Internationally acclaimed as one of the "Best Albums of 2009"; a favorite of independent broadcasters from the Heartland of the USA to the soulful streets of London; and beyond! With this, his second recording, as a leader, Tony Bunn has developed a sound and a style that point to a completely new direction for Jazz; one with echoes of a rich past, as it boldly heads toward a glowing future.
Visionary. Extreme Bassist. Inventor. Mathematician. Rocket Scientist. Criminal who aspires to Sainthood. Continuously Regenerative Musical Outlaw. Taoist Sub-master. Jazzman. Rocker. Sexual Healer. Madman!
Tony has always been successful at somehow magically slipping out of the boxes in which others would attempt to confine him. During his first professional tour of duty, as the electric bassist for Sun Ra's Arkestra, he was dubbed one of "Them Freedom Boys" by the Dark Master himself. No truer words were ever spoken. And that comment was to be understood to be not such a good thing --- for freedom lacking discpline results in slavery. Freedom informed by discpline becomes magical life, i.e. LOVE. Since that initiation, truly a trial by fire, Tony has spent his life developing the spiritual and mental discpline necessary to broadcast LOVE throughout this shared existence.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, who began his journey into musicality in the fourth grade, he recalls, "I wanted to play saxophone like Maceo (Parker). I loved his sound with James Brown. However, the only instrument they had in elementary school was the clarinet, so I learned to play that." After gaining modest proficiency on a number of instruments throughout his formative years, he descended to the depths of the bass section, by the end of high school ---- and there he lurks to this day.
* Tony Bunn (basses, keyboards, vocals, whistling)
* Dennis Chambers (drums)
* Arshak Sirunyan (electric piano, keyboards)
* Kevin Walker (keyboards) [on "Pee Wee (Revisited)"]
* Victor Williams (percussion) [on "Pee Wee (Revisited)"]
* Mike Fitzhugh (trumpet, flugelhorn)
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