Signals

Artist: Wayne Krantz
Label: Enja
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 063757604822
EAN: 0063757604822
ASIN: B000005C8P

Release Date: 2002-05-25

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Tracks:

Alliance
Faith In The Process
One Of Two
Don't Tell Me
As Is
Signals
Sossity; You're A Woman
Music Room
Two Of Two
For Susan

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Customer Reviews:

A breath of fresh air.......2005-05-16

This album is a breath of fresh air for a jazz enthusiast like myself. For me it's a new album even if it's been recorded in 1990. Anyway Wayne's guitar playing sounds really fresh and new even fifteen years after the recording of this album. His music is a sort of electric jazz very melodical but at the same time complex especially rithmically. The album is composed of combo tunes and of tunes where Wayne plays by himself. I can say that his approach to guitar playing is very deep harmonically, but he excels really in the rhytmic stuff. Not talking about comping stuff, I'm saying that he is great rhytmically in both phrasing and comping and evething in between the two ways of playing. Something you can't say of a lot of guitar players which usually are not so forward in terms of subdivisions. Even when Wayne plays by himself he is fantastic rhythmically ,,, you really have to hear him for yourself. And even when he plays with the band he gives and take a lot of rhytmic inputs. His style is very rich and dense. The album is very entertaining and melodical. A must have for the jazz (and jazz guitar) enthusiast. He plays his own music caught between his friend Mike Stern'stuff (less hendrixesque) and Pat Metheny (but without Pat's chromatic idiosyncrasies). He is a really new voice in Jazz guitar, probably the best I have heard recently. Catch him if you can.

The One of the Greatest, Unheralded Guitar Albums.......2005-05-10

This is without a doubt one of the best guitar albums ever. Krantz is a complete package with a unique and totally integrated harmonic and melodic signature on the guitar. He has a blazing, complex technique, but it always serves the music. And his tone...incredible. Considering that this was recorded in the mid-Eighties, it has absolutely NO smooth jazz influence or schmaltz and, in fact, was recorded to be the antithesis of that genre, while still merging the rock and jazz idioms in an approachable, commercial way. A complete artistic success, but unfortunately not a commercial one. If you have even the slightest interest in the electric guitar, this album is essential.

Too much fuzack!.......2002-12-17

Wayne Krantz is an exceptional talent and the solo pieces on this CD are first rate. But the tracks with the band just reek of the hell that is smooth jazz. "Two Drink Minimum" is a much better choice for the uninitiated.

Exuberant, exciting, creative masterpiece.......1999-09-28

This is an exciting original work by a very creative artist and performer. The flow of the music is hypnotic and full of energy. The sound expresses both breadth and depth of character and range. It is a "must" for jazz enthusiasts. Mr. Krantz's work is technically precise and musically unmatched.

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