jams don't go on so long that you want to skip ahead to the next tune -

It gets in, blows your mind, and boom - it's out.


Some of the tunes on here are reminiscent of the early Cameo sound,

Even maybe Rick James.

I thought of One Way at times and then Lakeside [I am not kidding!];

another tasted(?) a bit like World Class Wrecking crew... yet they do not

sound like any of these at all, I'm just telling you what I heard in my

own head as well as what my ears heard, know what I mean?

This band plays it all, AND PLAYS IT Fiercely HOT. On the other hand, it is

focused and on time as hell. This is funk and soul with a jazz

sensibility, not (as so much music seems to be) funky Jazz.

Oh, yeah, before I forget - Renee Nuefville can sing her butt off!!! Dare

I say that she somehow channels Chaka Kahn?

If you like funk with enough of a challenge to keep listening to it late

into the night, beyond bedtime, heck, into the wee morning hours 'till

your speakers are starting to rattle apart - buy this. Anyone that says

this is anything but pure genius, shouldn't jam this, they should find

music more to their liking!!!