Label: Far Out Recordings
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5030094083622
ASIN: B000096FNR
Release Date: 2003-08-05
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Joyce
Label: Far Out Recordings Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5030094083622 ASIN: B000096FNR Release Date: 2003-08-05 |
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JUST HITTING HER STRIDE...?.......2003-11-04
Joined on this recording by Norwegian keyboard great Bugge Wesseltoft, Joyce is also accompanied by some of the fine musicians her fans have come to know and love: the ever-present, incredibly talented and tasteful Tutty Moreno on drums; Teco Cardoso on flutes and saxes; Nailor Proveta on alto clarinet and sax; and a welcome return by Rodolfo Stroetter on acoustic and electric bass. Robertinho Silva completes the ensemble with deft touches on various percussives. Their playing fits together like the pieces of a puzzle - like elements of a painting that cry out to be together, making a whole that is truly `greater than the sum of the parts'.
All of the tunes here were written or co-written by Joyce, with three notable exceptions: Stroetter's `Galope' (which he dedicates to Tutty Moreno), Paul Mirsaki's `L'etang' - and a version of Lennon & McCartney's `A hard day's night' that will absolutely take your breath away. Joyce's compositional abilities continue to mature and grow - and that's a wonderful thing. It shows that she still loves her work with all of her heart and soul, and she pours every bit of herself into doing it. Her phrasing is perfect and completely natural - nothing comes across as forced or cloying. That aspect alone makes her music a joy to experience - and coupled with her sense of melody, rhythm, and an innate ability and need to `push the envelope', she keeps her listeners both entertained and delighted with the roads down which she leads them.
There are slow tunes here as well as upbeat ones - the mix of rhythms, tempos and moods is perfectly arranged. The band performs with feeling and precision - but never so much precision that makes them sound like a machine. This is music of humanity. There are two instrumentals included - both composed by Joyce - and they are incredible. `For Hall' is her tribute to guitar legend Jim Hall, of whom she says `...one of my greatest guitar inspirations'; `Pause, bitte' is dedicated to the WDR Big Band, from Kýln. Her wordless vocals on this tune are simply amazing - what an arrangement!
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