Re: pingpong

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 05:41:37 MET DST

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    At 10:52 AM 6/22/00 -0700, lieven gouwy wrote:
    >there's one superb track on the ubiquity comp 'still
    >cookin' that is makin the whole thing really cookin'.
    >the track is called 'bebop props' and made by pin pong
    >feat. kelly huff. anybody knows if there's more of
    >this pingpongboys to find?

    The man behind Ping Pong is a multi-instrumentalist named Shawn Lee, who
    had a project band back around 1994 called the Pacific Jazz Alliance, based
    out of Los Angeles. they had one album, called "Cool Struttin'" which was
    released on Jason "KCRW/Quango/Maverick" Bentley's long-defunkt Planet
    Earth label.
    Aside from Shawn's wretched and excrutiating attempts at singing, it's a
    pretty groovin' record. Funny thing, the liner notes describe this band as
    playing on the "West Coast Scene," but as a longtime follower of Los
    Angeles and San Francisco AJ events, I have never in my life seen one shred
    of evidence of these guys playing live anywhere.

    Anyways, after PJA, Lee produced and sessioned for various AJ-related
    artists (he played percussion on the Solsonics' interlude cuts on Guru's
    "Jazzmataz 2") and moved to London, I believe and even arranged one of
    those "funky drum loops" sample CDs...that's the last I heard of Shawn Lee.

    Elson
     

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