Len Boogsie Sharpe

Track Listing

Blue Rose
Fresh Air
Sunday Morning Funk
Just Love Me
Groovin' in LA
First Born
My Beautiful You
Calypso Nights
Moving Away
Taking It Easy
What's Up
Liming On The Corner
38 Special - (Solo Interlude)
Small Talk - (Solo Interlude)

Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe
BOOGSIE'S "FRESH AIR"

Len "Boogsie" Sharpe's second solo CD. Fresh sounds and original compositions.

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Review

In recent times we've engaged with composer/pannist Len "Boogsie" Sharpe mostly through his masterly arrangements for Phase II Pan Groove and other Panorama contenders. It's been a while since he's given us a solo recording, and we've been duly rewarded for our patience with Fresh Air.

Rare for a pan-jazz offering, the album does not include a single jazz standard or pop cover; Fresh Air is 100% Boogsie - an indication of the artist's immense talent and confidence. The prevailing mood is a cool, breezy Caribbean-jazz groove (Fresh Air, Taking It Easy), but there is calypso-funk here as well (Sunday Morning Funk, Calypso Nights), and, naturally, Boogsie's awesome wizardry on the tenor pan. Overlook the couple of over-slow, cloying moments - this may well be the perfect soundtrack to a cool Caribbean evening. (GP/eC)

Track Listing

Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe BOOGSIE'S "FRESH AIR"

Review

Len 'Boogsie' Sharpe
BOOGSIE'S "FRESH AIR"