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. The album received positive reviews and includes new recordings and samples of several

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musicians with electronic backing. Mocean Worker went on tour to support the effort in 2005.

Reception

Jason MacNeil of

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gave the album a positive review, calling the mixture of artists and styles a "great success", while criticizing a few ideas on the release as incomplete. In ''

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'', Joshua Ostroff wrote that Mocean Worker lived up to his personal legacy of jazz performance via his father and top billing alongside jazz greats sampled on this album. Brian Ferdman of

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wrote that the album has a "beautiful arc", with mixes of several genres of music, summing up: "Every disparate source, solo, and sample fits so well that it’s nearly impossible to tell which instrumentalists are live, dead, or mere by-products of Dorn’s vivid imagination. Finely crafted albums like Enter the MoWo! have become a rarity in today’s world, but Adam Dorn’s impressive effort has resulted in a superb creation than transcends the limitations of an album. Enter the Mowo! is a true work of art and a damn fine one at that." The editorial staff of

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gave the album four out of five stars, with reviewer Joshua Glazer positively positioning the release in jazz history, with its varied references to bop and previous attempts to sample dead musicians on new compositions.

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called it his finest work with deft musicianship. A mixed review from Michael Allen Goldberg of the ''

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'' critiqued the recordings for being unoriginal. John Murph gave a mildly negative review in ''

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'', calling the music kitschy and musty but praising specific tracks and performances.

Track listing

#"Chick a Boom Boom Boom" – 3:55 #"Only the Shadow Knows" – 2:30 #"Right Now" – 4:11 #"Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" – 5:12 #"I'll Take the Woods" – 5:42 #"Salted Fatback" – 4:02 #"Move" – 4:52 #"That's What's Happenin' Tonight" – 3:32 #"On and On" – 3:46 #"Blackbird" – 3:12 #"Float" – 5:15 #"Collection II" – 3:16

Personnel

– vocals, composition,

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Additional musicians *

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on "Salted Fatback" *

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on "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" * Franck Gauthier on "Shamma Lamma Ding Dong" *

Les McCann Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler (2007), ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 448. Oxford University Press. Early life Les McCann was born in ...

on "That's What's Happenin' Tonight" *

Jane Monheit Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977"Jane Monheit." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 33. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2001. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-05-07.) is an American jazz and pop singer. Early life Monheit was b ...

on "Float" *

David "Fathead" Newman David "Fathead" Newman (February 24, 1933 – January 20, 2009) was an American jazz and rhythm-and-blues saxophonist, who made numerous recordings as a session musician and leader, but is best known for his work as a sideman on seminal 1950s and ...

on "Chick a Boom Boom Boom *

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on "I'll Take the Woods" *

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on "Blackbird" Additional personnel * Martin Brumbach – production

References

External links

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