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In the liner notes to BobBaldwin.com (Orpheus Music/City Sketches), funk-jazz keyboard whiz Bob Baldwin reminds us to enjoy technology rather than allow it to take over our hearts and souls. Musically speaking, BobBaldwin.com is a splendid illustration of his point. Utilizing his synth rack to create busy and often retro-soul textures, Baldwin allows graceful yet punchy melodies to shine through at all times.
Baldwin has a good time with titles, moving from the cool hip-hop of "eSmooth" (which features his trademark high-register, swirling solos), through "Westchester Online" (highlighted by a playful cat-and-mouse game between Dean James' soprano sax and Joey Summerville's bouncy trumpet), and then on to the album's most unusual piece, "Overtime (In the Chatroom)." On the latter piece, as if to make a point about what too much cybertalk can do to one's sensibilities, Baldwin offers no defining melody. Instead he darts in and out of floating, hypnotic atmospheres, employing along the way percussive, avant-garde synth lines, wah-wah guitars, and an occasionally smooth soprano line from Marion Meadows.
Most of the other material is smartly played and very in-the-pocket, whether it's the opening cover of "Never Can Say Goodbye," with crackling guitar passages and harmonies by Chuck Loeb, or it's the brassy party tune "Funkin' For Jamaica," which features trumpeter Tom Browne and the harmonic sax blend of Gerald Albright, Marion Meadows, and Fred Vigdor.
Numerous smooth jazz artists are familiar with or have been trained in the straightahead jazz tradition, but rarely do they bring any of that color to their commercial projects. Generally, conventional industry wisdom dictates focusing on one genre at a time.
--Jonathan Widran, JAZZIZ Magazine Copyright © 2000, Milor Entertainment, Inc.
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