(funk/soul) The Harvey Averne Dozen - Discography - 2 albums (1968-1971), MP3, 192 kbp

1.Youre No Good
2.Think It Over
3.Monday Monday
4.My Dream
5.Wishing And Hoping
6.The Micro Mini
7.Shake Your Money Maker
8.You Mess My Mind Up
9.The Think Drink Theme
10.Make Out
11.The Word
12.Free Advice
Продолжительность 0:33:15

1.Never Learned To Dance
2.Dynamite
3.Girl That I Love
4.I Feel Fine
5.Central Park
6.The Beat Goes On
7.Can You Dig It
8.Accept Me
9.Why Can't We Really Be Free
10.Lullaby From Rosemary's Baby
11.Goin' Out Of My Head
12.Gotta Do My Number
Продолжительность 0:36:09

One of several prominent Jewish Americans in New York's bustling Latin music scene, Harvey Averne first cut his teeth in Catskills clubs. Descending back into New York City as "Arvito and His Latin Rhythms," Averne blossomed into a multi-talented vibraphonist, bandleader, producer and label owner. In spite of his prolific accomplishments, including classic productions for Ray Barretto and Eddie Palmieri — not to mention his own quartet of solo albums — Averne faded from the public consciousness when he retired from active recording in the mid-'70s. A new anthology finally does some justice to his long career, and inspires this sampling of his strongest works in Latin soul, rock and salsa.
Though many artists in the late '60s earnestly searched for the place where Latin rhythms and soul melodies could intersect, few found it. Harvey Averne may have been one of the very few that could both swing salsa fans and get the soul crowd "shaking their money maker." The vibraphonist and bandleader wisely incorporated the most essential elements of R&B while adding Latino influence with salsa-inflected horn vamps and percussion voices otherwise unheard in the soul genre. It is albums like Viva Soul that would define the role of Latino concepts in American pop music for generations to come. That noted, this is a soul record with rice and beans on the side. Congas and compana are spice here, not the main course. Though Averne's vibraphone has a place on the album, it seems to be on the corner of the stage. Having co-written half the tunes in the repertoire along with the record's arranger Marty Sheller, and with a nominal musical role, with maybe eight bars of solo on the whole album, one might wonder whose record this is. Irrespective of the leadership, Viva Soul features some of the highest production quality and most pleasing arrangements of the Latin/soul crossover genre. ~ Evan C. Gutierrez, All Music Guide