| 1. Could It Be You |
| 2. It's Time for Love |
| 3. Closer to the Source |
| 4. You're No. 1 - In My Book |
| 5. Iced Tea |
| 6. Just Before Dawn |
| 7. Textures |
Closer to the Source,Dizzy Gillespie,WEA International,Afro-Cuban Jazz,Bop,Jazz-Funk
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Latin Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Jazz Funk
| Funk
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
Jazz
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00000IH9I Release Date: 1999-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Could It Be You
- It's Time for Love
- Closer to the Source
- You're No. 1 - In My Book
- Iced Tea
- Just Before Dawn
- Textures
Album Details
Limited Edition Digipack. Digitally Remastered with Original Cover and Liner Notes.
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie Manufacturer: WEA International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Latin Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Jazz Funk
| Funk
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0000563YT Release Date: 1999-04-13 |
Tracks:
- Could It Be You
- It's Time for Love
- Closer to the Source
- You're No. 1 - In My Book
- Iced Tea
- Just Before Dawn
- Textures
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie Manufacturer: King ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Latin Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Jazz Funk
| Funk
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0002B58YK Release Date: 2004-08-16 |
Tracks:
- Could It Be You
- It's Time for Love
- Closer to the Source
- You're No. 1 - In My Book
- Iced Tea
- Just Before Dawn
- Textures
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Latin Music
| Styles
| Music
Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Latin Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Jazz Funk
| Funk
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B0009NZ3QO Release Date: 2005-07-26 |
Tracks:
- Could It Be You
- Its Time For Love
- Closer To The Source
- Youre No. 1 - In My Book
- Iced Tea
- Just Before Dawn
- Textures
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Lowsy lounge music.......2006-07-19
If you're into fusion I guess you might like this CD...
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Closer to the Source
Leroy Hutson Manufacturer: Charly Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Blues
| Styles
| Music
General
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soul
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
Quiet Storm
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
R&B
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ASIN: B0000036A3 Release Date: 1997-12-09 |
Tracks:
- In the Mood
- Where Did Love Go?
- They've Got Love
- Get to This (You'll Get to Me)
- Closer to the Source
- Heaven Right Here (On Earth)
- Everybody's a Masterpiece
- You're a Winner
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0002XNCBY Release Date: 2004-01-06 |
Album Description
Reissue of his 1984 album for Atlantic in a digipak. Guests include Stevie Wonder, Branford Marsalis and Marcus Miller. Seven tracks. 1998 Atlantic Records release.|
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Closer to the Source
Dizzy Gillespie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General
| Bebop
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00000C3G9 |
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Hutson II/Closer to the Source
Leroy Hutson ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soul
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
R&B
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B0000259TJ |
Tracks:
- Love The Feeling
- Situations
- I Do I Do (Want To Make Love To You)
- I Think I'm Falling In Love
- Love To Hold You Close
- Flying High
- Blackberry Jam
- Sofunkstication
- Don't It Make You Feel Good
- In The Mood
- Where Did Love Go
- They've Got Love
- Get To This (You'll Get To Me)
- Closer To The Source
- Heaven Right Here (On Earth)
- Everybody's A Masterpiece
- You're A Winner
Album Description
Two of the former Impressions vocalist's solo albums paired together, 1976's 'Hutson II' and 1978's 'Closer To The Source'. A combined total of 17 tracks, all digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Also features the original cover art of botCustomer Reviews:
How did these recordings stay "forgotten" for so long.......2002-07-22
Hutson II, as i described previously is a true masterpiece of the Chicago post-doowop style.
Not as heralded as the "Stax sound", "Muscle Shoals style", or "Classic Motown" It seems to me the doowop sound really never caught on with the "gringos" as did the more dance-oreinted R&B, (especially the repetative & overrated sounds of James Brown or the Booker T. & MGs stuff), or the pop oriented Motown sounds that were mostly pure "blacksploitation" on the part of Berry Gordy (in my opinion)that is - until Marvin , Stevie and a few others got progressive minded and opened things up a bit..
Everyone still clings to those sounds as cherished childhood memories take precident over musical "growth".
The Chicago sound, as embodied by the great work done at Brunswick and later Curtom studios IS legendary.(leave it to the English & Japonese to acknowledge this fact while the musics remain unreleased here domestically in the land and CITY of the music's origin!!)
I'll take the Chi-lites and Impressions EVERY day before the legendary "JB", but alas.. it is just a matter of taste.
This being said, Hutson II is the centerpiece of the 2 re-issues, although the 2nd cd has memorable momnts too(Closer to the Source).
.Highlights include-
"I do I do", classic doowop in the Impressions bag
" I think Im falling in Love", Love the Feeling" and "situations" are very PROGRESSIVE funk tracks with some jazzy backup work from the Curtom House Musicians from those years.
"In the mood" -a very musical but quite humorous "tip of the cap" to Marvin Gaye and the big Barry White. Leroy Hutson gives "off center" musical quotes from the "What's goin On" cadenza, and White's "Never gonna Give You UP"!... It will make you smile a bit.
One more thing, I ALWAYS got a charge outta the Leroy Hutson lp covers. That over the top "70s Thang that the young folks nowadays can never top, no matter HOW hard they try.
Why this guy is not a legend is beyond me..(actually, he IS , but in England, and I believe Japan. You can have your "Prince",I will stick with Leroy Hutson and the countless others who really INNOVATED .
MANY galaxies of stars for the recording-the best!
Genius + soul = genius + soul.......2001-11-17
I dont know why this idiom is not as heralded as the Stax sound, Muscle Shoals style, or Motown for example... I think it is because the doowop sound really never caught on with the "gringos" as did R&B, (especially the repetative & overrated sounds of James Brown or the Booker T. & MGs stuff), and the pop oriented Motown sounds that were mostly pure "blacksploitation" on the part of Berry Gordy (in my opinion), until Marvin , Stevie and a few others got progressive minded and opened things up a bit....... Everyone still clings to as cherished childhood memories take precident over musical "growth".
The Chicago sound, as embodied by the great work done at Brunswick and later Curtom studios IS legendary. and leave it to the English & Japonese to acknowledge this fact while the musics remain unreleased here domestically in the land of the music's origin. I'll take the Chi-lites and Impressions EVERY day before the legendary "JB" it is just a matter of taste.....
This being said, Hutson II is the centerpiece, but there are also treasures on the 2nd cd ("Closer.....").Highlights including a very musical but quite humorous "tip of the cap" to Marvin Gaye and the big Barry White. Leroy Hutson gives "off center" musical quotes from the "What's goin On" cadenza, and White's "Never gonna Give You UP"!!!! CUTE!
One more thing, I ALWAYS got a charge outta the Leroy Hutson lp covers.
He really went "over the top" with alla that crazy "FLY" threads, his get-ups used to break me up,that look was as ridiculous as the Hippy outfits during those early 70's!
Personally, the covers detracted from the quality of musics within, and in all probability, HURT Leroy's career(????).Why this guy is not a legend is beyond me..........
You cant judge a book by its cover, but ALAS, most people do JUST THAT ! Great cd, and ther'e 2 more of 'em, also "TWO for ONE" packages. Get 'em on Amazon also.
the best!
The sun DOESNT ever set...................2001-11-14
Again, a TREASURE of music from one of "Soul/Funk" musics almost completely neglected "Giacomo-of-all-trades"(I just dont like the name Jack, hehe!)LEROY HUTSON has to be re-issued by "BRITISH CURTOM records"------caralho(!!!!), I used to LIVE a few miles from Curtom studios in Chicago when we moved to the "North side"--and it takes the wonderful record company in UNITED KINGDOM, E-U-R-O-P-E to send it back here to us??? This has been happening since the BEATLES!
Another "surprise", there is a BIG collector market for the original Hutson LPs, but now, DAMAS Y CABELLEROS, there are THREE "two for one" releases of Leroy hutson's INCREDIBLE 70s musics!!!
HUTSON II is his finest hour, and the best cd of the bunch of "em.
Anyone that doesnt know this composer/instrumentalist/producer was a hand picked replacement vocalist in Curtis Mayfield?Jerry Butler's incredible vocal group, the Impressions.
WHAT exactly makes Leroy a cut above the rest, and WHY was he so neglected??
Could it be- his vocal frasing combines with the beautifully voiced "doowop" style background vocals,or maybe the "usually unpredictable chord progressions of the compositions, first rate musicianship of the Curtom stable of session musicians??
Add, the nicely voiced chords,sometimes with some tricky intervals . The songs are not 2 minute "radio fodder", but TRUE expression of the man's musical voice. WAIT, this is probably why his musics DIDNT SELL, uffa!!!!!!
the showcase songs on the cd are the honey dripped "doowop" *I Do I Do(Wanna Make Love)*- the Jazzy *Think Im Fallin In Love* and *Love to Hold You Close*(Think early Tower of Power sounded almost like these tracks).
The nice instrumental interlude *Situations* didnt impress the English reviewer pete Burns, but it is a gem, and while *Blackberry jam* is nothing more than an ordinary funk instrumental workout, it does feature a hidden treasure, Chicago Flautist/whistler(yes, WHISTLER) Joel Brandon. Check out his almost multi-fonic whistled solo on "B.J"., he also did some nice stuff with tenor saxman Chico Freeman here too!
The second cd, the LP "Closer to The Source" is slightly more "commercial", but the lenght of the "jams" and the steady craftsmanship make it a winner too(although the song, "Your a Winner" is the only outright "dog" on both cds--"motivational" songs usually are, no???
It isnt supposed to be anything more than this, EXCELLENT soulful musics.
I HATE that the term used to describe this music is catagorized as "OLD SCHOOL", school was never out at all!! You peoples were just subject to "musical detention", as administered by the myopic and greedy record companies who want everyone to listen and buy the same safe and sanitized manure.
That is, the musical BIG MAC hamburger the recording industry is frying on corporate grills right now as I rant, hehehehehehehehe
Dont pass this cd up!(ANOTHER of my "orders"??,hehehe)
It's a dont miss for those who enjoy the "Soul/Funk side of the street..........................100000000 stars, Mr Leroy!
Viva o som, sempre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hutson II/Closer to the Source
Manufacturer: Jdc Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soul
| R&B
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0002B6S4E Release Date: 1976-10-28 |
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