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This album - Amett Cobb Live - catches the wild man at his best: in front of an audience. He is obviously loose and obviously enjoying himself. Backed by a sympathetic rhythm section - Rein de Graaff, Jacques Schols, and John Engels - Cobb cooks like a demon on this set of blues and standards.
"Cobb's Idea" opens the album and it's the tenorman's meat and potatoes - the old twelve-bar blues. Arnett growls and billows with a boozy swagger, while Rein de Graaff tosses in some boppish chords. The thing rocks and rolls - the pianist has some fun in the well-worn idiom, bassist Jacques Schols makes his blues credentials well-known, and Cobb honks out some spirited fours with trap man John Engels. The audience yelps in response. "Sweet Georgia Brown" follows with Cobb's power unleashed - you can feel the wind and the rain in his playing. His solo is raw and lusty and smoking and he ends it with one of his favorite tags, "a-hunting we will go". The rhythm section then dismisses the notion that Americans have a stranglehold on the blues, as Arnett Cobb barks his encouragement. A performance con brio!
The second side opens with a durable gospel classic, "Just A Closer Walk With Thee". Cobb displays his heart and soul here, but not without the dirty grift in his playing that would draw sidelong glances at a Southern Baptist church. Cobb's tone is a three-dimensional tone. Rein De Graaff testifies with some heavy chording and the thing has a tasty down-home ending.
Next comes the international anthem of the tenor saxophone, "Body And Soul". Cobb's quavering vibrato on the melody is deep and smooth - there are breezes and canyons in his playing that he saves up for ballads. He's really a genuine romanticist, as you can hear. The acapella coda is also typical Arnett Cobb - there's a taste of "Moody's Mood", a dollop of "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" (you can hear Cobb tell the crowd, "That's where I'm from," after the quote) and some deep honks concluding with a pinch of "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush", proving that there's more than a little corn on this Cobb.
The album concludes with "I Got Rhythm", the Gershwin melody which launched a thousand jazz tunes. Cobb's lusty, steam-driven swing just takes over - the man wails. This is a positive, unbridled romp from one of the 100% originals in music. If you've finished listening to this without your leg shaking and your head bobbing and a stupid grin on your face then you need help, my friend. |
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ARTISTS
Arnett Cobb (tenor sax); Rein de Graaff (piano); Jacques Schols (bass); John Engels (drums) |
TRACKS
- Cobb's Idea
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
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- Body And Soul
- I Got Rhythm
- Final Words By Arnett Cobb
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