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Despite its somewhat cheesy name, Sax Across America is a surprisingly understated and pleasant fusion of jazz, instrumental pop, and patriotism. Saxophonist Bruce Abbott, the North Star Jazz Ensemble, and the Hawthorne String Quartet collaborate on a dozen tracks celebrating America and some of its best-known states and cities, infusing the songs with a laid-back but affectionate feeling that is very different than some of the fist-pumping tributes to the U.S. that have arrived recently. While the strings occasionally get a little too sweet from time to time, the performances Abbott and the North Star Ensemble turn in are crisp and restrained, particularly on "Moonlight in Vermont," "America the Beautiful," and "New York State of Mind." Other highlights include "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?," and "America." While it may not be the most musically cutting-edge or loudly patriotic album out there, Sax Across America is still notable for its quiet pride in America and its mellow, affable mood; it's probably one of very few albums equally appropriate as a backdrop for pledging allegiance to the flag or a relaxing dinner. ~ Heather Phares
/The North Star Jazz Ensemble. Bruce Abbott Sax Across America Songs | 1. | America the Beautiful |
| 2. | Moonlight in Vermont |
| 3. | Shenandoah / My Old Kentucky Home |
| 4. | Georgia on My Mind |
| 5. | Wichita Lineman |
| 6. | Old Cape Cod |
| 7. | New York State of Mind |
| 8. | I Left My Heart in San Francisco |
| 9. | Tennessee Waltz |
| 10. | Do You Know the Way to San Jose? |
| 11. | Do Yo Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? |
| 12. | America |
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Sax Across America Music Review Purchase Sax Across America CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Benoit/Freeman Project 2 CD (2004)
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Creatively, David Benoit has had his ups and downs over the years. The pianist/keyboardist has recorded more than his share of forgettable smooth jazz albums, but he has also provided some decent straight-ahead discs that were greatly influenced by Bill Evans (the pianist, not the saxophonist). This 2004 release, however, doesn't fall into either category -- Benoit/Freeman Project 2, a collaboration with guitarist Russ Freeman, isn't straight-ahead acoustic jazz, but it isn't an album of mindless "elevator Muzak" either. For the most part, this CD could be described as "smooth jazz with a brain"; pop considerations are a high priority, but at the same time, jazz considerations (spontaneity and improvisation) are not ignored. Benoit/Freeman Project 2 tends ...
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| | Joe Locascio Close To So Far CD (2002)
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This is New Yorker-transplanted-to-Texas Joe LoCascio's tenth album and his second for the Heart Music label. He is joined by his regular playing companions of bass player John Adams and drummer Tim Solook. Like many of his contemporaries, LoCascio goes with a program comprised entirely of his own compositions. The pianist's writings, for the most part, are direct and unswerving. You don't find many that take side trips away from the basic theme of the tune. This tends to give most of what LoCascio plays a meditative, stream-of-consciousness feel about it such as on "Big Motel." Even the more up-tempo (e.g., "A Goodbye Moment") are straightforward, with no pyrotechnics added. Some reviewers have pigeonholed this piano player as a crossover jazz artist, where he mixes in varying measures of jazz and pop in his music. There is none of that here. This is mainstream jazz, bop, and contemporary jazz blended together to satisfy the appetites of a serious jazz acolyte. He applies an ability to take something from different modes and blend them together to make something meaningful come out the other end. For example, there's the unusual Serge Prokofiev-like opening on "Idiot's Delight," where jagged rhythms play tag with a theme that has a bit of ragtime in it. "In the Quiet of Autumn" becomes a musical sonnet in the deft and able hands of LoCascio. Not forgetting his playing mates, LoCascio allows plenty of room for them to expand mere time-keeping duties. Adams' bass opens with a concentrated, lengthy solo on a poetically titled "And Her Look Touching the Air." All in all, this is a very satisfying 57 minutes of music by an artist who merits being included among the best of his contemporary piano-playing peers. Recommended. ~ Dave Nathan
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| | Die Warzau Convenience CD (2005)
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Nearly a decade (which is about half a dozen lifespans in the electronic music scene) after their last album, 1995's Engine, Die Warzau return with the unsettled and finally rather disappointing Convenience. Much less confrontational than the duo's earlier music, Convenience sounds in large part like a tentative attempt to introduce Die Warzau's sample-happy dance-industrial aesthetic into a world where industrial is entirely yesterday's news, but it's not old enough to have kitschy nostalgia value quite yet. That's precisely the netherworld that this album inhabits as well, unfortunately. While there are some enjoyable moments -- particularly "King of Rock and Roll" (the track that makes plain the largely unexplored connection between glitch and heavy industrial) and the downtempo opener, "Crusaders," which answers the question "What would happen if Skinny Puppy remixed an Air single?" -- too much of the album is devoted to mush like "Kleen," a misguided attempt at a straight synth pop ballad of a type not seen since Ministry's awful debut, With Sympathy. Jim Marcus and Van Christie haven't lost any of their production chops, as the sound is richly three-dimensional and sparkling in a way that few of the other industrial acts could ever manage, but especially after such a long furlough, it's a shame that they didn't have better material to work with. ~ Stewart Mason
Chicago industrial duo Die Warzau purvey a guitar- and sample-heavy version of the form. Van Christie and Jim Marcus debuted in 1988 with Disco Rigido, following that album with 1991's Big Electric Metal Bass Face. Die Warzau returned in 1995 with the album Engine. ...NEARLY 10 YEARS LATER, DIE WARZAU READIES NEW ALBUM Produced in the new Pulse Black Studios, this is the first album released by Die Warzau since 1995's critically acclaimed album ENGINE. The new album is titled CONVENIENCE. CONVENIENCE is raw, noisy and aggressive. ENGINE which mixed styles and genres and help cement Die Warzau's reputation as electronic innovators to be imitated. CONVENIENCE lyrically is self-assured and fascinating from beginning to end; the party recording atmosphere of ENGINE has been met and bested......... Members of Die Warzau worked and participated with; Louis Svitek (Ministry), Mars Williams (The Psychedelic Furs, Liquid Soul), Chris Randall, (Sister Machine Gun), Chris Connelly (Ministry, Pigface), Bill Rieflin, and remixes for Björk, George Clinton, Peter Hook (New Order), KMFDM, Pansy Division, Sister Soliel, Pink Noise Test, Machines of Loving Grace, Gravity Kills.::::::::: Music Guide By the time its third album was released, ...
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