Come on Down!

RELEASE
March 03, 1970
LABEL
Atlantic
GENRES
Jazz, Soul Jazz, Hard Bop

Album Review

The album title and the weird cover portrait of Eddie Harris with an orange substituting for his head refer to the recording locale -- Miami. The rationale might have been to give Miami the same down-home soul appeal that Muscle Shoals and Memphis were enjoying at the time. Certainly Harris got a romping soul/jazz/rock session out of the trip, a bit overloaded on the electric guitar side, but invigorating. Ira Sullivan joins the fracas now and then with some uninhibited trumpet, Donald "Duck" Dunn (from Booker T. & the MG's) is the anchor on bass, and supersessionman Cornell Dupree dominates the guitars. The centerpiece is a long, frantic, rowdy, R&B remake of "Live Right Now" where Harris seems to be jooglin' around on electric sax as part of the rhythm section, and "Fooltish" has a loose swaggering appeal. "Really" finds him soulfully crooning through his electric horn for the first time, and "Why Don't You Quit" builds inexorably to a majestic Echoplex extravaganza. Worth hunting for in the LP bins.
Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Don't You Know Your Future's in Spacehttp://itunes.apple.com/album/come-on-down/id76135775?uo=5
  2. Live Right Nowhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/live-right-now/id76135775?i=76135725&uo=5
  3. Reallyhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/come-on-down/id76135775?uo=5
  4. Nowhere to Gohttp://itunes.apple.com/album/nowhere-to-go/id76135775?i=76135739&uo=5
  5. Fooltishhttp://itunes.apple.com/album/come-on-down/id76135775?uo=5
  6. Why Don't You Quithttp://itunes.apple.com/album/why-dont-you-quit/id76135775?i=76135765&uo=5
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