Ron CarterAnything Goes

Label:

Kudu – KU-25

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album

Country:

Canada

Released:

Genre:

Electronic, Jazz

Style:

Jazz-Funk, Disco

Tracklist

A1Anything Goes5:26
A2De Samba5:50
A3Barreta's Theme (Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow)5:05
B1Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)5:12
B2Quarto Azul6:57
B3Big Fro5:07

Companies, etc.

  • Distributed ByMotown Record Corporation

Credits

  • Alto SaxophoneDavid Sanborn, Phil Woods
  • BassRon Carter
  • DrumsJimmy Madison (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B2. B3), Steve Gadd (tracks: A1)
  • Electric PianoDon Grolnick
  • EngineerRudy Van Gelder
  • FluteHubert Laws
  • GuitarEric Gale
  • OrganRichard Tee
  • PercussionArthur Jenkins, George Devens, Ralph MacDonald
  • ProducerCreed Taylor
  • Tenor SaxophoneMichael Brecker
  • TromboneBarry Rogers
  • TrumpetAlan Rubin, Randy Brecker
  • VocalsMaeretha Stewart, Marilyn Jackson, Patti Austin

Notes

Spine:
©℗ 1975, Creed Taylor, Inc.
P749
Printed in U.S.A.

Back cover:
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios
Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer
Recorded June and July, 1975

CTI Records of Canada Ltd.
2372 46 Avenue
Lachine, Quebec

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Label Code (spine): P749
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): RVG-98785-A-RE-13
  • Matrix / Runout: RVG-98785-B-13

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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Anything Goes (LP, Album, Monarch Pressing)KuduKU-25 S1US1975
Anything Goes (Album, LP)KuduKU 25UK1975
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Anything Goes (LP, Album, Stereo)Kudu, CTI RecordsKU 25Germany1975
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Anything Goes (8-Track Cartridge, Album)KuduKU8 25 HTUS1975
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Anything Goes (LP, Album, Promo, Stereo)KuduKU-25 S1US1975

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Reviews

  • RyansGoldenRecords's avatar
    Ron Carter's 'contractual obligation' album, radically different to what me and my dad are used to from one of jazz's most versatile bass players... and not in a good way.

    This seems like a case of Creed Taylor and company telling the boys "hey cats, ol' Mr. Van Gelder's awfully busy right now so he's only got an hour for you guys to run into the studio and just lay down whatever shit comes out of your head. NO! I didn't mean Ornette Coleman shit, I meant... something the masses'll like... clean and fancy. Simple as that. I'm sure you can whip something up quick. Anything goes. How does that sound?"

    And that, my friends, is exactly how this album (and its title) came to be.

    OK... maybe that's a little bit of a stretch to say that's what was coming out of Creed Taylor's mouth those nights when the album was being recorded, but it pretty much sums up what you get here: an ersatz blend of sanitized disco-funk with Stan Getz-esque bossa nova beats in the most hilariously cheesy way conceivable.

    I can't begin to comprehend what kind of fucking drugs everybody involved was on when this was being recorded.

    While Anything Goes is by no means terrible, it's way too kitschy and gimmicky for a musician of Carter's status, and a very far way from essential listening - while upbeat and competently performed the compositions are uniformly bland and don't stand out from one another (well....maybe except "Barreta's Theme").

    And as much as some may cringe at the thought of "The Girl from Ipanema", even the relative tameness of Stan Getz' 1960's bossa nova albums is more exciting than this appropriation - which is little more than a pale imitation.

    So, what is it but a mere curio, a historical lesson in the things that could go wrong when Creed Taylor wants his artists to whip up and rush-release some lazy crap as quickly as possible with as little regard as possible for true jazz aficionados?

    Bottom line: find yourself a copy of Pastels and never look back.

    Oh, and by the way, about the cover art... don't look at him. Paul McCartney's looking away from us on the Sgt. Pepper artwork NOT because he's 'dead', but because as musically agile as he is, he can't stand to listen to Ron Carter.

    Then again, Quincy Jones can't stand to listen to the Beatles either, so what the heck. The whole music world is an upside-down mess... and if you look at the cover of McCartney's Tug of War, then soon you will realize it looks like he can't listen to anything else! That's what I see in his facial expression.

    BUT: next... coming up - Black Eyed Blues, a *beautiful album* by Esther Philips. Recorded and produced by the same crew at CTI/Kudu, no less.

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