{"id":28909,"date":"2025-03-02T05:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=28909"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T21:25:13","slug":"album-review-the-big-ol-nasty-getdown-repurpose-purpose-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/album-review-the-big-ol-nasty-getdown-repurpose-purpose-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Big Ol&#8217; Nasty Getdown &#8211; Repurpose Purpose Vol. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28910\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/big_ol_nasty_getdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/big_ol_nasty_getdown.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/big_ol_nasty_getdown-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/big_ol_nasty_getdown-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>One of the many qualities that sets jazz \u2013 especially the \u201850s and \u201860s era variants \u2013 apart from rock is the loose-aggregation approach. Rather than coalesce around bands in the traditional sense, jazz musicians wold convene for a particular recording session or live date, do their thing, and then move on. Some of the greatest music in jazz came about that way: witness <i>Kind of Blue<\/i>, Cal Tjader and Stan Getz\u2019s <i>Sextet<\/i> and countless others. In the rock idiom, there have been occasional supergroup outings, but they\u2019re the exception, not the rule.<\/p>\n<p>John Heintz is all about breaking the rules. His funk project\/supergroup is The Big Ol\u2019 Nasty Getdown. Based in Los Angeles and launched in part with the efforts of Asheville-based players from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/yo-mamas-big-fat-booty-band-two-decades-of-deep-groove-funkiness\/\">Yo Mama\u2019s Big Fat Booty Band<\/a>, the collective has brought together a true who\u2019s who of funk. TBONG has just released its fourth platter, <i>Repurpose Purpose \u2013 Vol. 1<\/i>. Featuring another superb roster of big names, it\u2019s a funkfest par excellence.<\/p>\n<p>TBONG\u2019s approach is deceptively simple: a jam mindset applied to studio session work. Such a method only works when the assembled musicians are of the sort who listen; jams can easily turn into sonic trainwrecks. That\u2019s not the case here; the players act as one (so to speak) big ol\u2019 funky organism. Certainly there\u2019s a basic structure to build upon for the vocal-fronted tracks (chief among \u2018em, \u201cSpirit Stain\u201d with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/27\/28662\/\">Fishbone\u2019s Angelo Moore<\/a>), but the spirit of improvisation remains at the heart of the material.<\/p>\n<p><i>Repurpose Purpose<\/i> is a shortish set: seven tracks, two of which are instro mixes of vocal-led tracks \u2013 but the concise quality of the music \u2013 all tracks clocking in between four and five minutes \u2013 keeps things on track. Tasty grooves abound. Swirling and alluring effects adorn the instrumentation. Rubbery bass lines and rock-solid drumming providing the foundation for the funkified flights of fancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many qualities that sets jazz \u2013 especially the \u201850s and \u201860s era variants \u2013 apart from rock is the loose-aggregation approach. 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