Fred Wells Discography of CDs

Fred Wells albums One of the greatest groups in hip-hop history, Public Enemy emerged in the mid-1980s determined to take rap in a bold new direction. P.E.'s sound channeled elements of rock, funk, and soul through the conduit of the Bomb Squad's dense, inventive--and sometimes avant-garde--production techniques. While Chuck D ...

Fred Wells songs APOCALYPSE '91-THE ENEMY STRIKES BLACK finds Strong Island's finest plying their raucous, angry trade once again, as unapologetic as ever. Their place in rap history was long secured by 1991, but the trio doesn't waste a second resting on its laurels--the album's opening salvo, "Lost At Birth" ...

Fred Wells music CDs As fine an example of applying improvisational Elan to R&B/soul idiom as you can find in the 80s. David Murray, Arthur Blythe, and du Daro stay in the groove and take it to the bridge. ~ Ron Wynn Recorded at Media Sound, New York, New York in November ...

Fred Wells CD discography James Chance & The Contortions: James Chance; Jerry Agony, Nic North, Al McDowell (bass guitar); Patrick Geoffrois, Lorenzo Wyche, Fred Wells, Richie Harrison, Anya Phillips. Recorded in June of 1980, Soul Exorcism proves that jazz, funk, experimental, and new wave make quite an intoxicating mix when perfected. James ...

Fred Wells albums Originally released via a French label in 1980 soon after its recording, and getting a long overdue domestic issue in 2004 as part of the ZE label's reactivation, Paris 1980 Live Aux Bains Douches acts as a counterpart to the ROIR Live in New York/White Cannibal set, ...

Fred Wells discography A rather disappointing follow-up to the inspired Plays J.B. ~ Ron Wynn Recorded at Skyline Studios, New York, New York in August 1990. Personnel: Fred Wells (vocals, guitar); Andy Bey (vocals); Brandon Ross (guitar); Sam Furnace (flute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); George Adams, Booker T. Williams (tenor saxophone); Edward ...

Fred Wells CD discography For Off White, James Chance, a veteran of New York's avant-garde no wave scene, recast his seminal band the Contortions as a parody of a soul band, albeit one incorporating the rhythms of disco and funk rather than R&B. Thus, Chance became James White (as a nod ...

Fred Wells music CDs Cameo never recorded a bad album, but it did record some uneven ones. One such LP was 1978's Ugly Ego, which was generally decent but fell short of the excellence of Cameo's superb debut album, Cardiac Arrest. But if Ugly Ego led some people to believe that ...

Fred Wells discography Recorded in June of 1980, Soul Exorcism proves that jazz, funk, experimental, and new wave make quite an intoxicating mix when perfected. James Chance sums up the proceedings perfectly in the liner notes, where he states that the music perfectly reveals the essence and soul ...