Maurice Brown

[Rob C]

I've seen Brown live a couple of times and I think he's pretty great. He's definitely a showman, which fits in with the marketing angles mentioned above--but his music is no joke. At least not when I've seen him.

I did listen to some of his Hip to Bop disc at a store, though, and there was a little too much smoothed-out material for me, like he was making some concessions to try to get some radio play.

Well, if it gets him on the map so he can make some real music on record, that's okay. He's a young guy. Time will tell.

[minew]

As I mentioned in the earlier thread about Brown, I went to see him at Snug and walked out. There was nothing like the playing on the Anderson disc, which I've heard and liked. There were some numbers that crossed the border into smooth, complete with Brown-induced audience hand clapping. Too much for me. There are a lot of solid working local musicians here who don't understand the fuss. They see just another good guy with a lot of clippings. As for me, I prefer our other Chicago import, Ed Petersen.

Edited May 31, 2005 by minew

[Rob C]

As for me, I prefer our other Chicago import, Ed Petersen.

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Ed Peterson is great!

[AllenLowe]

maybe so, but I've never seen a bra with his name on it -

[montg]

I bought his new CD a few months ago. The biggest drawback I thought, was that it was all over the place, stylistically....hard bop on a few cuts, smooooth-sounding on another two, a gimmicky wah wah electronic effect that was way overused on another song, a hip hop inflected song... maybe this makes for a lot of fun live, but on a CD it's way too disjointed for me. The talent is certainly there, it seemed to me, but he could probbly have used a good producer.