The Philadelphia Expeiment featuring Christian McBride. You old heads need to give it up for these cats. A great tribute to Mr. Grover Washington Jr.
https://youtu.be/75g7bSJ_JVE
Cheers
https://youtu.be/75g7bSJ_JVE
Cheers
Jazz for aficionados
The Philadelphia Expeiment featuring Christian McBride. You old heads need to give it up for these cats. A great tribute to Mr. Grover Washington Jr. https://youtu.be/75g7bSJ_JVE Cheers |
The original “Sugar” IS smoking. One of my favorites in the CTI catalog. I haven’t always been a fan of CTI’s sometimes overproduced studio sound, but that one is a classic. Here’s one by some young guys with a couple of the “old heads” onboard. Bobby Malach has one of the nicest modern tenor sounds of all the young (ish) post-Coltrane tenor guys, but for me it’s trumpeter Brian Lynch that really tears it up on this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSXAamw5Fc4 bluesy, I liked the Philadelphia Project clip, especially “Just The Two Of Us”; McBride sounds great. Had a little trouble finding the magic in “Mr. Magic”. Nice, but for me “Mr. Magic” is so much about the rhythmic groove of the original that the tune kinda gets lost when playing with in such loose way; I kept thinking it was a very long introduction to the tune that never came. Boy does this bring back memories for this old head: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jvdy6khEmA |
Grover was an underrated saxophone player, imo. Often lumped in with the “smooth jazz” saxophone crowd who typically don’t get much respect as “serious” players, he was actually a really good player who could play very sensitively and delicately when he needed to; unlike a lot of the obnoxious (to me) sounding smooth jazz saxophone guys. This is a beautiful and interesting record. His take on some of the most beautiful operatic songs or arias ever written. Very sweet soprano saxophone sound: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTao1tRkis https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdav76y0asY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3of1s4ed4 |
"Desmond Blue" is one of the most beautiful tunes ever recorded, and that includes the cover; that girl very closely resembles my high school honey, including the scarf. Paul Desmond – alto saxophone Albert Richman – French horn (tracks 1-4, 8 & 9) Phil Bodner (tracks 5-7), Robert Doty (track 1), George Marge (track 1), Romeo Penque (tracks 2-9), Stan Webb (tracks 2-4, 8 & 9) – woodwinds Gloria Agostini (tracks 2-9), Eugene Bianco (track 1) – harp Jim Hall – guitar Gene Cherico (track 1), Milt Hinton (tracks 2-9) – bass Connie Kay (track 1), Bobby Thomas (tracks 2-9) – drums Unidentified string section conducted by Bob Prince Jim hall is especially outstanding on this album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT5zGYaUN_Q |