Title: Bog Live
Artist: Brotherhood of Groove
Label: CD Baby
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 796873061629
Genre: Rock
The Brotherhood of Groove is a high-energy band that has elevated the New Orleans Funk sound to new and exciting levels of creative complexity. The BOG's unique style fuses soulful New Orleans brass band vocals with old school funk, rock, reggae, and modern and traditional jazz. Over the last 10 years BOG has developed a complex and sensational repertoire that has generated a loyal national fan base. Their albums, Pocket Full of Funk and BOG Style, the extensive list of collaborating master musicians, and the band's full time coast-to-coast touring have all contributed to their well-deserved success. Rarely in the music world has a bandleader arrived on the scene as talented and focused as guitarist/singer/songwriter Brandon Tarricone. Voted among the top ten guitarists by the 2001 Jambase reader's poll, Tarricone's creative songwriting and arrangements have attracted some of the country's best musicians eager to collaborate with him. His complex harmonic chord work, virtuoso fingering and soulful touch-combined with his intense on-stage energy-make people rise-up and dance for hours. During the past year, the band has brought in Producer/Sax player Jeff Watkins, known as lead Tenor for the James Brown Band for 14 years, to tighten the sound to the point of perfection. The Rhythm section is led by veteran heavy weight bassist Rob Watson (Tupac, Joe Louis Walker, Peter Erskine and many other) driving groove, combined with Jon Massing's masterful New Orleans style drumming, all of which makes even tame audiences rise and dance. A celebrated horn section led by Geoff Vidal and Sam Kininger (Soulive) includes several saxophones, as well as flute, to create a diverse symphonic jazz sound. The Brotherhood's communal musicianship has allowed the band to collaborate with and incorporate a number of amazing players into their performances during every tour, throughout the U.S. The Brotherhood's unique sound has been enhanced by horn masters: Martin Fierro (Jerry Garcia band, Sly and the Family Stone), Michael Ray (trumpet, Phish/Sun Ra/Kool and the Gang), John Ellis (sax, Charlie Hunter Quartet), Dave Grippo (sax, Trey Anastasio Band, Phish), Henley Douglas, Jr. (sax, Heavy Metal Horns/Boston Horns), Michael Tucker (sax, Pat Metheny, Head Shaft), Eric Traub (sax, Dr. John), John Stewart (sax, The Motet) are just a few of the chosen ones who rotate within the Brotherhood's horn section. The band has maintained balance by recording three albums. The first Pocket Full of Funk, at Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans, with mastering by Mark Wilder (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock) at Sony Studios, New York. Released in January 2002, Pocket Full of Funk was voted among the top ten albums of 2002 by Gambit Weekly (January, 2003) and garnered many great reviews across the country. The second, BOG Style features an amazing horn section with Jeff Watkins (James Brown Band), Sam Kininger (Soulive), Geoff Vidal, Steve Bernstein (Sex Mob), Henley Douglas Jr, (Boston Horns), and guests Ivan Neville (Neville Brothers), and Marco Benevento (the Duo) among others. The newest release, BOG Live, captures the band while on tour on the East Coast in 2006 and demonstrates how truly unique the bands live sound is and how much of an important part performance plays in the bands growth.
Tracks:
1.1 Gimme Some More
1.2 Now We Got the Time
1.3 Funky Miracle
1.4 Interlude
1.5 Jan Jan
1.6 Why Don't You
1.7 Inner City Blues
1.8 What's Going Down
1.9 Guilded Splinters
1.10 Eternal Soul
1.11 Superman
