Funky Snakefoot

by Alphonze Mouzon

Funky Snakefoot cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1974
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:06
  • Community rating: 3.09/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Former Weather Report drummer Alphonze Mouzon steps out with an explosively energetic, synthesizer-heavy jazz-funk masterpiece on the Blue Note label. Backed by an all-star fusion ensemble, the album features relentlessly complex drum breaks and deep, infectious electric basslines, cementing Mouzon as one of the premier rhythmic innovators of the 1970s.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion

Tracklist

  1. I've Given You My Love (4:46)
  2. You Don't Know How Much I Love You (4:44)
  3. I Gotta Have You (2:49)
  4. My Life Is So Blue (4:39)
  5. Funky Snakefoot (3:45)
  6. My Little Rousebud (2:03)
  7. A Permanent Love (4:24)
  8. The Beggar (3:17)
  9. Oh Yes I Do (4:36)
  10. Tara, Tara (3:27)
  11. Where I'm Drumming From (1:22)
  12. Ism (3:08)

Credits

  • Alphonse Mouzon - primary artist, drums, arranged by, conductor, organ, piano [tack], synthesizer, vocals, written-by
  • Gary King - bass
  • Harry Whitaker - clavinet, piano
  • Ray Armando - congas, bongos
  • Leon Pendarvis - electric piano, organ
  • Mike Mandel - electric piano, programmed by [synthesizer]
  • Richard Resnicoff - guitar
  • Mark Horowitz - pedal steel guitar, banjo

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