In The Year of The Tiger

Fred Ho & The Green Monster Big Band - Year of the Tiger (2011) {Innova 789}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental / Modern Big Band / Creative Orchestra

To approximate the first half of Fred Ho's album Year of the Tiger, it's necessary to imagine the sound that might be created if the members of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra were mixed with the players from Parliament/Funkadelic and set loose on the Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix catalogs. That's right, songs like "Thriller" and "Purple Haze" get severely retrofitted into an aggressive, irreverent jazz-funk style, with harsh, massed horn parts. Sometimes, the sound resembles a couple of high-school marching bands fighting it out on the same football field.

Since Myles Kennedy first mentioned the idea of a solo album back in 2009, fans have been anxiously awaiting what the Alter Bridge frontman would come up with. Now the weight of anticipation has finally been lifted as Kennedy has revealed that his solo debut, Year of the Tiger, will be released on March 9 through Napalm Records.

After being the leader of Harmonia (post Neu! project), the legendary krautrocker Klaus Dinger formed La! Neu? This mid 90's musical excursion is an obvious reference to Neu! and La Düsseldorf. The group released a few albums for Captain Trip Records. Klaus Dinger's La! Neu? practice a positive, pulsating and improvised kraut electronica.
After the brief intro, in which Klaus Dinger's La! Neu? work themselves up into a kind of punk-meets-world music lather courtesy of Bluepoint Underground, Year of the Tiger settles into more familiar territory. The two remaining tracks combine for over an hour of piano and sampler noodling by Dinger cohorts Rembrandt Lensink and Rudiger Elze - Dinger's own drum work is also featured…