LYNWOOD SLIM& THE IGOR PRADO BAND "BRAZILAN KICKS" Source: Rock Times.de Date: 02/2011 Writer: Joachim ‘Joe’ Brookes

Often summit ends with no satisfactory results, if there ever are any. Rumgestocher is that if everyone pulls together not pull. Harper Lynwood Slim and Igor Prado Band , one of the leading combos, when the blues of the forties or fifties going to have, "Brazilian kick" shares made for and as a guest pianist Donny Nichilo in the Guidon Studios, Sao Paulo or Clear Lake Audio, North Carolina with him.

Lynwood Slim was playing first trumpet, then moved with fifteen years for Harp. In addition to a number of albums under his own name he was as a session musician for other things in RL Burnside , Dave Specter , RJ Mischo , Kid Ramos and other label mates such as Mannish Boys , Candye Kane , Bobby Jones and Mike Zito active. He also has earned a reputation as a producer. Together with Jerry Hall, the label he founded in 1998 and 2000 Pacific Blue Recording Company was followed by World Wide Wood. Mid-seventies he moved from California to Minneapolis, where he was front man of the Lynwood Slim Band . Then he moved to Chicago, where he was in Dave Specter's group played and finally joined the circle with the return to Southern California.

Igor Prado has been playing the guitar as a self-taught and taught with his band, he favors the Blues in the subgroups Rhythm & Blues, Jump Blues, Swing Blues and varieties of the West Coast Blues. The 12-stroke engine is always in the tank and Harper, together with the musicians to make the "Brazilian kick" even more than the aforementioned.

James Brown is unfortunately already passed away, but if the first number of the disk is running, then transmits the Sun so strong that it says "Shake It Baby" is a Brown song. The piece is from Amos Blakemore and Buddy Guy . Here sings Igor Prado the only time man has the fiery soul in his voice. Gigantic! Lynwood Slim blows the flute and Denilson Martins' various saxophones produce a hot horn section. Super, this opening. From "Is It True" takes Lynwood Slim on vocals and on the track we are already in the middle and there. It swings and grooves wonderfully relaxed. Left-handed Prado skin leisurely out a solo pianist and Nichilo also has what on the box. Holzblasabteilung in the background, the song of the one-man grand and filled with such music, the tension grows.

With "Blood Shot Eyes" takes the matter up speed and we hear wonderful play Jump Blues. In the center of the track is allowed Martins great freedom in Solo, his fills are a real beauty and already have big-band character. "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" a skin completely from the slippers. Unbelievable that this kind of jazz and blues with a little Gypsy feeling is still played at all and also very well received. Hell, now is the speed but almost to the red zone. Jump Blues in the speed of light. On his guitar, there is certainly no collar and no string, the Prado was not used here. "Blue Bop" was written by him and of course not in this instrumental already mentioned Martin's not missing.

"Little Girl" is a cool slow blues song with lots of content from the Windy City and Lynwood Slim shows what he is capable of the little instrument on. Once again you can feel this relaxed atmosphere to below the skin. Long does the group not to the rest stop on. With "Little Girl" threaded the "Brazilian kick" vehicle without a problem the flow of traffic into: "I Sat And Cried." What's going on? It could be joy precaution, the handkerchief ready to submit. With "Maybe Someday" artists take exactly the right time the bulls eye. On wafer thin ice band is blues-jazz or jazz-blues in the style of Big celebrated. Who falls for that is an a? Maybe Duke Ellington or Benny Goodman . A brilliant performance!

Then follows with "Bill's Chance" still such a thing, but in the fleet and delivery again with a lot of Martin’s saxophone. The man can not get enough.

Although the once grooving "The Comeback" and the Lynwood Slim -Jam "Going To Mona Lisa's" not specifically described Harp, one has to "Brazilian kick" an excellent album in my hands. Blues and the link between a 12-stroke as well as jazz Jump is already an eternity. Just as there Lynwood Slim with the Igor Prado Band practice, there are no dust grains on their music.