Search - Charles Earland :: Intensity

Awesome

Victor da la Tnalag | 06/11/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Billy Cobham, Lee Morgan, Charles Earland... does not get any better than this! One of my all time favorites. Still listen to the LP, will need to buy the CD someday."

Fabulous sound and playing throughout this record

D. Patt | Toronto, Canada | 08/16/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Lee Morgan's trumpet cuts through and adds so much bite to these songs. There is a version of the tune, "Happy Cause I'm Goin Home" (by the band Chicago)that is simply brilliant music! A lively, happy, upbeat and very bright version.

Throughout all of the songs included on this record the drummer fuels a unique, powerful high-energy.

The Hammond B-3 playing by Charles is plentiful here: Lots of long solos where Charles stretches out ... over and over again; against the heavy backdrop of a barnburner.

I kept looking at this CD in a display bin in the big music retail store downtown for months before I took the plunge. Then I ordered many CD's by Charles that followed this one; one of the all-time great Charles Earland CD's. A different sound here; not merely the run-of-the mill organ combos with these names. No way. Powerful, driving ensemble playing backing up burning B-3."