Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK

Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK

ASIN: B00004TFE6

Editorial Reviews
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At first listen, it wouldn't appear that guitarists Mark Whitfield and JK would have much to talk about musically. Whitfield absorbed the influence of jazzers like Wes Montgomery, then went on to work with the likes of Betty Carter and Carmen McRae. JK has been a top R&B producer and session guitarist. It turns out that the two share a love for classic soul music. That makes Soul Conversation as bright and lively a duet idea as George Benson and Earl Klugh's 1987 CD, Collaboration. The real joys of this project come when the two go point-counterpoint, statement and echo, as on "Talk to Me." The two spend the moody, wah-wah enhanced tune negotiating the subtle edges of a thick groove through improvisational trade-offs. At the end of each passage, they join and wind down the melody like two leaves falling directly on top of each other. Two's company most of the time here, but that tune and the shuffle-jam "Vision" feature a third who's worthy of opinion in the form of Herbie Hancock and his Fender Rhodes. --Jonathan Widran

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Average customer rating:

great music, but horrible audio-engineering!

Jazz purists BEWARE..this isn't smooth jazz either

please god, dont make me like this...its smooth jazz!

Soulsantional!

Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK
Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK
Manufacturer: Transparent Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Jazz | Styles | Music
Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00004TFE6
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

Whatever It Takes
Talk To Me
Reflections Of You
Miami Sunset
Visions
Hand To Mouth
Secrets
In The Backseat
69th Street
On The Edge
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At first listen, it wouldn't appear that guitarists Mark Whitfield and JK would have much to talk about musically. Whitfield absorbed the influence of jazzers like Wes Montgomery, then went on to work with the likes of Betty Carter and Carmen McRae. JK has been a top R&B producer and session guitarist. It turns out that the two share a love for classic soul music. That makes Soul Conversation as bright and lively a duet idea as George Benson and Earl Klugh's 1987 CD, Collaboration. The real joys of this project come when the two go point-counterpoint, statement and echo, as on "Talk to Me." The two spend the moody, wah-wah enhanced tune negotiating the subtle edges of a thick groove through improvisational trade-offs. At the end of each passage, they join and wind down the melody like two leaves falling directly on top of each other. Two's company most of the time here, but that tune and the shuffle-jam "Vision" feature a third who's worthy of opinion in the form of Herbie Hancock and his Fender Rhodes. --Jonathan Widran

Customer Reviews:

great music, but horrible audio-engineering!.......2005-03-06

this is a great funky "smooth"-jazz album, unfortunately it is not listenable to good ears.
the audio-engineer must have been deaf! i've never heard anyhting like that, only with some single tracks (e.g. on george michael's patience) but in this case the whole album is polluted by some high-frequency noise around 16KHz that makes listening to the music a real torture, he must have used some exciter or other high-frequency enhancer that added this horrible noise.
i get headache from it.

Jazz purists BEWARE..this isn't smooth jazz either.......2004-10-14

I must confess I love Mark Whitfield's music. I have everything. Some is better than others. I had never heard of JK. Frankly I dont know (or much care) who JK has produced. I do care about this project. Flat out, every track is solid. I don't beleive it had much commercial success but then most gems remain undiscovered. There are several special artists but the whole point of this project was to bring different people of different backgrounds together for their common love of solid grooves. It Worked and check out the DVD of the same title. I own it too!!!!

please god, dont make me like this...its smooth jazz!.......2001-08-11

...i really dislike "smooth" jazz. most of it is not really as smooth or as jazzy as it is just plain old boring. this is the one category of music i get burned on the most whenever i purchase any...especially the ones that claim to be "the greatest combination of hip-hop and jazz". there's no hip-hop at all on this cd, but the tracks here are all a shade shy from being funky and laid-back enough without being drowsy. whether you "sittin back in the cut", "jus' chillin'" or "jus' gon' marinade"-this is good pre- and post-date music to conversate over...or WHATEVER it is you do.

Soulsantional!.......2000-06-15

Great Album, a definite keeper for the smooth jazz list. I've only heard the "Whatever It Takes" song on the radio recently and was hooked, so I checked them out to see if they were as good as they sounded. It's true, they are even better than they sounded! A MUST HAVE for the smooth jazz fan!

Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK

Average customer rating:

Soul Conversation Featuring Mark Whitfield & JK
Mark Whitfield & JK
Manufacturer: Jvc Victor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005MMMY
Release Date: 2001-08-22

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: 'whatever it Takes (Alternate Mix)'

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Jazz Music

Jazz Music