Title: Uninteresting party jams that don't hold the listener
Product review: I picked this cd up based on a great review in Jazz Times magazine. The first two tracks are ok, but after that the cd became very repetitive and IMO boring. Each tune has pretty much the same canned drum beat and the bass player hangs on to one note for dear life. Shilts is a pretty good sax player who seems heavily influenced by Maceo Parker, but he's not someone I'd go out of my way to find out more about. None of the tunes stood out as being particulary good (or bad for that matter) although track 4 "Down in the Village" stayed with me because I swear the opening riff is Whitesnake's "Slide It In" (which doesn't surprise since Shilts has played with Jimmy Page, a contemporary of David Coverdale).I recommend passing on this cd unless you're just looking for background music for your next barbecue w/hip-hoppers and folks with some interest in jazz. Instead check out Maceo Parker's "Funk Overload".
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