Strokin [Import]

Richard Tee | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Jvc Japan
• ASIN: B000068WDG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,475,642 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. First Love

2. Every Day

3. Strokin'

4. I Wanted It Too

5. Virginia Sunday

6. Jesus Children Of America

7. Take The A Train

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thick in the period groove, May 7, 2007

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Steve Spencer (Little Rock, AR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strokin' (Audio CD)

The gang's all here: the in-demand New York session pros that fueled more hit records and seminal fusion cuts that anybody could accurately track down. And who knows how many tracks for TV commercials.

Richard Tee came up from North Carolina and added a thick spread of Gospel to the collective sometimes billed as 'Stuff' (and sometimes not billed at all.) Every cut here climbs into a groove and rides. You NEVER, not for a second, feel like anybody in the room is thinking about what they're gonna have for dinner. They're RIGHT IN IT.

Except for the "Take the A Train" cover, which just didn't really work.

What I've always sort of KNOWN but never realized until I got this CD is that Richard Tee has a completely recognizable and unique sound for every different keyboard he plays. His piano sound almost screams "RICHARD TEE HERE!" The large fisted octave additions and wonderful stairstepping chords could only be the work of one person. But his electric piano sound is unique, clustered harmonies, but clustered lower in the keyboard than, say, Bob James's funky dissonances. Tee's use of a wah-wahed Fender Rhodes makes me wonder why nobody else much bothered to wah the electric piano. Tee's organ enters, usually in prominent background, and once again you think, "that could only be Richard Tee." Which is only fitting since it's HIS project.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I just don't get it., July 1, 2001

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MR J. A Clemas (Devon, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strokin (Audio CD)

I bought this album on vinyl from a shop in London a few years ago and I don't understand why it hasn't been made readily available like many seventies fusion recordings. It certainly isn't average. It features one of the most influential keyboard players of that era and a line-up that is practically a who's who of the New York session world (Breckers, Steve Gadd, Eric Gale, Tom Scott). The grooves are fantastic. The arrangements are superb. The production is as well. Even the singing isn't too bad. Come on Columbia. Give it the deluxe remastering that you've given to so many of fusions best albums.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars J D, November 9, 2005

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Jay C. Danley "J D" (Highland, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strokin (Audio CD)

I got this album many years ago. Just recently recived the CD. Love it! If this CD doesn't get you hoppin and thumpin nothing will.