Name: Jamboree: Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel
Brand: Concord Jazz
SKU: 40338
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Album: Jamboree: Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sly Mongoose (Jamaican Folk Song)
2)	Think Twice
3)	No Woman, No Cry
4)	Look Up
5)	Accompong
6)	You Can See
7)	Big Yellow Taxi
8)	Reggae-Later
9)	Crying
10)	Linstead Market (Jamaican Folk Song)

Album: Jamboree: Monty Alexander's Ivory and Steel
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Sly Mongoose (Jamaican Folk Song)
2)	Think Twice
3)	No Woman, No Cry
4)	Look Up
5)	Accompong
6)	You Can See
7)	Big Yellow Taxi
8)	Reggae-Later
9)	Crying
10)	Linstead Market (Jamaican Folk Song)

Performer Notes

Monty Alexander's Ivory & Steel: Monty Alexander (piano); Bernard Montgomery (electric bass); Marshall Wood (bass); Marvin "Smitty" Smith (drums); Othello Molineaux, Len "Boogsie" Sharpe (steel drums); Robert Thomas Jr. (hand drums).
Recorded at Penny Lane Studios, New York, New York in February & March 1988. Includes liner notes by Monty Alexander.
Pianist Monty Alexander's "Ivory And Steel" group combines together bop-based jazz with Jamaican calypsoes and West Indian rhythms. On this quite enjoyable set, Alexander utilizes both Othello and Len "Boogsie" Sharpe on steel drums, either Marshall Wood or Bernard Montgomery on bass, drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith and the hand drums of Robert Thomas Jr. Alexander contributed four of the rhythmic originals which are joined by some Jamaican folk songs (including "Sly Mangoose"), Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" and a couple of obscurities. The accessible results are often memorable. ~ Scott Yanow