Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project

Artist: Charlie Watts & Jim Keltner
Label: Higher Octave
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724384869526
EAN: 0724384869526
ASIN: B00004T9SP

Release Date: 2000-05-23

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Tracks:

Shelby Manne
Art Blakey
Kenny Clarke
Tony Williams
Roy Haynes
Max Roach
Airto
Billy Higgins
Elvin Suite

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Customer Reviews:

Jaffa Cakes.......2006-09-08

This double album is as luxurious on the lugs as a sun-warmed bicycle seat is on the haunches. I picked it up for a couple of kopeks on a recent trip to Dublin and play it every time I do the wash-up, which is breakfast, dinner and tea on weekends and holidays and just dinnertime on weekdays. This is hands down the best washing-up music I've ever heard. Goes on for ages too without anything even approximating a botch in its brush and stick work. Charlie Watts is a genuine Mahubba Bubba, ain't he? Hasn't ever in my estimation put a foot wrong and by all accounts he's a decent skin too and will come down and talk to the punters between sets when he's over there at Ronnie Scott's. Don't know much about the other felly but he's obviously a mate of Charlie's so he's not likely to be any old teapot, now is he? The record is totally game ball in any case and it really doesn't matter which disk you have on at the time, they're both yummy chocolate-topped, orange-filled sponge cakes. Made in fact even more delicious by the self-aggrandising critical response you are apt to encounter here by certain jazz purists and at least one wallaby who seems to think he's defending Art Blakey against the grossest racial insult. Weeping Jeebus but can you imagine having an actual conversation with these jokers? Me, I'd rather go to an all-night dentist but, as I say, that's just me, thin-skinned when it comes to junior achiever sensitivity training and bogus beatnik hauteur masquerading as customer comments. These absurd observations do serve a purpose though in that they make me like Charlie and Jim's collaborative bongo fest all the more--I mean who could honestly fail to enjoy almost everything inputters like these might choose to disparage? So crank this drum set way up, pull on your rubber gloves and make them bubbles fly.

you've got to be kidding.......2005-12-02

This is a joke, and I, nor the rest of the musical community should be laughing. If you like the 'grooves' on this cd (which are limp and lukewarm at best), then fine - just stop insulting real drummers and take their names off of the tracks - there's ZERO correlation. If there was any, it would be a racist one - Art Blakey - the blackest of the black drummers named on this cd - has a track full of African jungle drums and sounds under his name?
Attention all rockstar/producers: please invest your accumulated tour and royalty money into charities and quit using it to create musical abominations...humanity deserves better.

Something for Drummers and Dancers.......2004-09-02

Both Watts and Keltner have played on countless great rock albums, but neither are really great jazz drummers; that's okay, as there's really not much on this album that could be taken for jazz. Most of it is based on the eighth-note ostinato that characterizes the bulk of rock music. It's all interesting, to a point, but I don't think there's much here that has the timelessness of a good Stones album or any number of great Keltner-backed album.

Charlie is the best.......2003-11-25

There was a time in the 1980s when the Rolling Stones were about to split forever.
Mick Jagger had just released his first solo record (She's the Boss), and all the other Stones were busy working on their solo projects. Keith recorded Jumpin'Jack Flash with Ronnie Wood and Aretha Franklin, Keith produced a documentary on Chuck Berry (Hail Hail Rock and Roll), Keith did his solo album (Talk is Cheap). Ronnie Wood went on tour with Bo Diddley and recorded a Live at the Ritz. And there is Charlie Watts.
Charlie Watts' solo career is probably the most diversified, the most interesting of a Stone alone. The reason is that why the other Stones tend to replicate the Stones'magic formual on their own, Charlie does instead entirely different things. Charlie's first record was with the Charlie Watts Orchestra and it made masterful renditions of Jazz masterpieces from Stomping at the Savoy to Moonglow. Charlie's second solo project was a tribute to Charlie Parker. Then Charlie recorded two albums with the Charlie Watts Quintet--Warm and Tender (1993), and Long Ago and Far Away (1996) featuring Bernard Fowler, who has been the Rolling Stones' backing vocalist in the past three tours, as lead singer. The last of Charlie Watts'solo projects is Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project (2000). This is probably the most interesting and the most unexpected record from a Rolling Stone. The record makes in fact an interesting combination of ethic/world music and high tech --sequenced sounds, programs, that is all those instruments and things that are not to be found in any Rolling Stones record. The sound of Africa and Asia echo respectively in the elvin suite, and billy higgins. The Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project is really unusual and it's fun to listen to.

Drum & Bass with Brains.......2001-07-13

Each time a new tune would get going and I'd be getting into the groove I kept thinking to myself "unbelievable!" This is fantastic stuff...

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