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DON CUNNINGHAM GROUP 1965 Exclusive LP Something for Everyone Cover: N/A Album cover not included Record: Visual VG Plays strong VG to VG+ DON CUNNINGHAM GROUP Something for Everyone Extremely rare 1965 original (only 500 pressed) much sought-after, this offering is for the vinyl LP record only. Cover Condition: N/A, Album cover not includedVinyl Condition: Visual VG, Plays strong VG to VG+ See Item Specifics section above for additional details( Tracks:A1 Angelina A2 I'm Your Slave A3 Quiet Village A4 Tabu B1 Manha De Carnival B2 Sylvie B3 Samba De Orpheu Credits▼Bass – John MixonBird Calls – Don Cunningham, Manny QuinteroBongos – Don CunninghamCello – John MixonChimes – Marion MillerCongas – Don CunninghamDrums – Manny QuinteroMarimba – Don CunninghamOrchestra Bells – Marion MillerPiano – Marion MillerSaxophone – Don CunninghamSteel Drums – Don CunninghamTimbales – Don Cunningham, Manny QuinteroTree Bells – Don CunninghamVibraphone – Don CunninghamVocals – Don CunninghamWood Logs – Don CunninghamReview by Scott Yanow This very obscure set by the Don Cunningham Quartet was originally sold only at the St. Louis Playboy Club at the time of its release in 1965 and only 500 copies of the original Lp were made. The four players are obscure but talented and the music, which includes a few ballad vocals by Cunningham, his catchy singing on "Angelina" and some infectious Latin jazz instrumentals, deserved to be more widely heard. The playing time is brief but most of the performances are memorable in their own way. Cunningham proves to be quite versatile, playing vibes like Cal Tjader, singing in a couple different styles and also being heard on tenor sax, marimbas, steel drum and a variety of percussion instruments. on Cunningham�s record arrives with the sort of history that sells itself. The multi-instrumentalist and avowed Les Baxter aficionado had a resume that included sessions with Esquivel and three and a half years touring the world with Johnny Mathis. Fresh from the Mathis gig, in 1965 he put together a quartet for a gig at the St. Louis Playboy Club. Instead of playing the sort of cocktail jazz that one would usually expect to hear at such an establishment, they spiked the music with exotica, calypso, and the then newly-emergent bossa nova sound. They gained just enough of a following for them to press 500 copies of an LP to sell from the bandstand. The group split up in 1968, and that was almost the end of the story. However, �Tabu,� a track from that LP, became a cult hit with jazz-dance DJs over 30 years later. Finally, after DJs and mere mortals alike prayed in vain to the goddesses of vinyl to send them a copy of the now impossibly-rare album, reissue specialists Luv N�Haight have bestowed mercy upon us all by issuing it on CD. Joined by a piano trio, Don Cunningham plays a truly impressive arsenal of percussion instruments, takes an occasional vocal, and also blows sax. Something For Everyone strives to live up to its title by dipping into many different styles of music, but is at its best on the two tracks of straight-up exotica: �Tabu� and �Quiet Village.� Both tracks are up-tempo numbers that also show the influence of the Ramsey Lewis Trio�s funky jazz, but with the crucial addition of vibes. �Quiet Village� is a Les Baxter composition that became the exotica standard after Martin Denny scored a national hit with his cover version. And while Cunningham�s �Quiet Village� retains the birdcalls and melodic trade-offs between piano and vibes that made Denny�s version so memorable, he also adds his own stamp through the increase of tempo and rhythmic variations, making the song closer to a cha-cha than the languid pace of the Denny version. �Tabu,� the track that earned the enthusiasm of those DJs, shifts from an atmospheric intro and outro for flute and boobams to a funky main theme for vibes to a solo for timbales... read more

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