Mo' Roots [Maceo Parker] [731451106828]

1. Hallelujah, I Love You
2. Chicken
3. Let's Get It On
4. Hamp's Boge Woogie
5. Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song)
6. Jack's Back
7. Sister Sadie
8. Daddy's Home
9. Down by the Riverside
10. Southwick
Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 511 068
Credits

Producer Stephan Meyner; Maceo Parker
Engineer David Baker
Personnel: Maceo Parker (alto saxophone, vocals); Kym Mazelle (vocals); Steve Williamson (alto saxophone); Pee Wee Ellis (tenor saxophone); Fred Wesley (trombone); Larry Goldings (Hammond B-3); Rodney Jones (guitar); Bill Stewart, Jimmy Madison (drums).
Recorded at Sound On Sound Studios, New York, New York in March 1991.
The 2008 reissue of MO ROOTS does Maceo Parker fans a good turn by putting this 1991 instrumental groovefest back into circulation. Flanked by fellow JB alums Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis, Parker wails through 10 cuts of feel-good, jazz-inflected R&B and funk. Amid some fine band-penned originals, the set list includes lively covers of tunes by Ray Charles, Otis Redding, and Marvin Gaye, as well as funkified treatments of jazz compositions by Horace Silver and Lionel Hampton.
Critic Reviews

Down Beat (11/91) - 3.5 Stars - Good Plus - "...a perfectly cohesive essay on timeless black roots music...Parker's alto style is, as always, both tightly focused and freely roaming..."