The Journey Within

Artist: Bernie Williams
Label: Grp Records
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 602498603864
EAN: 0602498603864
ASIN: B00009VGX9

Release Date: 2003-07-15

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Tracks:

La Salsa En Mi
The Way
Para Don Berna
Desvelado
Just Because
Samba Novo
Dust In The Wind
Stranded On The Bridge
Bernie Jr.
Enter The Bond
And So It Goes
Just Because
The Williams Kids

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Customer Reviews:

Talented writer AND outstanding jazz guitarist.......2005-07-18

Those whose idea of a guitar virtuoso is Jimi Hendrix probably won't be impressed by this album. Bernie Williams is a REAL guitarist whose years of studying classical guitar are obvious on this album. The music he plays here is technically challenging, and he plays it not only crisply but emotionally. The fact that he also wrote most of it makes it all the more impressive.

The songs are mostly soft latin jazz, a few with vocals (but Bernie doesn't sing), and the last one being a contemporary Christian song with Bernie's kids singing (it's adorable).

As a Red Sox fan, I felt as if I was compromising my principles by buying this album. But as a true music lover, it was a good choice.

Not bad for a ball player.......2005-02-25

I was really surprised when I bought this CD. Some reviewers here are saying the CD sucks, and only NY Yankees fans are giving it great reviews. Also that the songs sound alike and and you can't tell it's Bernie Williams. Give the guy a break !! How many CD's has Boney James cut? Sure you can tell it's Boney, but this is Bernie's first CD. Also, baseball has nothing to do with it. I'm an A's fan and totally disliked Bernie Williams. This CD made me realize that there's more to a person than meets the eye. You can hear his cultural upbringing in his choice of songs and his style of guitar playing. This is a great jazz album to listen to. I really like the David Sancious organ solo. My only problem is where is the follow up album?

The Journey Begins..............2005-02-16

I have owned the CD for over a year and still listen to it frequently. A great debut release. Can't wait for the next one.
Also recommend the DVD.

Bernie is an All-Star as a Jazz Guitarist as well!.......2004-12-15

Just bought "The Journey Within"... excellent album! I've listened to it 3 times today, and I've enjoyed it as much as my Pat Metheny and Armik albums. May I also recommend the music DVD by the same title. Bernie, if you ever read this... you are as graceful, classy and talented with a guitar as you are in Yankee Pinstripes. Your work is a pleasure to listen to, and I look forward to your next release. You will have a long, successful career as a musician after your number is retired by the Yankees.

Okay okay, call him "Santana Lite" if you want..........2004-06-10

The plain fact is that this is a pretty decent recording by a pro athlete. Most of the material here is Williams' own compositions. The leadoff "La Salsa en Mi" is a bouncy, catchy number that most of my friends who are New York Yankee fans were humming to themselves the first few weeks after this album's release, having picked it up from the Yes Network boys running clips from it here and there between innings last season. It's just as infectious as that old Mangione classic "Feels So Good". When Williams does covers like Kansas' "Dust In the Wind" and Billy Joel's "And So It Goes", he prudently keeps the arrangements true to the originals. You may say "so what", but that's practically a law when a rookie plays another dude's tune. And I have to take issue with one observation about the "Williams Kids" track. It consists of two junior chorus level songs sung by Bernie's kids, backed by piano played either by Dad or one of them (who knows?) and their solid glee club harmonies are consistent with children of a musician. And anyway, it says clearly that it's a "bonus track" tacked onto the end. So it hardly detracts from an already good-sized album. Come on already, they also included the shorter single version of "Just Because" here. Ben Sidran once said that jazz is "the American classical music", but let's face it--people who actually feel that way in the full sense of the word verge upon a purism that hampers their capacity to enjoy entertainment. Sidran notwithstanding, jazz is the original rock'n'roll. I won't say this effort is Grammy-bound, but this album is not this man's "day job", you know? Most of this man's fan base is centered in another profession, which leaves him with little to prove before he even plays a note. So we get a sound that's a little Carlos, a little DiMeola and a little Metheny. Maybe a little Gabor Szabo, one of Santana's biggest early influences. So it's bound to be derivative--most of Bernie's "dues" have been paid out in center field at the Stadium with gear by Rawlings and Wilson rather than Gibson and Fender. The upside is that he's free to just have fun here. And anyway, hardly anything I listen to cops any Grammys. Don't get me started on some of the noise that does.

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