Strokin'

Richard Tee - Strokin'

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Artist: Richard Tee
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-08-16
Music Label: Jvc Japan
Soundtracks:

First Love
Every Day
Strokin'
I Wanted It Too
Virginia Sunday
Jesus Children Of America
Take The "A" Train

Free Music Notes for Strokin'

Free Music Review: Thick in the period groove
Hit: 5 Stars

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.

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