Easy Street

Artist: Dave McKenna
Label: Concord Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 013431465720
EAN: 0013431465720
ASIN: B0000006OJ

Release Date: 1995-06-20

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Tracks:

Broadway
Basin Street Blues
Street Of Dreams
Don't Forget 127th Street
Easy Street
On Green Dolphin Street
On The Street Where You Live
Cat's Cradle
My Honey's Lovin' Arms
When Your Lover Has Gone
Now That You're Gone
After You've Gone
Gone With The Wind
Theodore The Thumper

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Customer Reviews:

Something new each time.......2007-02-15

Put simply, this is a great CD. If you're not sure about which jazz piano CD to buy as a gift for a friend or maybe for yourself, make the decision easy - buy two of this one. Give one away, keep one for yourself, and listen to it a few times. You'll find something new each time. Dave's sytle is so rich, fluid, swinging, musical, and fast, that you just can't hear it all in one go. Incredibly, it sometimes sounds as if there are four hands playing. At others you simply can't take your ears off of his amazing swinging bass lines. Then all of a sudden he surprises you by seemlessly dropping in a few lush chords, then goes back to the swinging line, all the while jsmming with the right hand. It's just great music.

Very nice.......2006-08-22

If you've ever heard Dave McKenna play in a live setting, chances are you've heard him string together, in medley fashion, a number of songs similar in title. He does the same thing here - twice: first a number of tunes with "Street" in their titles and then a bunch more with "Gone" as part of their names, and they're not performed as medleys but as individual tunes. It's a clever approach and gives the impression that Dave must know a thousand songs, which he probably does. It's also true that McKenna is definitely a two-handed piano player with his left hand often being the dominant one. On medium-up and up-tempo performances his pounding left hand pushes the playing along briskly, with each chorus coming across more dramatically than the last. BROADWAY, DON'T FORGET 127th STREET, and MY HONEY'S LOVIN' ARMS all get this powerful treatment. On the slower tunes we get two different approaches, one tender and very restrained (EASY STREET, GONE WITH THE WIND), the other not at all tender but robust and even wrenching in its extraction of the tunes' beauty (WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE, AFTER YOU'VE GONE). This dichotomy in his ballad playing is most interesting and appealing. Dave McKenna is a wonderful piano player; fans of his playing will be happy with this CD.

My favorite cd of all time!.......2003-11-29

This is a great CD by the virtiouso piano great Dave McKenna(only a jerk off would give this less than 4 stars), a great cd, well worth getting more tahn one copy of!

A perfect desert island disc..........2003-11-29

The is perhaphs the PERFECT jazz cd, I love it, it's so ROMANTIC. This is a jazz cd you'll want to keep one in each of your cars and at your house, so buy at least 3. A great jazz cd, what great jazz piano playing you'll discover! BUy at least 3.

Dave was way off base with this recording.......2001-02-20

This is one of the many cds I have in my collection by DM. In the case of this cd, i'm embrassed to own it. It really came up short of what I have come to expect from this master jazz pianist.

Dave seemed like he was in another world while playing on this cd. I never could seem to feel his pulse or the soul he was trying to convey. I know it is hard to always top your past performances, but this is not the Dave McKenna I have come to appreciate.

I want my money back!

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