I love it! The first time I heard "the Edwards" I nearly cried from laughing so hard!this was our small way of paying tribute to the great 'Jonathan and Darlene Edwards.
Harry
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I love it! The first time I heard "the Edwards" I nearly cried from laughing so hard!this was our small way of paying tribute to the great 'Jonathan and Darlene Edwards.
One of my favorite Pat metheny albums of all time is New Chautauqua from 1979. I love the song Daybreak. Its amazing that He did all the instrumentation on it one of his BEST Early albums IMO.
One of my favorite Pat metheny albums of all time is New Chautauqua from 1979. I love the song Daybreak. Its amazing that He did all the instrumentation on it one of his BEST Early albums IMO.
dmp Records (dmp = Digital Music Products) itself has an interesting history in that the owner and chief engineer, Tom Jung, pioneered a lot in the realm of digital recording.
I have four or five of Mintzer's, one of the Flim & the BBs, and two by Manfredo Fest. I also have a 3" CD sampler from them, called "A Touch of dmp" which was probably responsible for a couple of those purchases.I have a couple of CDs from that label. One is by Flim & the BB's (Big Notes), the other by trombonists Jim Pugh and Dave Taylor (The Pugh-Taylor Project).
i Had the original vinyl of this when it was first released in 85 ( i wore it out) and later got the CD Version another song from this Harlequin album that i love is" Early AM Attitude"along with" TheNow don't let the opening/title track fool you. While the Brazilian singer/songwriter Ivan Lins is featured on three tracks, the rest of this album is quite the hybrid of instrumental music, featuring classical/electric guitar, MIDI piano and some surprisingly timeless rhythm arrangements, all mixed together on a phenomenal jazz album.
That's Ok Captain. We all have our preferences and tastes. By the way just want to say Hi to you while im on here.Ack! That's one of the few Metheny albums that didn't do anything for me. The title track is okay but I've found the rest of the album a major snooze fest.
Toeknee. You have awesome taste in jazz i have all the albums you posted except the richard elliot and michael franks ones here ( but i have other albums by the latter and in addition to the others i have a majority of the discographies of Klugh. Spyro gyra. Dave grusin .Grover washington jr and As far as Bob James everything from " Bob james one" to Grand piano canyon and all three collaboration cds with Earl Klugh. And many other similar artists. ( thankfully they are all on CD S)
"Ack!"? Have you been watching "MARS ATTACKS!" again?Ack! That's one of the few Metheny albums that didn't do anything for me. The title track is okay but I've found the rest of the album a major snooze fest.
im happy to mention i have much of Rit's discography starting with Main course up until "wes bound" and several fourplay cds wit rit i also much of Dave Grusin's prime GRP CDs along with many others you mentioned. And i admit Touchdown was the first Bob james album i ever owned. ( i remember hearing most of the album being used as test pattern music back in 1981. And the theme from taxi was the dead giveaway to what it was.) But just a few years later at a musicland store i bought the album for $6.47 plus tax. And i wore it out fortunately it came out on cd and i was able to replace almost all my jazz vinyl on disc. And i Still have them. Its like everyday is christmas( from a musical standpoint.)Thanks, bbrmn. Seems that you have quite a few good selections as well! To tell you the truth, I don't have a lot of Spyro Gyra. Just the "Morning Dance" album, along with "Love (and Other Obsessions)" and a hits compilation... and that's good enough for me. As for Grover Washington, Jr., I have mostly the 80s/"Winelight" era albums (the pinnacle "Winelight", "Come Morning", "The Best Is Yet To Come", "Inside Moves", "Time Out of Mind" and a few others that were hit-or-miss). I never could get into the old Motown recordings much, except for his final Motown album "Skylarkin'". Now THAT was an incredible album!
I also have all three Bob James/Earl Klugh collaborations, but the double length "Cool" CD didn't quite grab me the same way that "One on One" and "Two of A Kind" did. Still a good CD though, if for no other reason that there are twice the number of tracks to choose from! I still have quite a bit of Bob James as well (my favorites being - I mean, come on.... Doesn't everybody have a copy of "Touchdown"?, along with "Lucky Seven", "H", "Foxie", "Grand Piano Canyon", among others), all pretty good in their respective ways.
But if I had to pick, I'd have to say that I prefer Earl Klugh's music as a whole... as I've simply listened to Earl Klugh a lot more. I've pretty much got the lion's share of his stuff from "Magic In Your Eyes" (1978) on up through "Peculiar Situation" (1999). I'm missing the silver covered "Solo Guitar" CD, but I think I can live without that one anyway. Some great talent there, but for some reason it just never grabbed me. Same goes for "Late Night Guitar" and "Nightsongs (More Late Night Guitar)". I'm rarely in the mood to hear those lush orchestral arrangements. My favorite Earl Klugh albums are (in no particular order): "Magic In Your Eyes", "Heart String", "Wishful Thinking", Soda Fountain Shuffle", "Life Stories" and "Sudden Burst of Energy".
If you're into a lot of Dave Grusin, you've probably noticed that he recorded the fusion and jazz stuff on some records, movie scores on others (which, although he's better known for, they're not my favorite as a whole). Listen to "Night Lines" or "Sticks And Stones" (with brother Don Grusin), and you'll hear albums which were decidedly heavy on synthesizer. On the flip side, his movie scores ("Cinemagic", "The Firm", "Fabulous Baker Boys", or the Milagro Beanfield War suite on the "Migration" album), you'll hear a much more orchestral sound.
You've also probably noticed that Grusin worked extensively with guitarist Lee Ritenour since the mid 70s, finally joining for the duet on "Harlequin".
Bob James has also worked with Rit on occasion. Bob featured Rit (along with bassist Nathan East and drummer Harvey Mason) on two tracks ("Restoration" and "Just Listen") which would spawn the birth of the group Fourplay. Rit played on the first three albums from Fourplay before bowing out, and coincidentally those three initial releases were never matched on a subsequent Fourplay album, IMHO.
I'm a major Rit fan, and I have his jazz albums (most notably "Stolen Moments", "Wes Bound", "This Is Love"), his fusion albums ("Feel The Night", "Captain Fingers"), his contemporary synthpop/jazz/R&B flavored albums of the 80s ("Earth Run", which featured the digital guitar synthesizer SynthAxe, as well as on "Portrait"), as well as his Brazilian flavored acoustic albums ("Rio", "Festival", "Color Rit") on up to the turn of the century. And of course, his pop/rock albums featuring vocals by Eric Tagg (ironically, "Rit" and "Rit/2", along with "Banded Together", all feature about a good portion of vocals, though Rit doesn't sing them). I have to admit that I've kinda lost interest in recent years, as his music has become a bit rote in the styling. The last release I truly enjoyed was "Smoke N Mirrors" from 2006. However, he's still a very eclectic musician, though, having tried nearly every genre out there with the possible exception of country. Classical, R&B/funk, pop/rock, Brazilian, straightahead jazz... all varied on electric, acoustic, 12 string and classical guitars and occasional guitar synthesizer.
So if you like a myriad of different styles / arrangements for guitar, check him out. I'd bet he's your man. If I had to pick an all-time favorite guitarist from a perspective of diversity in music, Lee Ritenour would be the one. Oh, and by the way... he also wrote, co-arranged and played electric guitar on "Paradise Cove", from Herb Alpert's BLOW YOUR OWN HORN album.