Live in South Africa

Live in South Africa Artist: Andy Narell
Label: Heads Up
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 053361306021
EAN: 0053361306021
ASIN: B00005BC6D


Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Tracks:

  1. Play One For Keith
  2. Kalinda
  3. Out Of The Blue
  4. Jenny's Room
  5. Coffee Street
  6. Hannibal's Revenge

Tracks:

  1. Sugar Street
  2. Chakalaka
  3. Little Secrets
  4. Heads Or Tails
  5. Mpule
  6. Oxamu

Similar Items:

  1. The Passage
  2. Behind the Bridge
  3. Fire in the Engine Room
  4. The Caribbean Jazz Project
  5. Down the Road

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars rhythm in the blood.......2002-12-20

Usually I don't like this steel-drum-stuff. But this time I made the right choice. This music goes straight from your ears into your legs. Whenever I listen to this cd I can't stand still. I can literally visualize how the crowd went mad while they were on that concert. It's really worth listening at and maybe you may like steel-drums after all too. Have a try.

5 out of 5 stars My First Andy Narell Title.......2002-01-20

I first heard of Andy Narell while I was listening to the NPR radio program, 'The World'. The played serveral tracks from this cd and I fell in love with it instantly. Since I have purchased it, it has remained in my cd player almost contantly. It is good to listen to just about any time. I have not heard any of Andy's previous cd's so I have nothing else of his to compare it to, but I can say that I really enjoy this cd!

4 out of 5 stars Solid Live Effort.......2001-07-23

When I first heard Andy Narell on the radio in Chicago in 1979, I knew I had to add his music to my nascent jazz collection. This was right at the beginning of his career, before his Windham Hill/Hip Pocket association, before the Caribbean Jazz Project, before his Heads Up International association. He was on a tiny, now-defunct indie jazz label, the name of which slips my mind, and he was playing stuff I'd never heard before. Yes, I'd heard steel drum music before, and yes, I'd heard jazz before, but never steel drum jazz.

To these ears, his music was unique, and it has remained so throughout four decades. Indeed, he pioneered a new type of fusion--jazz and up-beat Caribbean. Dizzy and others had fused jazz with Afro-Cuban music, and Egberto Gismonti was fusing jazz with Afro-Brazilian music, but no one was doing what Narell did. If the trail he blazed hasn't had a lot of followers (one thinks of Monty Alexander's two ivory and steel discs and the Oliver Lake Steel Quartet's Kinda Up--a very fine release, by the way), it's probably as much because of the difficulty of mastering this approach as well as Narell's unique command of his instrument as any deficiency in Narell's music per se.

The jazz press has generally dismissed Narell, regarding him as Not A Serious Artist. And he's taken quite a beating from them on this latest release. No, it's not his best and it's hard to listen to both discs straight through without at least a little boredom setting in, but there's still a lot of very good music here. If you're at all interested in what I call jazz beat (real jazz filtered through the lens of some indiginous folk music), you really should check out Andy Narell. This is probably as good a place to start as any, seeing that his best discs, his Windham Hill releases Slow Motion (available as an import), Light in Your Eyes, Stickman, and Little Secrets are no longer available. Of the Heads Up releases, Beyond the Bridge is probably the best, but it's a little stripped down, lacking the impact of his usual kick-butt band.

In any case, do yourself a favor and check out this remarkable world musician.

5 out of 5 stars I'm dancing.......2001-06-08

Listen, I know some people do not care for steel pans and for those of us who do, this is one great album. The band is fantastic and it will have you dancing and grooving. This is one of the best and groovy records I have heard from Narell in a long time even though I truly loved his last album Fire In The Engine Room as well.

1 out of 5 stars A poor imitation...............2001-05-18

Wow..... I'm so dissapointed...

This album is a very bad imitation of the great music that Narell made with Steve Erquiaga, Keith Jones, Kenneth Nash, Will Kennedy, etc.......

Music CD:

  1. Love-In: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium ~ Charles Lloyd
  2. Turtle Bay/Discotheque ~ Herbie Mann
  3. Take Me to the Land of Jazz ~ Billy Butterfield, Andy Bartha
  4. Fats Waller and His Rhythm: The Middle Years, Part 1 (1936-1938) ~ Fats Waller & His Rhythm
  5. A Piece of My Heart ~ Jazzamor
  6. Hi Voltage ~ Hank Mobley
  7. Another Bite of the Apple ~ Beatlejazz
  8. The Sound of Jazz ~ Various Artists
  9. Rush Hour ~ Bryan Savage
  10. Checkmate ~ Joe Pass with Jimmy Rowles

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Patience ~ Assorted Phlavors

117° ~ Izzy Stradlin

Sonnet ~ Verve

Dead Letters ~ Rasmus

Lost And Found

Pair a Dice Found ~ Hot Tuna

Fight or Flight ~ Katfood

Music From 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly' & 'A Fistful Of Dollars' & 'For A Few Dollars Mo

The Game Praise Me: Chopped and Screwed ~ Bodaiga

Hell on Earth [Edited Version] ~ Mobb Deep