Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Say What
3. Midnight
4. DK#16
5. Days Gone By
6. What's Up B
7. Serpentine Fire
8. Fly High
9. Last Night
10. Come On Up
11. Our Love
12. Funky B

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71444 in Music
• Released on: 2003-07-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Though young jazzer Brian Culbertson's boyish good looks make it tempting to lump him in with Harry Connick, Jr.-like neophytes Michael Buble and Peter Cincotti, this Illinois native is actually an instrumentalist who's been plying his trade since putting out the self-released debut LONG NIGHT OUT.COME ON UP is Culbertson's seventh album, and for this outing, he goes for a funkier sound that harkens back to a childhood spent cutting his teeth on the sounds of early Chicago,Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Tower of Power. Weaving an R&B-flavoured thread throughout these dozen songs, Culbertson cutsloose with a few special guests including saxophonist SteveCole, (the brassy "Say What?"), trumpeter Rick Braun (a sultry "Last Night"), guitarist Norman Brown (the crackling "Come On Up"), and R&B vocalist Rahsaan Patterson (the soulful "Fly High"). The centrepiece of this album turns out to be asinewy instrumental reading of the Earth, Wind & Fire nugget "Serpentine Fire". Despite the lite-jazz designation this album will undoubtedly get when it hits record store bins, COME ON UP is trimmed with enough funky snap to put it beyondthe flavourless stereotype this genre sometimes conjures up.

Customer Reviews

On top form
I have all Brian's CDs - my favourite until now was "Something Bout Love" - but this new CD may well become the new favourite. Every track is great.