True Blue

Artist: Mark Whitfield
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731452359124
EAN: 0731452359124
ASIN: B0000046W6

Release Date: 1994-10-04

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Mark Whitfield Bluesbased Jazzguitar Maestro
THE BLUESBASED JAZZGUITARPLAYERS (2)

Tracks:

Blues For Davis Alexander
Save Your Love For Me
Immanuel The Redeemer
Quik Pik's Blues
Mr. Syms
\Berkshire Blues
Blues For Baby Boy
Girltalk
Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
Psalm 91
The Mystery Of Love Everlasting
Blues For Alice
John And Mamie

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Customer Reviews:

can you handle this.....waaaw.......2006-08-12

This is an amazing cd. Every jazz fan should have this cd in their collection. I have this cd more than 10 years and i get amazed every time i hear it. Mark and the ohter musicians focus on playing together rather than doing their own thing. If you concentrate you can listen to one instrument at the time. Its like they talk to each other. The sounds are very clear and the players are at their best. I think its the combination of these players together that makes it what it is. If you listen to the other cd's of Mark you will noticed that his technique is better or the same but the result does not come close to True Blue. True the years i have learned that every number one this cd is my favourit.....go Mark...

A True Blue Masterpiece.......2001-09-23

I fully agree with the reviewewer from Germany.. this could well be the best jazz guitar album ever done.. so far. Still.. 7 years after I got it ..I am stunned every time I listen to it.. At the time ,1994, I never heard of Mark Whitfield.(shame on me) I bought this albun without knowing anything about Whitfield...When I did put the CD on the turntable... I could nt beleive what I heard..What a groove,what a soul feeling. This album is loaded with groove and soul in the "true blue" way that Montgomery Green, Burrell and of course Mr Benson.. implemented in the sixties. In my opinion Whitfield has not been able to "match" the level of this albumon any of his later releases.. although most of them have been very good.
BUT,,,it is not only because of Whitfield that this is a masterpiece the sidemen on this recording are far from "second raters" My favourite are the late Kenny kirkland on piano..he sounds like early Hancock but slightly more technical and he swings, his solo on "Blues for Alice" is almost unbearable.
Nic Payton on the trumpet was already here a guy with "monster chops"
If you like jazz with a heavy blues flavour and groove in one package you can hardly find a better album.

THE jazz guitar album of the 90s........1999-10-02

As a longstanding fan of Wes Montgomery's music, I was knocked out when I listened to Mark's stunning, insuperable performance for the first time. Since then, I'v been replaying this album -probably the most varied jazz guitar album ever -a zillion times, always discovering new subtleties. Thanks, Mark, you've done a service to mankind.

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