GIT IT ALL MANDRILL PLUS

They signed with Polydor and released their eponymous debut album in 1970, displaying the influence of the burgeoning jazz-rock and Latin rock movements in addition to soul and funk. Taking their name from the variety of West African monkey (because of its distinctive, colorful face and well-developed, family-oriented social organization), Mandrill soon added keyboardist Claude 'Coffee' Cave, guitarist Omar Mesa, bassist Bundie Cenac, and drummer Charlie Padro. Ric Wilson had already taken up a career as a cardiologist when the group officially formed the brothers had performed together for quite some time, rehearsing at the beauty salon where their mother worked. Mandrill was formed in Brooklyn in 1968 by brothers Ric Wilson (sax, vocals), Lou Wilson (trumpet, vocals), and Carlos Wilson (trombone, vocals), all of whom were born in Panama and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood by musically inclined parents.

Their freewheeling approach was a definite influence on the Parliament-Funkadelic collective (an early incarnation of which actually served as their opening act), and their grooves have been sampled by numerous hip-hop acts in modern days.

GIT IT ALL MANDRILL PLUS

Mandrill's jam-heavy brand of funk was liberally infused with Latin, Caribbean, and jazz influences, plus blues, psychedelia, African music, and straight-up rock. One of funk's most progressive outfits, Mandrill paid the price for their ambitions in commercial returns - not that they never earned a reputation or an audience, but their expansive, eclectic vision often worked better when given an album's worth of room to roam, rather than being condensed into hit singles. New Worlds / Gettin' In The Mood ‎ (CD, Comp) Harvey Mason / Mandrill - Groovin' You / Stay Tonite ‎ (12', RE)įencewalk (The Anthology) ‎ (2xCD, Comp, RM) Jeff Perry / Mandrill - Love Don't Come No Stranger (Than Yours And Mine) / Too Late ‎ (7') Mandrill / Yvonne Brown - Put Your Money Where The Funk Is / Goin' Down ‎ (12', Promo, W/Lbl) Put Your Money Where The Funk Is 3 versions Mandrill / Arnold McCuller - Echoes In My Mind / Nowhere To Run‎ (12', EP) Having A Love Attack / Don't Stop / Stay Tonite 2 versions Michael Masser & Mandrill - Ali Bombaye (Zaire Chant) / The Greatest Love Of All (Instrumental) 13 versionsĬan You Get It (Suzie Caesar) / Holiday 3 versions Mango Meat / Afrikus Retrospectus 3 versions Git It All / I Refuse To Smile 3 versions Mandrill / Michael Masser / George Benson - Muhammad Ali In 'The Greatest' (Original Soundtrack) 10 versions

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