Promise Me the Moon

Promise Me the Moon

ASIN: B000093FKJ

Track Listings

1. Promise Me the Moon

2. Benjamin

3. Stranger's Arms

4. Heart Lake

5. Rev.

6. We Fool Ourselves

7. Morning Salsa

8. Legend of Cheops

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
David Sanborn is regarded as one of the greatest jazz saxophone players of all time. He is one of a small number of jazz artists to consistently make the Billboard charts with his releases. This reissue from Wounded Bird was originally released in 1977 and features Hiram Bullock & Mark Egan. 8 tracks. 2003.

Promise Me the Moon,David Sanborn,Wounded Bird Records,Crossover Jazz,Jazz,Jazz Music,Jazz-Pop,Pop

Average customer rating:

Great early Sanborn

Long Lost "Promise" Fufilled

Sanborn fans take note

Promise Me the Moon
David Sanborn
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Hideaway

Backstreet

As We Speak

Voyeur

Heart to Heart

ASIN: B000093FKJ
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

Promise Me the Moon
Benjamin
Stranger's Arms
Heart Lake
Rev.
We Fool Ourselves
Morning Salsa
Legend of Cheops

Album Description

David Sanborn is regarded as one of the greatest jazz saxophone players of all time. He is one of a small number of jazz artists to consistently make the Billboard charts with his releases. This reissue from Wounded Bird was originally released in 1977 and features Hiram Bullock & Mark Egan. 8 tracks. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Great early Sanborn.......2007-03-27

This is an interesting look into the early years of Sanborn's career. However, I agree with the other reviewers that it's not the best representation of Sanborn's work, bust probably gave him some early commercial visibility. True Sanborn fans will love it though. For a better intro to his music, try Straight to the Heart. If you like "Promise", try Heart to Heart.

Long Lost "Promise" Fufilled.......2003-09-03

The other reviewer must be a newer Sanborn fan. This was his second album and I've been waiting forever for it to be released on CD (Released 4/03 from above, so just a few months ago).

In my opinion, by far the finest cut, and alone worth the price of the CD, is the first song "Promise Me the Moon." It is magical. It is that oh so rare state of controlled chaos, with beautiful intertwined harmonies, both vocal and instrumental. The vocals and instruments compliment each other, as the vocals are used to the same effect as instruments. Its probably my favorite Sanborn song. This CD is a MUST HAVE if you enjoy early Sanborn.

During these early years ('75-78) I was lucky enough to see Sanborn and his very talented band (Hiram Bullock along w/ Pat Methany's future bass player Mark Egan) perform 2-3x in a small nightclub in Woodstock, NY, The Joyous Lake, where they and many famous and talented musicians who lived locally and down in NY City performed while they came to the Catskills for the weekend, or to record an album. It was truly a wonderous experience to sit 10 feet away from Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Eric Gale,Richard Tee, Steve Gadd (aka "Stuff") and so many others and watch them play.

Sanborn fans take note.......2003-06-09

I thought I had every Sanborn album, only to find this cd sitting in the record store?

To hardcore Sanborn fans, this CD is worth the money, as it has 3 tasty cuts that fit right in with the 70's/80's part of his career that made him so popular.

"The Rev" a Hiram Bullock ballad, and "Benjamin" an early James Taylor remake would fit right in to any of Dave's best albums from the 70's and 80's. These cuts in particular would fit perfectly on to his Hideaway CD, melodic but pushed forward by his powerful and expressive style.

Unfortunately, this cd which is titled "David Sanborn Band" has too many vocals and Spyro Gyra sounding non vocal efforts. Stranger's Arms is the best of the vocal tracks, a bluesy/funky effort reminiscent of "Love and Happiness" from the Straight to the Heart CD, though not in it's class.

The standout track is "Morning Salsa" which alone makes this cd worth the money! This cut is vintage Sanborn and who knew it even existed until now? Thank God for reissues!

Tracks:

Der Lenz
Without A Song
For You Alone
Das Land Des Lachelns: Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz
I Det Frie (Danish Children's Song)
Agnus Dei
Easy To Love
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Cantique De Noel
The Rosary
Ave Maria
Der Opernball: The Kiss In Your Eyes (Im Chambre Separee)
Spring Came Back To Vienna
Kaiserwalzer
Torna A Surriento
The Song Is You
Summer Moon
Mattinata
Who Is Sylvia?
Robin Hood: O Promise Me
I Love You Truly
All Mein Gedanken 'Minnelied' - Lauritz Melchior/Georgie Stoll/Lou Raderman/Albert Sendry
Tosca: Recondita Armonia
Tosca: E Lucevan Le Stelle
Pagliacci: Vesti La Giubba
Pagliacci: No, Pagliacci Non Son!
Helan Gar (Swedish Drinking Song)

Count John McCormack-The Final Recordings

Average customer rating:

A valuable collection.
A good sampling of the last days of an inimitable artist.

Count John McCormack-The Final Recordings

Manufacturer: Pearl
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000WQ6
Release Date: 1995-10-17

Tracks:

God Keep You Is My Prayer
At The Mid Hour Of Night
When I Awake
Down By The Sally Gardens
She Rested By The Broken Brook
Jesus Christ The Son Of God
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Silent Noon
The Street Sounds To The Soldiers' Tread
Loveliest Of Trees
While In The Moon The Long RoadLies
The Dawn Will Break
The Village That Nobody Knows
Praise Ye The Lord
Linden Lea
The White Peace
Little Boats
She Moved Through The Fair
No, Not More Welcome
The Green Bushes
Bantry Bay
Maureen (Irish Cradle Song)
Our Finest Hour
Our Finest Hour
Smilin' Through

Tracks:

The Devout Lover
Oh, Promise Me (Romanaza)
A Rose Still Blooms In Picardy
Jerusalem
A Rose Still Blooms In Picardy
Will You Go With Me
Night Hynm At Sea
Still As The Night
Off To Philadelphia
Come Back My Love
Here In The Quiet Hills
God Bless America
The Battle Hymn Of The American Republic
Interview And Conversation - The Gentle Maiden
I'll Walk Beside You
By The Lakes OF Killarney
Love Thee, Dearest, Love Thee
A Children's Prayer In Wartime
One Love Forever
Say A Little Prayer
Ave Verum Corpus
To Chloe
Waiting For You

Customer Reviews:

A valuable collection........2003-01-12

Admirers of this very major singer may well judge this to be the very best collection of John McCormack reissues on the market. It gathers together everything he recorded in the last twenty months of his singing life. Joining with accompanist Gerald Moore at London's Abbey Road Studios, he recorded sometimes as many as six items at a recording session.

Gerald Moore, in his autobiography, recalled that John McComack was averse both to rehearsing and to recording more than one take of each song. Of the dozens of items here, almost all derive from a first take. Only once was there a tiny error. It occurred in the song "The Green Bushes". Listen carefully, and you will hear John McCormack begin to sing "So sweetly she sang" before correcting it, in the nick of time, to "So sweetly sang she". There was never a chance to do another take, but fortunately the item was eventually issued after McCormack's death. Indeed, there are many items here that were issued posthumously, and at least six published here for the first time. A couple of duets with Maggie Teyte have had little or no circulation. One of them here sounds to be copied from a slightly faulty but perhaps only existing copy.

In the old-fashioned, sentimental and imprecise terminology of his day, McCormack sang from his heart, and aimed to touch the hearts of his hearers. It is fortunate that sound recording caught these performances so well, before emphysema silenced McCormack forever, and it is fortunate that Pavilion Records and supervisor Brian Fawcett-Johnston make them available today.

A good sampling of the last days of an inimitable artist........1999-04-21

By the time these performances were put to wax, McCormack's voice was twenty or more years past it's prime. But, unlike most classically trained singers, McCormack's vocal limitations appear to have encouraged a more musically adventurous approach to his singing. His later recordings have an immediacy and sponteneity that is absolutely unique to a singer of his era and training. His singing is, in fact, more like that of a "pop" singer, in that the voice takes a back seat to the phrasing, and ablility to convey a lyric with honest emotion instead of histrionics. The clarity of tone, and the ring of the high notes is gone in these recordings, but the "presence" of McCormack the songster is stronger than ever. The transfers are excellent, as we have come to expect from Pearl. While the fidelity is not what most expect from today's recording techniques, to my ear they are more satisfying. The voice is recorded up-front and very clearly, and we can revel in the knowledge that it was all originally recorded "honestly"; that is, without edits and without electronic alterations of any sort. McCormack was a great artist who never became boring. In this day of bellicose tenors who are content to sing the same repertoire in the same manner year after year, that is saying a lot. If McCormack's singing is new to you, do yourself a favor and get this one. Also pick up one of his youthful operatic recitals, and you will come to know just what a great performer and amazingly varied artist he was. Enjoy, for his like will probably not be heard again.

Robert Merrill on Radio - Unpublished Broadcasts from 1940 to 1946

Average customer rating:

Robert Merrill on Radio - Unpublished Broadcasts from 1940 to 1946

Manufacturer: Enterprise
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000040T4
Release Date: 1995-06-20

Jazz Music:

Jazz Music

Jazz Music