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Go Go Swing Live
Live album by Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers
Released	1986
Recorded	1986
Venue	The Crystal Skate Temple Hills, Maryland
Genre	Go-go swing jazz-funk
Length	61:09
Label	Future Sound Records
Producer	Reo Edwards
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers chronology
Funk Express (1980) Go Go Swing Live (1986) Any Other Way to Go? (1987)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic
ARTISTdirect
musicHound R&B	(4/5)

Go Go Swing Live is a live album recorded and released in 1986 by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers. The album was recorded at the Crystal Skate (in Temple Hills, Maryland) and at the RSVP (a defunct nightclub in Washington, D.C.)

The album consists of go-go renditions of classic jazz and swing songs performed with a go-go beat. The album is especially known for remakes of the calypso song "Run Joe", and the swing songs "Stormy Monday" and "It Don't Mean a Thing". The album was ranked No. 1 as the "Best Album Recorded in D.C." by DCist.

Track listing

Personnel

• Chuck Brown – lead vocals, electric guitar
• Ricardo D. Wellman – drums
• Rowland Smith – congas, backing vocals
• Glenn Ellis – bass guitar, percussion
• Curtis Johnson – keyboards
• John M. Buchannan – keyboards, trombone
• Leroy Fleming – tenor saxophone, backing vocals
• Donald Tillery – trumpet, tambourine, backing vocals

References

1. Hamilton, Andrew. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers: Go Go Swing Live > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
2. "Chuck Brown Album Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
3. Graff, Gary; Freedom du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (1998). "A-Z Guide to R&B Acts: Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers". In Terrell, Tom (ed.). musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 78. ISBN 1-57859-026-4.
4. Thompson, Dave (2001). "Part Four: The New School". Funk: Third Ear - The Essential Listening Companion (1st ed.). San Francisco: BackBeat Books. pp. 297–299. ISBN 0-87930-629-7.
5. Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Charles C. Jr. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop. Billboard Books. p. 252. ISBN 0-8230-7727-6.
6. ^ Nnamdi, Kojo (February 14, 2014). "From Go-Go's Heyday to Today: One Musician's Love Affair With D.C. Music". The Kojo Nnamdi Show. WAMU. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
7. ^ Gopal, Sriram (August 4, 2016). "11 Of The Best Albums Recorded in the D.C. Area". DCist. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.

External links

• Go Go Swing Live at Discogs.com

• 1986 live albums
• Chuck Brown albums
• Live rhythm and blues albums
• Live jazz-funk albums