Detour Ahead

Detour Ahead Artist: Randy Johnston
Label: Highnote
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 632375702724
EAN: 0632375702724
ASIN: B00005AU5L


Release Date: 2001-04-03

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Tracks:

  1. Blues For Edward G.
  2. The Triangle Pose
  3. A House Is Not A Home
  4. The End Of A Love Affair
  5. They Long To Be Close To You
  6. Two Step Snake
  7. Detour Ahead
  8. Dearly Beloved

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars not what I thought it would be.......2006-03-15

I thought this cd would be great but I was very disappointed with Randy Johnston playing. His ideas were very repetitive, and at times his playing was not very clean. I enjoyed Joey DeFrancesco

5 out of 5 stars Chillin'.......2001-11-18

I was driving through Greenfield, Wisconsin a few months ago, when the jazz radio station put on two cuts from this record, the Burt Bacharach/Hal David number A House Is Not A Home, and something from the Carpenters songbook, They Long To Be Close To You. I veered into a parking lot to jot down the artist, Randy Johnston, and the album, Detour Ahead, on a scrap of envelope paper as the DJ gave the name and title to me. I didn't think jazz musicians made records like this one any more. Recording at Van Gelder Recording Studio, just like those hep-cats Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Jack McDuff and John Patton back in the early 60s, Johnston and B-3 baron Joey DeFrancesco get that old Blue Note sound down so cold, you, the listener, will be shivering for days.

Johnston's axe is a Guild X-500 on which he can softly, slowly sing the melody to "A House Is Not A Home," then give the spotlight over to DeFrancesco whose keyboard touch makes me want to quote William Carlos Williams:

THIS IS JUST TO SAY

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Forgive me, if this sounds like hyperbole. DeFrancesco's lines on the B-3 are delicious, so sweet and so cold. I could eat them for breakfast.

I also need to mention the rest of the band, including David "Fathead" Newman and Houston Person on tenor sax and Byron Landham on drums. All three have played this music for a long time and it shows. Playing hot or cool, it's never studied. It's just reflex to them. Johnston can fire off notes lickety-split and the band's right there with him, yet giving him space for his guitar to breathe.

Is this the best jazz record of the year? You might want to back up and give it the award for the past five or ten. It's a disc free of gimmicks, only good tunes. As Larry Hollis says in his liner notes, "Unlike so many modern fretmen that employ flangers and numerous other devices, Johnston simply plays the guitar."

Get it. 'Nuff said.

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