Average White Band, Funk/Soul, Scotland

"Average White Band" (conhecida também como "AWB") é uma banda escocesa de funk, soul e R&B que teve uma série de sucessos entre 1974 e 1980. Eles são mais conhecidos por seus

milhões de vendas com a faixa instrumental "Pick Up the Pieces", e seus álbuns "AWB" de 1974 e "Cut The Cake" de 1975. O nome da banda foi inicialmente proposto por "Bonnie Bramlett". Eles influenciaram outros, tais como "Beastie Boys", "TLC", "The Beatnuts", "Too Short", "Ice Cube", "Eric B. & Rakim", "Nas", "A Tribe Called Quest" e até mesmo "Arrested Development".

"AWB" foi formada no início de 1972 por "Alan Gorrie" e "Malcolm Molly Duncan"(Molly), com "Onnie McIntyre", "Michael Rosen (trompete)", "Roger Ball", e "Robbie McIntosh", nessa formação original também se juntou "Hamish Stuart". "Rosen. Duncan e Ball", carinhosamente conhecidos como "The Dundee Horns", estudaram juntos no "Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art" (que agora faz parte da Universidade de Dundee), e foram anteriormente membros da banda prog "Mogul Thrash". "Gorrie" e "McIntyre" tinham sido membros da banda prog "Forever More". "McIntyre" e "McIntosh" foram usados ​​como músicos convidados na gravação de "My Ding-a-Ling" de "Chuck Berry".

 "AWB" é funk, soul e R&B, mas os músicos tiveram uma história anterior em bandas progressivas como "Mogul Thrash" e "Forever More" e sempre serão bons instrumentistas, independente do gênero em si, pois boa musica é boa musica

e é por isso que eu aqui recomendo. 

Eles voltaram a ativa

(40 anos após a sua formação).

DISCOGRAFIA:

• Álbuns de estúdio

1973 Show Your Hand
1974 AWB
1975 Cut the Cake
1976 Soul Searching
1977 Benny & Us
1978 Warmer Communications
1979 Feel No Fret
1980 Shine
1982 Cupid's In Fashion
1989 Aftershock
1997 Soul Tattoo
2003 Living In Colour

• Álbuns ao vivos

1976 Person To Person
1999 Face To Face
2006 Soul & The City
2009 Times Squared

• Compilações

1980 Volume VIII
1994 Let's Go Round Again
2005 Greatest & Latest

• Singles

1974 "Pick Up The Pieces"
1975 "Cut The Cake"
"If I Ever Lose This Heaven"
"School Boy Crush"
1976 "Queen Of My Soul"
"A Love Of Your Own"
1977 "Cloudy"
"Get It Up"
1978 "Your Love Is A Miracle"
1979 "Walk On By"
"When Will You Be Mine?"
1980 "Let's Go Round Again"
"For You For Love"

1994 "Let's Go Round Again" (remix) 

MAIS INFORMAÇÕES:
Site Oficial
Wikipedia

Show Your Hand 1973

FAIXAS:

01. The Jugglers  04:51

02. This World Has Music  05:58

03. Twilight Zone  05:28

04. Put It Where You Want It  05:16

05. Show Your Hand  04:29

06. Back In '67  04:12

07. Reach Out  04:04

08. T.L.C.  08:06

09. Reach Out (First Version)  03:43

10. The Jugglers (First Version)  04:05

11. Back In '67 (First Version)  04:04

12. How Can You Go Home  03:05

Total Time: 57:35

MEMBROS:

Alan Gorrie – bass, guitar, vocals

Hamish Stuart – bass, guitar, vocals

Roger Ball – keyboards, alto saxophone, vocals

Malcolm Duncan – tenor saxophone, vocals

Onnie McIntyre – guitar, vocals

Robbie McIntosh – drums, percussion

AWB 1974

FAIXAS:

01. You Got It  03:36

02. Got the Love  03:53

03. Pick Up the Pieces  04:00

04. Person to Person  03:41

05. Work to Do  04:25

06. Nothing You Can Do  04:11

07. Just Wanna Love You Tonight  04:00

08. Keepin' It to Myself  04:03

09. I Just Can't Give You Up  03:33

10. There's Always Someone Waiting  05:41

11. Pick Up the Pieces [Atlantic Family Live at Montreux  07:09

Total Time: 49:28

MEMBROS:

-Alan Gorrie – lead vocals (on "Keepin' It To Myself" and "There's Always Someone Waiting"), co-lead vocals (on "You Got It", "Work To Do", "Nothing You Can Do", and "Just Wanna Love You Tonight"), background vocals, bass, guitar (on "You Got It")

-Hamish Stuart – lead vocals (on "Got The Love", "Person To Person", and "I Just Can't Give You Up"), co-lead vocals (on "You Got It", "Work To Do", "Nothing You Can Do", and "Just Wanna Love You Tonight"), background vocals, lead guitar, bass (on "You Got It")

-Roger Ball – keyboards, alto & baritone saxophones

-Malcolm (Molly) Duncan – tenor saxophone

-Onnie McIntyre – background vocals, guitar, guitar solo on "Work To Do"

-Robbie McIntosh – drums, percussion

CONVIDADOS:

Ralph MacDonald – congas, percussion

Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone

Randy Brecker – trumpet

Marvin Stamm – trumpet

Mel Davis – trumpet

Glenn Ferris – trombone

Ken Bichel – mellotron (on "Just Wanna Love You Tonight")[5]

OUTROS (Live at Montreux bonus track)

Sonny Fortune - alto saxophone

Jaroslav Jakubovic - baritone saxophone

David "Fathead" Newman - alto saxophone

Dick Morrissey - tenor saxophone

Herbie Mann - flute

Don Ellis - trumpet

Lew Soloff - trumpet

Gil Rathel - trumpet

Barry Rogers - trombone

Alan Kaplan - trombone

Jim Mullen - guitar

Richard Tee - electric piano

Raphael Cruz - percussion

Sammy Figueroa - percussion

PRODUÇÃO:

Gene Paul - mixing, engineering (NYC)

Lewis Hahn - engineering (NYC)

Karl Richardson - engineering (Miami)

Steve Klein - engineering (Miami)

Ron Albert - engineering (Miami)

Howard Albert - engineering (Miami)

Jimmy Douglass - engineering (additional recording)

Bobby Warner - engineering (additional recording)

Dennis King - mastering engineer

Arif Mardin - production, mixing

Alan Pariser - direction

Alan Gorrie - logo concept

Tim Bruckner - front cover drawing

Barry Feinstein - design & photography

Cut The Cake 1975

FAIXAS:

01. Cut The Cake  04:04

 02. School Boy Crush  04:58

 03. It's A Mystery  03:56

 04. Groovin' The Night Away  03:45

 05. If I Ever Lose This Heaven  05:03

 06. Why  04:05

 07. High Flyin' Woman  03:48

 08. Cloudy  04:22

 09. How Sweet Can You Get  04:00

 10. When They Bring Down The Curtain  04:43

Total Time: 42:54

MEMBROS:

Alan Gorrie – vocals, bass, guitar (on "Cut the Cake" and "School Boy Crush")

Hamish Stuart – vocals, guitar, bass (on "Cut the Cake" and "School Boy Crush")

Roger Ball – keyboards, synthesizer, alto & baritone saxophones, arranger (Dundee horns)

Malcolm Duncan – tenor saxophone

Onnie McIntyre – guitar

Steve Ferrone – drums, percussion

CONVIDADO:

Ray Barretto – congas (on "It's a Mystery" and "When They Bring Down the Curtain")