After the Rain

Artist: John McLaughlin , Elvin Jones , and Joey DeFrancesca
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731452746726
EAN: 0731452746726
ASIN: B0000046Z2

Release Date: 1995-08-08

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Tracks:

Take The Coltrane
My Favorite Things
Sing Me Softly The Blues
Encuentros
Naima
Tones For Elvin Jones
Crescent
Afro Blue
After The Rain

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Customer Reviews:

Highly Recommended.......2006-08-23

This recording is John McLaughlin's homage to Coltrane. If you enjoy both artists, then you should love this. McLaughlin's musical sensibility, his consummate, exquisite guitar playing, and the often-subtle interplay between the musicians are a pleasure to hear from beginning to end. This is not a recording where McLaughlin displays the diverse range of musical styles and cultures that he does in some of his other work. This one is more cohesive in terms of style and sound. The greatness of this recording is that it flawlessly evokes the beauty of Coltrane's music. This is as creative and satisfying as McLaughlin's best.

One of McLaughlin's Best Recordings.......2006-03-25

This is one of John McLaughlin's best recordings. It's nice to hear him playing in a straight-ahead context. Some people on this page have complained about the sound of his guitar. It sounds very much like the guitar he plays on "Johnny McLaughlin Electric Guitarist". I believe it is a hollow-body electric with a scalloped fretboard, which gives the guitar a very unusual solo voice - very beautiful in fact. A strong recording from a great musician!

where is the bass player?.......2006-03-04

elvin and john are fab, but a band needs a bass player!

A sleeper.......2004-05-20

I always enjoy this record. There's great empathy among the players. I think Elvin Jones, the master, is the real hero of this music. He keeps McLaughlin and Joey DeFranceso, two incredibly gifted musicians from getting too technical or flashy. Rather, it sounds like they all Heard (with a big "H") each other - there's a nice spirit to this record.

By the way, they all play great . . . but you knew that.

Sheer Delight.......2004-03-19

What a delightful record this is! Who could resist the unbelievably swinging Elvin Jones, and the fantastic playing of John McLaughlin and Joey De Francesco here? Well, a few of the other reviewers that's who, but they are way off the mark. I think `music fan' is a misnomer. `Guitar fan' would be more appropriate. To dismiss the sheer pleasure of this music due to subjective tone issues is sad indeed. I'm also a guitarist, and appreciate the delicacies of good guitar tone. John's guitar tone here is not at all like Pat Metheny's. Admittedly, chorusing is not one of my favourite things (couldn't resist that one) either, but this music is so wonderful that it's easy to look past what for me, and most others I think, is a minor issue. The sound is chorused, but it's not "watery". It has plenty of bite. Another reviewer even moans about John using one sound on the whole album! That's really funny, because every one the pioneering "Jazz" guitarists I know used/uses only one basic sound for every recording and every performance throughout their entire career!!

Then there's the review in the Penguin guide which says: "Too cleanly recorded, though, and McLaughlin's guitar has a plainer, quasi-acoustic ring, not the full-choke distortion of earlier years." It seems people are very hard to please when it comes to choosing their favourite guitar sound for John McLaughlin! Ignore them all. This terrific album deserves to be heard.

I've heard similar arguments from drummers which don't stand scrutiny either. Drummer friends of mind are really upset that Elvin Jones wasn't "recorded well", and apparently Modern Drummer magazine panned this record for that reason. Do we hear the drummers complaining about John McLaughlin's guitar tone? Do we hear the guitar fans complaining about the recording of Elvin's drums? These are highly subjective areas and shouldn't deter anyone from getting hold of this lovely record immediately!

`After The Rain' is a totally delightful record of irresistibly swinging music, made with obvious pleasure and delight. It's a complete gas from start to finish, and one of the most spontaneous and refreshingly pure jazz records John McLaughlin has ever made or been involved with. It's an absolute joy.

Please don't hesitate to get this beautiful album.

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