Herbie Mann was awesome 2009-10-30

Reviewer: Nick Pusloskie

I saw Herbie in NY in the 70s at Carnegie Hall. Wow. Just wow. And I have tried to get all of his music on CD. When I want to relax, stick Herbie in the CD player and all worries slip away.

A GEM, a true treasure 2008-05-01

Reviewer: Bill Board

TRY to do the impossible and just tune out the fact that Herbie Mann was responsible for that blasphemous "Hi Jack" thing during the depths of the disco phase in the late seventies. This remarkable album was recorded in 1970, at/with Muscle Shoals. You know all the Shoals alumni, they're all here on the record, and, funny, they don't sound a'TALL like they did with Wilson Pickett - which is NOT to be interpreted as a "slap," they're just displaying what consumate, remarkable musicians they are. If, for nothing else though, track #5, where Herbie tears into the Beatles' "Come Together" - oh, man, just dig how future Weather Report bassist Miroslav Vitous locks in with Shoals' own bassist-extraordinare David Hood - this is the only, I mean the ONLY time where a Beatles' song has been "covered" by another artist, and the new bass part isn't an insult to Paul McCartney.