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RNCMKG · Post by **RNCMKG** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:38 pm

Hello. I am wondering if you have any suggestions of a decent album or a particular artist featuring Rhodes piano or other E.P.? Of particular interest would be blues, jazz and or R&B/soul oriented stuff.

My question is inspired by some recent threads on MrRay73 and the Learjeff Rhodes soundfont. I love the sounds (...and registered the MrRay 2.2 with soundfonts.it!...) and I'd like to get my hands on some recorded material to educate my ears, and help develop my keyboard chops.

Thanks in advance! RNCMKG

butter · Post by **butter** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:44 pm

Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, etc, etc, etc.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:48 pm

Hi, and welcome to KVR.

I recommend Mr. Ray [Charles] himself, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul. Lots of Rhodes (and Wurli, etc.) out there.

Enjoy your Mr. Ray! And check out ZioKiller's other instrument, ORGANized Trio, if you enjoy the Hammond tonewheel organ sound.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:49 pm

Erf, dup post.

[edit] And I see you're not new to KVR. So, um... welcome to this thread! :-D

RNCMKG · Post by **RNCMKG** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:56 pm

Thanks for the response. These are of course well known names, but do you have any specific album suggestions that feature the piano at least as much as the vocals? Much of the Stevie stuff I have heard (i.e from the radio) features him primarily as a singer. Same for Ray Charles...I picked up an old album of his and it is him singing with big band accompaniment!

I have the Headhunters album from Herbie Hancock that features some interesting rhodes work, but how about some other specific albums? From my younger days I recall the Future Shock album...but I don't think there was much in the way of a rhodes sound!

Thanks again. RNCMKG

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:01 pm

Chick Corea and Return to Forever - Light as a Feather has the most dominant Rhodes presence I've heard on an album. I personally prefer the Rhodes style of Hancock over Corea, but that's just me.

butter · Post by **butter** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:03 pm

Jan Hammer does a lot of Rhodes work on the Mahavishnu Orchestra's first album-The Inner Mounting Flame. Freaking great fusion album as well. It was recorded in 1970 and it sounds like it could have been made last week. Hancock's recent Future 2 Future album is a good one for Rhodes as well.

Shifrin · Post by **Shifrin** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:12 pm

Slide Five's album 'Rhode Trip' has a lot of rhodes playing on it

Shif.

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:13 pm

Who's that new band out now... it's 3 guys - a singer a drummer, and a guy with a electric piano with a laptop at the side?

They were just on SNL, and I've caught bits of their video... I like 'em!

Maybe not 'jazz' per say - but these guys have a pretty unique laidback style that puts me in mind of The Smiths almost. Very good trio IMO.

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:20 pm

Sorry if the first post seemed too beginner-ish. No way to tell how familiar you already were. :-)

Here's an interesting (and possibly kind of obscure?) album that, if memory doesn't completely fail me, has some fairly pleasant EP work in it: Stevie Wonder's soundtrack to the movie "The Secret Life of Plants." Nothing earth-shaking but it's worth listening to if you've never encountered it. Some pretty flashy synth work too (I'm partial to the tracks "Ecclesiastes" and "Ai No Sono").

Darn it, now I've got an impulse to dig that LP out and bring it into Sound Forge and do the pop removal / noise reduction thing and burn it onto CD... must resist urge!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:25 pm

Ah! If you don't mind prog rock with a jazz touch, the intro to "Sound Chaser" by Yes has some whizbang EP work. I can't identify the make; anyone?

This is a song with a message, and that message is "faster moment spent spread tales of change within the sound counting form through rhythm electric freedom"... :-D

cyanogen · Post by **cyanogen** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:28 pm

Steven West wrote:Who's that new band out now... it's 3 guys - a singer a drummer, and a guy with a electric piano with a laptop at the side?

I think they're called Keane.

Another recommendation would be Jamiroquai (e.g. Synkronized, Return of the Space Cowboy, Travelling Without Moving, etc.)

Gridlocked · Post by **Gridlocked** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:28 pm

'Map Of What Is Effortless' - By Telefon Tel Aviv

Quite soulful in a way!

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:32 pm

Gridlocked wrote:Telefon Tel Aviv

Never heard of 'em. Has anyone? *tries to look innocent*

Fette Töle · Post by **Fette Töle** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:50 pm

I got many inspirations from the Cool Keys site:

http://www.contraplex.demon.co.uk/

FT

Albums/artists using Rhodes or E.P.?