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Little Motor People

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Released
  
1993

Producer
  
Stefan F. Winter

Release date
  
1993

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
61:08

Artist
  
Hank Roberts

Label
  
JMT Records

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Recorded
  
December 1992 Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg

Little Motor People (1993)
  
22 Years from Now (1997)

Similar
  
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Little Motor People is the third album led by cellist Hank Roberts which was recorded in late 1992 and released on the JMT label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars. The LA Times' Bill Kohlhaase noted "the highlight here is Roberts' five-part suite "Saturday/Sunday" with its acoustic sensibilities and smart interplay between Roberts, pianist Django Bates and percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan. Moving easily between jazz rhythms, tribal beats and classically influenced passages, the piece marks Roberts as a composer willing to overlook the usual boundaries between jazz and progressive music".

Track listing

All compositions by Hank Roberts except as indicated

  1. " Saturday/Sunday" - 18:58
  2. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen Yip Harburg) - 4:30
  3. "Only Minutes Left" - 4:47
  4. "My Favourite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:19
  5. "Little Motor People" - 10:07
  6. "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) - 3:04
  7. "Black as a Sunny Day" (Django Bates, Hank Roberts) - 2:33
  8. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 5:29
  9. "30's Picnic" - 8:40

Personnel

  • Hank Roberts - cello, vocals, jazz-a-phone fiddle
  • Django Bates - piano, synthesizer, tenor horn
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan - percussion, vocals

    • Songs

    1Saturday-Sunday19:05
    2Somewhere Over the Rainbow4:32
    3Only Minutes Left4:49

    References

    Little Motor People Wikipedia
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