Song

Song Artist: Marty Ehrlich
Label: Enja
Category: Music



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


UPC: 063757939627
EAN: 0063757939627
ASIN: B00005B6IL


Release Date: 2001-08-28

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Listmania:

  1. the most important jazz cats under 50
  2. Marty Ehrlich's presence is a indicator of greatness.

Tracks:

  1. Waltz
  2. The Price Of The Ticket
  3. Day Of The Dark Bright Light
  4. Blue Boye's Blues
  5. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
  6. Fauve
  7. The Falling Rains Of Life

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Downtown Sounds at Their Best.......2001-10-04

This is one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. I've always had an appreciation for Marty Ehrlich, but seldom has he sounded this good. There's a definite affinity between this cd and a recent one by Drew Gress, the noted bass player--and it goes beyond the fact that both disks share the same pianist, Uri Caine. Both seem to have reined in the raucousness and opted for a hard-won melodicism and tonality.

Of the two, Song is the better. Filled with many moments of rare beauty, everyone plays his butt off. Unlike many "outside" outings, there's a deep reliance on melody and compositional construction, with the solos logically arising out of a pre-established melodic matrix. The end result is hugely satisfying. A guest appearance by trombone virtuoso Ray Anderson, a frequent Ehrlich collaborator, knocks things slightly off kilter in a manic direction, but, as I frequently tell my wife and kids when they object to the more expressivist side of jazz, "They're just having fun!" And they are. And so will you, if you pick up this cd, which I strongly advise you to do.

Music CD:

  1. Moody Plays Mancini ~ James Moody
  2. For Sentimental Reasons
  3. Capuchin Swing ~ Jackie Mclean
  4. Colour Club ~ Colour Club
  5. Last Look ~ Torcuato Mariano
  6. Hiding in Plain Sight ~ Scott Whitfield
  7. Banded Together ~ Lee Ritenour
  8. West Coast: 1945-1949 ~ Charles Mingus
  9. Farmers Market ~ Stian Carstensen
  10. Born To Be Blue

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Live MC ~ Heather B.

Love Songs ~ Donny & Marie Osmond

Ladies Night ~ Atomic Kitten

Nexus ~ Argent

Something Better Change: Punk Junk ~ Various Artists

Two Sided Fantasy ~ Landslide

Split ~ The Groundhogs

Jackie Chan's First Strike / Rumble In The Bronx: Double Feature Soundtrack ~ J. Peter Robinson

Permanament ~ Gamma

Just Kickin' It ~ MC Breed