CAROLA GREY - Girls Can't Hit

LIP 8945-2

After two more or less traditional jazz album CDs which establish her reputation, this is the first electric funky album of the drummer/composer.
Of course this doesn't do justice to the music - which can be compared to "Blow by Blow" and "There And Back" from the musical concept, but has it's own sound.

The musicians are partly American, partly Germans - and form Carola's steady european band.

• Martin Kälberer - keyboards, piano
• Rick Keller - sax
• Werner Neumann - guitars
• Paul Koji Shigihara - guitar and guitarsynthesizer on "Aspects Of Eve"
• Ina Stock - English Horn an "Golden Boy"
• Paul Tietze - bass (ex Gianna Nannini)

The tunes (marked links are realaudio sounds):

Check out the guitar solo on "Bits and Pieces" - it is one of my favorite guitar soli of all times.

1. Bits and Pieces 6:02 - two examples: melody (ca. 40 KB), guitar solo (ca. 65 KB)
2. Aspects Of Eve 6:45
3. Golden Boy Greets Buddha 7:06 (ballad, 45 KB example from melody - a bit more then 30 s.)
4. The Search For Taco 5:34
5. 3/3/3/5/5/5/4/4 2:57 - (drumsolo with indian spoken vocals, sound example from the middle of the solo)
6. Girls Can't Hit! 5:53 (Brecker brotherish.., example from melody. 30 KB)
7. It's All Good 5:31
8. Don't Play It Again, Sam! 5:20 (very funky, even though the melody comes from an older hard-bop composition of carola)
9. Room 201 3:16

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