Niacin - High Bias (1998) {HDCD Stretch Records} (ft. Chick Corea)
Niacin - High Bias (1998) {HDCD Stretch Records} (ft. Chick Corea)
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© 1998 Stretch Records / Concord | SCD-9017-2
Jazz / Fusion / Jazz Rock
Niacin showed a great deal of promise on its self-titled debut album of 1996, and there were no signs of the infamous sophomore slump on the fusion trio's second album, High Bias. Recalling the '70s experiments of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever and the Billy Cobham/George Duke Band, this exciting CD served as a reminder that the freedom of jazz and the intensity of rock can complement one another in a major way.Personnel: John Novello (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizers); Billy Sheehan (bass); Dennis Chambers (drums).
Niacin must have been quite a learning experience for its bassist Billy Sheehan, whose main pre-Niacin gig had been his hard rock band Mr. Big. When he formed Niacin with organist/keyboardist John Novello and drummer extraordinaire Dennis Chambers in the mid-'90s, Sheehan proved that he had no problem handling jazz's complexity and challenges, and he proves it once again on everything from the urgent "Slapped Silly" and the Cuban-flavored "Montuno" to the churchy "It's the Little Things" and the cerebral "Hang Me Upside Down" (a song contributed by Stretch Records co-owner and onetime RTF leader Chick Corea, who has a nice cameo on keyboards). Another high point of the CD is Weather Report's "Birdland," which Niacin approaches in a rather angular fashion. Those who like their fusion meaty and improvisatory should make a point of obtaining High Bias.
Additional personnel: Chick Corea (Fender Rhodes piano); Rayford Griffin, Pat Torpey, Kenwood Dennard (drums); Alex Acuna (percussion); Lee Sebel (programming).
tracklist:
01. High Bias
02. Birdland
03. Slapped Silly
04. Montuno
05. Revenge
06. Cool to the Touch
07. Darkside
08. It's the Little Things
09. Soul Diversion
10. Who Cares If It's Raining
11. Hang Me Upside Down
Niacin - High Bias (1998) {HDCD Stretch Records} (ft. Chick Corea)
Niacin - High Bias (1998) {HDCD Stretch Records} (ft. Chick Corea)
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Niacin / High Bias
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EAC extraction logfile from 22. March 2009, 19:43
Niacin / High Bias
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S203P Adapter: 4 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 6:06.67 | 0 | 27516
2 | 6:06.67 | 6:34.00 | 27517 | 57066
3 | 12:40.67 | 4:49.00 | 57067 | 78741
4 | 17:29.67 | 6:25.55 | 78742 | 107671
5 | 23:55.47 | 8:15.25 | 107672 | 144821
6 | 32:10.72 | 6:08.45 | 144822 | 172466
7 | 38:19.42 | 4:26.60 | 172467 | 192476
8 | 42:46.27 | 5:27.00 | 192477 | 217001
9 | 48:13.27 | 5:03.65 | 217002 | 239791
10 | 53:17.17 | 4:17.23 | 239792 | 259089
11 | 57:34.40 | 11:30.40 | 259090 | 310879
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