CuBop / UBIQUITY / CBLP006 / US / 2022

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PRESTIGE等のジャズ・レーベルにも作品を残し、ラテン音楽の垣根を打ち破ってきた功労者、プーチョの1972年作品。自身のグループ「THE LATIN SOUL BROTHERS」を従え、濃密でネイティヴなラテン・ジャズ・グルーヴを展開。


プーチョのティンバレスとドラムが織り成す重厚なリズムが最高なカーティス・メドレー「SUPERFLY」は、ソウル・ファンにもマストなトラック。他にもヴァイブの浮遊感と転調するコード展開が美しい「JUDY'S MOODS」等、幅広い層に支持され続ける素晴らしい内容。

A1) Medley: Superfly / Pusherman / Freddie's Dead
A2) Judy's Moods
B1) Oak Hurst Art
B2) S'Cusa S'Cusa (Why)
B3) Don't Mind The Tear's
B4) One More Day



The opening track on 1972's Super Freak is a brilliant, nearly side-long medley of three tracks from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly: the title track, "Pusherman," and, of course, "Freddie's Dead." Heavy, druggy, and psychedelic, with thick organ and wah-wah guitars, the medley sounds more like the psychedelic soul of War or even Funkadelic than the sparkling Latin jazz of Pucho's earlier albums. The rest of Super Freak is a little lighter in tone, but this is still the most groove-oriented and least overtly Latin jazz-oriented of this group's albums, trafficking instead in shuffling grooves like "Oak Hurst's Art" and vibes-led ballads like "Judy's Moods" and "One More Day." Latin jazz purists may balk, but this later became a classic of the '90s acid jazz movement, which some sources date to the U.K. hip-hop group Galliano pinching a sample from this album's version of "Freddie's Dead" for the 1989 single "Frederick Lies Still."