Mountain Dance

Artist: Dave Grusin
Label: Grp Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 011105950725
EAN: 0011105950725
ASIN: B0000001PN

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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| Jazz | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

Rag Bag
Friends and Strangers
City Lights
Rondo - 'If You Hold Out Your Hand'
Mountain Dance
Thanksong
Captain Caribe
Either Way

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The Very Best of Dave Grusin
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Customer Reviews:

When Grusin was GREAT.........2006-06-17

This album came out in the 1980s,when"smooth"jazz was hot..Grusin,a jazz pianist,composer and producer who also scores for films and television was on a personal hot streak at the time,and this album was/is one of his best efforts...sure,the cover art is distracting,Grusin in a cowboy hat looking for all the world like a gay cowpoke,but the music is among the best of it's kind...especially the title track..Grusin,who has since abandoned smooth jazz and fusion in order to concentrate on rather sappy big band efforts and mediocore tributes to suchlike as Duke Ellington,put out two or three other excellent smooth jazz efforts at about the same time,along with a few live efforts.."One of a Kind",another great recording,features the late Grover Washington,While"Harlequin" has Lee Ritenour ,Ivan Lins,and a host of others..If you are feeling really experimental,check out Grusin's all-time best soundtrack score,"Three days of the Condor",which features,as a main theme,the much-recorded track"Condor"..

Don't look at the cover!.......2005-09-03

Mountain dance is a very good album. It was recorded digitally and "live" in the recording studio (no overdubbings!), so you can enjoy the pure sound of digital Grusin and feel - almost touch - the "musicianship" between Dave and other incredible artists such as Harvey Mason,Ian Underwood, Jeff Mironov etc. etc. However, I don't give it 5 stars because of the silly cover art (Grusin in cowboy suit). Well, I know that he was born in a rural town and so on, but if you don't know anything about his music and look at the cover for the first time, it's really likely to mistake "Mountain dance" for country stuff or even gay music. There is no "Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys"-like or "YMCA"-like stuff here, only jazz/fusion.

Southern California dreamin'.......2003-12-24

This CD(tape at that time) was my first introduction to Grusin, whom I consider a genius at putting thoughts, emotions, and feelings into music.
For me this is Balboa Park in San Diego and all the gorgeous sunshine a midwesterner could imagine.
The clever syncopation and rhythms of Rag Bag, City Lights, and Friends and Strangers coupled with the hauntingly simple and beautiful Thanksong ( which hinted at themes like On Golden Pond)make this CD a treasure.
I have listened to it several hundred times and it NEVER gets stale. The instrumentation and intricacies are never disppointing time after time after time.
A former jazz bass player I consider myself somewhat savvy but this CD never fails to amaze me.

good album.......2003-07-09

i got a copy of this album in cassette form back in '86. it was one of the album's that got me oriented to smooth jazz. finally got myself the cd copy a year later. check out the live version of mountain dance on the cd "grp live in sessions".

Poor Sound Quality.......2003-05-28

I am a big fan of Dave Grusin, and I orginally purchased "Mountain Dance" on cassette. When I later purchased this music on CD, I found I really had to crank up the volume to hear it. Maybe some mistakes were made in recording but the sound was quite poor.

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