Imagine My Surprise

Imagine My Surprise Artist: Dreams
Label: Scorpio
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 079892833324
EAN: 0079892833324
ASIN: B000005MQJ


Release Date: 1997-09-22

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Tracks:

  1. Calico
  2. Why Can't I Find A Home
  3. Child Of Wisdom
  4. Just Be Ouselves
  5. I Can't Hear You
  6. Here She Comes Now
  7. Don't Cry My Lady
  8. Medicated Goo
  9. Imagine My Surprise

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars One of the best jazz-rock bands ever........1998-06-20

The amazing pop-funk-jazz-rock group Dreams was at the forefront of what was to become fusion music (a unique blend of jazz, rock and funk) but recorded only two albums before they broke up in 1971.

Members of the band included some of the best improvisational soloists of the time: the funky Brecker Brothers (Michael on tenor sax and Randy on trumpet), Billy Cobham (drums), Barry Rogers (trombone), John Abercrombie (guitar) who was later replaced by Bob Mann (guitar), Jeff Kent (keyboards) who was replaced by Don Grolnick (keyboards), Doug Luban (bass) who was replaced by Will Lee (bass) and Edward Vernon (vocal).

Unfortunately for the group, they were signed to the same label as Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago, so apparently Dreams didn't get the label backing that they deserved. After the release of their second album "Imagine My Surprise" they disbanded. Randy and Michael then formed their ground-breaking jazz-funk group "The Brecker Brothers Band," Billy Cobham joined guitarist John McLaughlin's "Mahavishnu Orchestra" (which also featured Jan Hammer on keyboards) and later played several sessions with Miles Davis, and Will Lee went back to being New York's premier studio bassist and eventually ended up in Paul Shaffer's band on the Dave Letterman Show, a gig he still currently holds.

Music CD:

  1. Homecoming ~ Gateway
  2. Talkin' Verve ~ Quincy Jones
  3. Electric Ascension ~ Rova Orkestrova
  4. Suddenly ~ Marcus Miller, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk
  5. The Best of Maynard Ferguson ~ Maynard Ferguson
  6. Charleston of the Twenties ~ Various Artists
  7. Adventures in Jazz ~ Bob Mamet
  8. Cleanhead & Cannonball ~ Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Cannonball Adderley
  9. In Winds, In Light ~ Anders Jormin
  10. Giants of Jazz: Marian McPartland ~ Marian McPartland

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No Nose Job ~ Digital Underground

Gaudi ~ Alan Parsons Project , and Eric Woolfson

Too Fast to Live ~ Sid Vicious

Land Rush ~ Fletcher Harrington , and Topeka

This Side ~ Nickel Creek

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Happiness in Magazines ~ Graham Coxon

Live at the Paradiso ~ Link Wray

I'm Your Man ~ Lisa Moorish

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