The music won't have you jumping and jiving, because this is the kind ofĬool and sophisticated Jazz you might expect to hear in a salubrious up-market cocktail lounge whilst sipping on a dry martini on Improvisational soloing from the dynamic saxophonist. Rock number with a title which is presumably a reference to Jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton.
It's back to basics next for "You Make My Jelly Roll", a lively Blues. Hippyish 1960's grooviness to this absolutely fabulous music. You can float along on a magic carpet ride of flower-power love and This is the kind of wild and carefree sun-ĭrenched psychedelia that sweet dreams are made of. It's all aboard the Magic Bus now for "Dreams", the stunning highlight of the album. This is exotic music for rocking away to down at theĮgyptian kasbah whilst puffing away on a hookah pipe, or if you're on a tight budget, listening to down at your local Middle. Winter" which has something of a mystical Arabian snake-charmer feel to it.
This Jazz is as cool as an air conditioner on full power! We're migrating southwards now with "Flying South in There's more jumping, jiving and gyrating Jazz-Rock on the way with "Don't Make MeĬry", a wonderful eight long minutes of soaring saxophone, flirtatious flute, hard-driving bass-lines and stunning piano and Rock with an attitude that kicks like a mule. Prelude to a lively outburst of pounding and percussive Jazz-Rock which sounds as hard and solid as stone. There's a pleasantly pastoral fluty opening to "Just Like Stone", which turns out to be a real gem of a song because this is just a Intriguing and mysterious world of Tonton Macoute now and give this curious one-of-a-kind album a listen. Released in 1971 contained seven tracks, and featured an album cover that was just as bizarre as their name. Named after the paramilitary death squad created by "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti in 1959. TONTON MACOUTE were a short-lived British Jazz-Rock band, previously known as Windmill.
This got released on CD by Repertoire Records. Highly recommended to the progheads that seek to deepen their knowledge of early 70's prog rock and looking for unknown gems such as this one. Their music oozes fun and good-natured moods and should please most everyone, even the ones wary of jazz-tinged music, as this is hardly their only inspiration. Their record is full of jazz-inspired prog rock with long instrumental interplay in even longer tracks. The rest of the band consist of Chris Gavin on bass and guitars, Dave Knowles on winds and vocals, Nigel Reveler on drums. Paul French on kbs and vocals is not to be confused with the awesome Pete French singer in ATOMIC ROOSTER and CACTUS and LEAFHOUND.
Why, I am not sure but if that name is original, so is their sole album released on rare and collectable Neon Record (also SPRING and INDIAN SUMMER). They got their names from the Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvallier's brutal presidential guard that was named TONTON MACOUTE. Founded in Newbury, UK in 1971 - Disbanded in 1982