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Omar Sharriff“The Raven”CD/CASS 365
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Buy It Now!
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Omar Sharriff - vocals and piano with bass & drums.
1991 recordings plus 7 cuts from ARH LPs 1067 & 1071.
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Listen to some of the tracks!! (uses RealAudio®) 1. Raven, The 2. Fillmore Street Boogie 3. House Built By The Blues 4. Love Is Just A Fool 5. San Franscisco Can Be Such A Lonely Town 6. Great Balls Of Fire 7. This Is Love 8. Stranded In St. Louis 9. Omar's Boogie 10. Just A Blues 11. Rattler, The 12. Hoodoo Man, The 13. Blue Tumbleweed 14. Suffering With The Lowdown Blues 15. Cold Feeling 16. Jimmy, Is That You? 17. So You Want To Be A Man |
REVIEW “Omar Sharriff is a Texas-born pianist who moved to the San Francisco area in the '60s. A modernist and innovator whose singing shows touches of Mose Allison and Percy Mayfield, he made two excellent albums for Arhoolie in 1972 as Dave Alexander, then changed his name and disappeared from the recording world for twenty years. This CD has seven of his best older cuts and ten new pieces. Sharriff is an interesting pianist, with hints of Latin and jazz in his playing, but he is strongest as a singer and lyricist. He has a unique sound, artistic introspection mixed with big city soul and a rare poetic sensitivity. While he always keeps the rhythm solid and the music firmly grounded in older blues styles, he is clearly a man with ambitions to expand the genre. If he is not always completely successful, it is still a noble mission and his work deserves much wider attention.”(Elijah Wald — Sing Out) |
