Funky Skull (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Bill Evans Trio For Pieter de Graaf

For Pieter de Graaf

Manchester jazz-funkers

The strength of Liquid Spirit lies in Porter's songs

It was released on November 16

At the dawn of the new millennium

Funky Skull (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Bill Evans Trio For Pieter de GraafOn his sole album as a leader, bassist Melvin Jackson a veteran of the Eddie Harris band (this album includes two Harris originals) plays with a bow, plucks and plugs his upright bass into a Maestro G 2 filter box, a Boomerang, an Echoplex, and an Ampeg amp. The result is soulful, psychedelic, and of course, funky at once one of the grooviest and most avant garde albums youll ever hear. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180 gram vinyl at Third