Frank Gambale - Thunder From Down Under (rel.1990)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Frank Gambale Title Thunder From Down Under Length 58:17 Discs: 1 Tracks: 12 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label GRP Cat. Number 3321 Style General Jazz Rating

Track list

01 Humid Being 05:19 02 Faster Than An Arrow 04:37 03 Samba Di Somewhere 05:57 04 Kuranda 04:56 05 Obsessed For Life 04:13 06 Leave Ozone Alone 05:59 07 The Land Of Wonder 05:04 08 Obrigado Fukuoka 05:00 09 Robo-Roo 05:40 10 Forgotten But Not Gone 05:15 11 MamboJambo 04:50 12 One Not Two 01:27

Notes

AMG Review (3): As promising as Frank Gambale's work with Chick Corea's Elektric Band was, his first sessions on his own weren't remarkable — generally decent, but not remarkable. While Thunder from Down Under isn't in a class with Gambale's accomplishments under Corea's leadership, the jazz-rock-pop date has its strong points — which range from "Samba de Somewhere" (a confident piece featuring Corea on electric keyboards) to the insistent "Humid Beings" to the pensive "Mamojambo." The Brazilian-influenced numbers "Obrigado Fukuoka" and "The Land of Nowhere" are pleasant enough, but never really take off. Quite often, Gambale fails to go that extra mile as he did with the Elektric Band. Switching from fusion guitarist to pop/rock singer on such forgettable material as "Obsessed with Life" and "Faster than an Arrow," Gambale sounds like a poor man's Sting. — Alex Henderson