Michal Urbaniak – Urbanator II (1996)

1. Urbanate The Area No.2 (Urbaniak)
2. Basia (Urbaniak)
3. New Yorker (Urbaniak)
4. Magic (Macdowell)
5. Urbal Tea (Macdowell/Urbaniak)
6. Moody's Mood For Love (Fields/Mchugh/Moody)
7. Anytime, Anywhere (Urbaniak)
8. Mantra (Urbaniak)
9. All Blues (Miles Davis)
10. Hi Ho Silver (Urbaniak)
11. Polak (Urbaniak)

Musicians:
Michał Urbaniak - soprano and tenor sax, talking violin, violin
Jon Dryden - piano and Fender rhodes
Al Macdowell - bass, keyboards, piccolo bass
Rodney Holmes - drums
Tom Browne - flugelhorn, trumpet
Issei Igarashi - trumpet
Ed Hamilton - guitar
Denzil Miller - keyboards
The Six - rap
Todd Snare - drums
Solid - rap
Sharaye White - vocals

If you still remember Michal Urbaniak's great violin fusion from 70-s, just forget it. On this album (twenty years after)he plays some electric violin and sax moments in NY-style lounge jazz. With very dance-floor rhythms, some hip-hop and soul vocals, quite nice funky bass and Latin influenced melodies.

Music is quite high quality pop-funky jazz , and has nothing in common with jazz-rock or any progressive fusion form. Even Michal solos there are more decorative, than musically attractive or interesting. Possibly, product of it's moment, this album is hardly interesting for listening. Not so bad back-up music though. ---snobb, progarchives.com

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