marcus miller day

sunday 13th
Listening to marcus miller's 2005 cd 'silver rain', haven't listened to it in a minute and just decided to listen to the first to last songs, its really interesting how you have a cd for a long time and havent really listened to it that much except for stand outs.
I have had it for over 5 years and this is about the first time that i have given it a good good listen and i must say i am rediscovering how much a great little gem of a cd it is.The title track silver rain is such a classic, then followed by his cover of prince's 'girls & boys' and not forgetting marcus's take on stevie wonder's boogie on reggae woman (i think marcus seems to woship at the altar of stevie wonder).
The thing i like about SR is the fact that every track comes with come sort of history to each song and this is captured beautifully in the album's in lay.He also covers songs written by writers as diverse as Duke Ellington (sophisticated lady), jimi hendrix(power of soul)beethoven 's midnight sonata and edgar winter's frankenstein.Featuring on this album are the usual suspects poogie on drums, patches on trumpet. lalah on vocal and vocal samples, dean brown on guitars, roger byams tenor sax, kenny garrett alto sax keys benard wright then guests include kirk whalum, gerald albright,macy gray,gregoire maret and kevin hicks for his operatic chops.
all in all a very very good cd by M2

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