new album

diaL M A C E O

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1 - Rabbit's In The Pea Patch
2 - My baby Loves You (guest : James Taylor)
3 - I've Got Work To Do
4 - The Greatest Romance Ever Sold (featuring )
5 - Black Widow (lead : Corey Parker)
6 - Coin Toss (guest : Ani Difranco)
7 - Simply Tooley
8 - Latin Like
9 - The Closer I Get To You
10 - My Love
11 - Homeboy
12 - baby knows (featuring )

Guest engineer : Marcus Miller

Here's the press release for the new album to be released 
in Europe 20th March and in the US 18th April. 

Interview January 2000

"When people talk about legends they mean 'they're done, but boy did they do good' when I think of Maceo Parker I think of legendary funk master and horn player, but not 'legend' in the term that he's done. He's still doing it. And that to me makes a really legendary person" 

Ani DiFranco

Q: What was that like 2 work with the legend (Maceo)?
: One of the highlights of my career! Not only is he the baddest sax player alive 2day, he is a true gentleman"

"I look at entertaining and this whole spectrum of entertainers like a buffet... you go around and choose whatever you feel like at the time... I like it that way where people can pick and choose from the buffet, I'm happy to be part of that buffet. You know you are going to have something to eat"

Maceo Parker

For his latest cd "Dial M-A-C-E-O", Maceo has provided a great buffet of musical talent and brings together a delightful medley of artists.

A few people have been dialling Maceo recently as his appearances both live and recorded indicate - Ani DiFranco (To the Teeth), and ("Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic") two artists with whom he has also been touring.

In return calls Maceo has cooked up some special sounds and provides a menu which includes the Mistress of folk music Ani DiFranco, , and a quite different James from the one we have come to associate with Maceo: James Taylor.

While Maceo's track record speaks for itself, -years of playing with James Brown and George Clinton , creating and re-creating the funky sounds for generation after generation, Maceo's solo career has gone from strength to strength in the last ten years. For his latest album Maceo has now gathered together some of his more recently made friends who share the sheer fun of performing together.

With brand new songs, in some cases written specially for the artist concerned, to a few covers , Maceo's latest is a blend of funky, tight soaring horns, underpinned throughout by his touring band which is as tight as a piece of gum stuck to your shoe. Songs include the sultry "Black Widow" penned by Corey Parker, two songs from one of which is a lyrical instrumental version of 's single "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold" .

True to form and perhaps more than ever Maceo shows off all his sides, so that they come together in a tight cohesive album which will surely rank in years to come as one of his best. This is an album for all Maceo fans, his saxophone is strong and powerful as ever, weaving, jabbing and undercutting, shouting throughout the album,
some sultry flute, some vocal duets... Maceo gives a fresh look at of his music without ever straying from the core we all love. Never veering too far away from what is recognisably Maceo, and how could he? That distinctive horn sound, that groove, that "happy" music is always part of the buffet.

"Dial M-A-C-E-O" stands on the shoulders of the hugely successful "Funkoverload" and reaches out even further.... fresh, strong and powerful so that once again we are left with one overwhelming response: There is only one Maceo!

As said when introducing him at a recent Minneapolis show: "Here's the Indestructible Maceo Parker"

"The double bill seemed disparate at first: Funk Saxophonist Maceo Parker sharing the stage with folkie feminist Ani DiFranco? Ah, but that's how memorable nights of music are made. The two artists had lots in common actually: they are both groundbreakers- Parker for his seminal work with James Brown and George Clinton, DiFranco for her unique sound and leading role as independent record label owner. More to the point they both believe in the unmitigated joy and freedom of the funk, not funk as a musical style per se - though Parker wrote the book on that one- but funk as a rallying cry, as a way to unleash human potential; recognise the problem, deal with it then bump it out the door with a swift shake of the hips.

...he didn't just play songs he played a set of interconnecting grooves where tunes flowed into one another like a deep eddying river of funk...
His stage introduction "Come on Maceo" with every syllable pulled stretched and repeated until his name became synonymous with funk... each parlance was a variation on one big message: give in to the uplifting power of music. his blowing was timelessly on target, with a leanness of thought that was the reduced essence of bebop laid over the skeletal structure of rhythm and blues.... DiFranco and Parker acted like kids and chipped away at the notion of musical boundaries..."

Commercial Appeal Memphis