Positive Energy

Positive Energy

ASIN: B000067F79

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
The follow-up to Steve Oliver's award-nominated debut album, "Positive Energy" takes a cue from Steve's enlightening and energetic persona with exciting Smooth Jazz and Instrumental Pop nuggets that feature Steve's unique style of vocalese and guitar work. Steve's blend of acoustic guitar in the style of Peter White fuses with his one-of-a-kind vocal sounds and scats to create a truly memorable experience. On "Positive Energy," Steve delves deeper into his passions for Latin and R&B music, and incorporates his trademark and crowd-pleasing wordless vocals into each of the 12 original tracks. Together, with Steve's dynamic band and a great cast of special guests, including Spyro Gyra keyboardist and co-founder Tom Schuman, bass phenom Brian Bromberg, saxophonist and labelmate Jeff Kashiwa, and saxophonist Brandon Fields, the elements are in line truly to create his best work yet.

His 1999 debut "First View" was nominated for an AFIM (Association For Independent Music) Indie Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Recording. The album earned Steve the distinction of "Debut Artist of the Year" from Smooth Jazz News.

Positive Energy,Steve Oliver,Native Language,Contemporary Jazz,Jazz,Jazz Music,Jazz-Pop,Pop,Smooth Jazz

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Positive Energy

A Star is Rising

Positively Love Positive Energy!

steve is good.

Brilliant,Masterful,Iam jumping for Joy!WOW!

Positive Energy
Steve Oliver
Manufacturer: Native Language
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000067F79
Release Date: 2002-06-11

Tracks:

High Noon
Positive Energy
Right Direction
Ocean Blue
Festevo
Show You Love
Day's End
Horizon
Mr. Hipster
Come On Home
Horizon (reprise)
Show You Love (instrumental version bonus track)

Album Description

The follow-up to Steve Oliver's award-nominated debut album, "Positive Energy" takes a cue from Steve's enlightening and energetic persona with exciting Smooth Jazz and Instrumental Pop nuggets that feature Steve's unique style of vocalese and guitar work. Steve's blend of acoustic guitar in the style of Peter White fuses with his one-of-a-kind vocal sounds and scats to create a truly memorable experience. On "Positive Energy," Steve delves deeper into his passions for Latin and R&B music, and incorporates his trademark and crowd-pleasing wordless vocals into each of the 12 original tracks. Together, with Steve's dynamic band and a great cast of special guests, including Spyro Gyra keyboardist and co-founder Tom Schuman, bass phenom Brian Bromberg, saxophonist and labelmate Jeff Kashiwa, and saxophonist Brandon Fields, the elements are in line truly to create his best work yet.

Customer Reviews:

Positive Energy.......2007-03-26

This is great for my long drive into work. No more "road rage" A very soothing listen.

A Star is Rising.......2003-07-24

I had never heard of Steve Oliver before he came to Harrisburg, Pa., as part of a musicfest along the river. Within minutes of listening, I was hooked. What a fresh sound! It's smooth jazz with a Latin twist, a little funk, a hint of George Benson, a dose of Al Jarreau-like instrument impersonation, some old-jazz scatting and some beautiful sounds that I can't even label. Steve's voice has tremendous range and versatility. His guitar-playing is beyond a talent -- it's a gift. I've never heard quite the sound and style he's come up with.
Needless to say, I immediately ordered Steve's second album, "Positive Energy," and it is fantastic -- one of the best collections I've heard in years. There's not a weak cut out of 12. I can't think of any other album I can say that about. The title cut is great, but I dare anyone to listen to "Show You Love" without tapping his/her feet.
If this young fellow doesn't become a star, it'll be hard to believe. I'm going to do my part by ordering his first album, "First View," right now and watching for everything new he comes out with. I should also mention that I got to briefly talk to Steve after his hard-working Harrisburg performance and found him to be kind and humble. Can you tell I'm sold?

Positively Love Positive Energy!.......2003-03-14

Do you like contemporary jazz guitar? Do you love it? Then you'll positively love this CD. One of the best contemporary jazz guitar featured CD's I've heard all year. And, if you're like me and you check out the liner notes, you'll see that Steve O has some very talented players backing him up:Will Donato, Steve Reid, Jeff Kashiwa, Dave Kochanski, Tony Guerrero, Brandon Fields, and Tom Schuman. Most of the tracks are uptempo, including the radio cut "High Noon", the title track "Positive Energy", and the Tom Schuman featured "Festivo". The slower tracks are smooth and mellow, ("Horizon" and "Ocean Blue") without having the snooze factor found in most smooth jazz radio friendly songs. Add this CD to your collection. You can thank me later.

steve is good........2003-02-12

this is real music. he is a real artist. i like him.
you ought to buy this CD. really.

Brilliant,Masterful,Iam jumping for Joy!WOW!.......2003-01-18

Ladies and gentlemen,Iam dancing,jumping,shouting,smiling,totally overwhelm with joy,happiness and positive energy.Who is this guy,i have never heard of him before until listening to my smooth jazz station.I literally drove miles to find his cd...then of course i place it into my audiophile system and WOW..iam jumping out my seat banging my head into my 14feet ceiling.I have since them played this cd in 3 different cd players to fully enjoy every aspect of its raw beauty.For the record,his name is STEVE OLIVER,as an authority on this type of music,i insist that you find this album NOW.

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Walking On Sunshine
Scooter Lee
Manufacturer: Scootway / Universal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music

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General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

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Scooter Lee - More Of The Best
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Test of Time

ASIN: B0006MA32C
Release Date: 2004-10-01

Tracks:

Walking On Sunshine
Seacruise
Show You How To Zydeco
I Feel Lucky
Stand By Me
Pretend
Why Me
Sweet Sweet Smile
634-5789 (that's my #)
At The Hop
I Only Want To Be With You
To Sir With Love
My Guy
Waltz Across Texas
Oh Lonesome Me
This Love Of Ours
Evil Girl
Locomotion
Down At The Twist & Shout
Sweet Home New Orleans
We Are Family

Album Description

The Leading Artist of Country Dance Music brings you her 4th Compilation of some of the greatest dance music for the dance floor. It's 21 Songs that will keep you on the floor with "sure fire" floor fillers. This CD was created to raise funds for the National Nonprofit Dancing For The Dream which raises money to fund research on the benefits of line dancing in those over the age of 50. Some great new line dances have emerged and you can find them all on Scooter's website.

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Life In Balance Throws A Dance Party

Star
Life in Balance
Manufacturer: Good Dogs Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

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Deeper

ASIN: B00024NX4O
Release Date: 2004-03-27

Tracks:

United Dream States
Viburnum
Calibrate
Dimensional Change
Prowl
Cyber Tribal
Flux
Opening
Orbit of Venus
Sex On Planet X
Ringo's Star

Album Description

Experience Dimensional Change. Life In Balance's new CD, "Star", features the high frequency Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls and a big dose of electronics and drums with Japanese Shakuhachi, Bansuri and concert flutes. This is music for active listening and movement. "Star" is for waking up.... politically - environmentally - spiritually. "Star" utilizes not only the pure tones of Classic Quartz Crystal Bowls but also Quartz Bowls made with: Platinum, Gold, Rose Quartz and Moldavite, as well as Clear, Aqua Gold, Indigo, Holographic and Ultra Light Quartz Crystal Bowls. Explor - Expand - Evolve

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Life In Balance Throws A Dance Party.......2006-06-16

Life In Balance is based in Pittsburgh, and is centered around Steve Sciulli on flutes and Ann Sciulli on quartz bowls and tingshaw bells-until now, that is.

Unlike their prior CDs "Live" and "Deeper," on "Star" Life In Balance adds some synth generated dance rhytms, guitar and electric bass, even a little didgeridoo. The result is a vibrant album to move to, along with some contemplative tracks that would have fit right into "Deeper." Steve's flute is generally front and center, whether on the more ethereal pieces ("United Dream States," "Viburnum," "Orbit Of Venus," and the beautiful "Opening," ) as well as the more dance oriented songs, like "Calibrate," "Dimensional Change," Prowl," and "Cyber Tribal," tracks on which Steve shows off his roots playing in Irish ceili bands by getting listeners off the couch and onto the dance floor. Several tunes also have a pronounced South Asian sound. Everything winds down with the strange "Ringo's Star," leading one to ask "What's next for LIB?"

The dance rhythms never overwhelm, nor do they detract from "Star's" spiritual core. But where is it written that "healing music" can't get one's booty moving? "Star" was a nice surprise from LIB, an enormously talented duo whose musical growth is just beginning. Three great CDs already, and I can't wait to hear what surprises LIB have up their musical sleeves for the next CD.

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My favorite singer
Karen Oberlin Is Pure Velvet...
The Return of Doris (or at least the next best thing)
A magnificent tribute album

Secret Love: the Music of Doris Day
Karen Oberlin
Manufacturer: Original Cast Record
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Twelve Times Romance

ASIN: B00006J067
Release Date: 2002-08-19

Tracks:

Close Your Eyes
Que Sera Sera
Nobody's Heart
While the Music Plays On
Yes
Secret Love
I'll Never Stop Loving You
I'll See You in My Dreams
Tulip Or Turnip
It's Magic
I'd Rather Be with You
The Night We Called It a Day
I Got Lost in His Arms
Sentimental Journey
Little Girl Blue
Put 'Em In A Box, Tie 'Em With A Ribbon
How Are Things in Glocca Morra
We'll Be Together Again

Album Description

Most people think of Doris Day as a Hollywood girl-next-door who sang in her films. Posterity hasn't quite placed her where she belongs: among a handful of truly great singers - Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney - who made lyrics sound so personal and true that you forgot you were hearing a so-called "performance." James Cagney, Day's co-star in Love me or Leave Me, summed up her gifts: "The touchstone is simplicity, the simple line of performance, directly to you, uncluttered." In her best and worst films, in "The Comb and Paper Polka" or in the Rodgers & Hart score of the movie Jumbo, Day's utter genuineness never fails to touch the heart.

So it is in Karen Oberlin's jazz-inspired salute to Day. For the last few years, Karen has charmed cabaret and theater audience in and out of New York, her hometown. Were this 1945 - the year that Day brought Les Brown's orchestra to its peak of glory with her vocal on "Sentimental Journey" - swing bandleaders would be vying for Karen's services. But we're lucky to have her here now: a singer who, like Day delivers each song with warmth, honesty, and no frills; who radiates positive energy; and who makes you feel she's by your side, singing in your ear.

-- James Gavin, author of Deep in a Dream: The long night of Chet Baker

Customer Reviews:

My favorite singer.......2006-12-09

This is without a doubt my favorite CD ever. I have been fortunate enough to hear Ms. Oberlin perform live many times in NYC and this CD almost captures the beauty of her live performances.

Her rendition of How Are Things in Glocca Morra is the greatest version ever sung. She now owns that song!!

Karen Oberlin Is Pure Velvet..........2005-02-18

Listen to the soft, dreamy, vocal styling of Karen Oberlin and it will take you back to a simpler, more romantic time. Listen, and you will be carried back to a little restaurant, a beautiful, vocalist at the piano, melting your heart. Many of these standards including, "I'll See You in My Dreams," are envisioned in the abstract...gathered in your memories...take the time to close your eyes and listen. Karen's performance is just so soothing. I listened to every facet of these classics, trying to find the dagger that will take me out of my "journey." It wasn't there. Oh yes, this is about Doris Day, or is it? I'm listening to Karen singing to me, right now. That's all that matters.

The Return of Doris (or at least the next best thing).......2005-01-28

Probably because she first came to my attention as a movie star--and as the polar opposite of the screen sirens who stirred the hormones of a teen-aged boy--Doris Day somehow never reached me as a singer. It's been only in recent years that her voice, with its consistency, vibrancy, power and freshness, inerrant pitch and sublime musicality, has led me to collect her recordings. There's no question in my mind now that she was the real deal--a seasoned trouper who learned her craft in the '40's and could hold her own in front of any of the big bands--probably even without a microphone. There's an "edge" to every one of her performances, but nothing was forced. Moreover, as anyone who has seen her as Calamity Jane knows, she was the complete package: the voice, the persona (if that's an accurate term for so natural a presence), and the indomitable, unflagging spirit were all one.

Karen Oberlin's generous album (18 tunes!) is both a heartfelt homage to the great forebearer and a sparkling and highly personal set of performances that would do any present-day singer proud. She replaces Doris's tightly spinning vibrato with a smoother, more "contemporary," tone and employs more dynamic contrasts than Doris, allowing today's sensitive microphones to catch subtle shadings and vocal inflections. On "Que Sera," for example, the second "will be" in "whatever will be, will be" becomes not a repetitious iamb but an unexpected trochee in the artist's playful, dramatically effective emphasis on "will." On "It's Magic" she practically makes us associate the magical with the miraculous in her slight pause and then embracing of the critical word.

Credit, too, the always surprising arrangements of pianist Peter Firth and the sensitive accompaniment provided by two of New York's finest--David Fink (ironically, a favorite bassist of Andre Previn, who accompanied Doris on one of her most memorable albums) and Kenny Washington (also the preferred drummer of hard boppers like Johnny Griffin).

Oberlin includes the little-known jewels, such as R&H's "Nobody's Heart," alongside the '50's Hit Parade songs. But even the latter sound like staples in the Great American Songbook (newly minted ones at that) thanks to the inspired musicianship, good taste, and respect for the overseeing muse that is in abundant evidence throughout the project. The entire program is a labor of love, one that no listener (even someone who doesn't remember Doris) can't help but love.

A magnificent tribute album.......2003-02-06

This is one of three Doris Day tribute albums that I own. All are brilliant, but in different ways. None of them are straight copies and there are fewer songs that they share in common than one might expect. Karen's interest in Doris's music was really stirred when she heard some of the early jazzy recordings that Doris made with Les Brown. Karen firmly believes that Doris is not taken as seriously as she should be, so this album avoids anything lightweight. The style of the album is jazz, using piano, bass, drums, guitar, tenor sax and flugelhorn.

Whatever will be will be (Que sera sera) is given a completely different arrangement, created especially for Karen, which brings out the true meaning of the song. The result is impressive. Karen states that two her favorite albums are Duet and Day by night. Doris recorded Close your eyes twice, once for each of those albums. Karen's version opens this set. Yes and Nobody's heart are two other songs on Duet that Karen covered for this album, which also includes The night we called it a day from Day by night.

Secret love, I'll never stop loving you, It's magic and Sentimental journey are four famous classics here, all exquisitely covered by Karen. I'm not sure if How are things in Glocca Morra? really belongs in this collection, but I love that song as much as Karen does, and Doris did actually sing the song.

Tracks:

Loops & Tings - Jens
Tales Of The Seraphin - Baby Doc & The Dentist
Access - DJ Tim & DJ Misjah
Sizzling Love - Ph 1
Cyanide - Hiroshima
You Belong To Me - JX
Kelly's Heroes - Tall Paul
1st Rebirth - Jones & Stephenson
Global Phases - The Dentist
Superstition - Luxor
Schoneberg - Marmion

Customer Reviews:

Great Techno c.d.......2001-07-12

hey whats up people, this c.d is great, i give it 5 stars because every song on this c.d is great and each one deserves a round off applause. This c.d would be great for when you work out or when your driving your car down the street blasting its great bass. Its also good just to listen to when your at home. SIT BACK AND RELAX AND POP THIS C.D INTO THE C.D PLAYER E N J O Y JOE

One of the best unknown CD's I've ever heard.......2001-01-26

This CD is awesome. It has to be because this is the 3rd time I'm buying because somehow or another people end up taking it because they like it so much. Though it is not exactly what you would consider a continuous mix it still a bangin' CD that will keep you moving throughout the whole thing. It's too bad they didn't come out with a sequel.

great unkown trance.......2000-04-01

this album is definitely worth your money. some of the lesser-known trance artists from europe make a stab at giving you the best....i think they've succeeded. the album is almost continuously mixed....i say almost b/c after each song there is no fluid mix into the next song. depending on the track the beats just automatically speed up or slow down....but it still sounds good....i recommend tracks 1, 8 and 9 for that trance sound that builds up and up up and finally when it breaks...it leaves you all tingly and goosebumped. Exceptional album. i highly recommend it.

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Fascination

Manufacturer: Armadillo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAG8QI
Release Date: 2002-04-23

Tracks:

Her Story
The Other Side
Columbus
Stop
Strange Fascination
Scream
Brandi
Rainstorms & Battleships
Collide

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Great music, great lyrics

Goodpeople
Goodpeople
Manufacturer: GREAT RECORDS
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005V6DV
Release Date: 1999-12-20

Tracks:

New Day
Wondering Why
Soul Food
Grass is Greener

Customer Reviews:

Great music, great lyrics.......2003-05-08

These guys have really got it together. I would highly recommend it. There's an upbeat tone and music you can groove to. I loved it.

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Ignorance & Fear

Manufacturer: Wookie Wook Sound
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAD9VK
Release Date: 2004-07-20

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Soul Power

Manufacturer: Backalley Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAJONC
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Prescription
Doc Grip
Manufacturer: Level 10 Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAJSY2
Release Date: 2002-05-21

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