Soul Eyes

Artist: Jimmy Ponder
Label: Muse Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016565551420
EAN: 0016565551420
ASIN: B000008OSF

Release Date: 1995-02-21

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Jimmy Ponder as a leader+sideman

Tracks:

Kansas City
Soul Eyes
All Blues
Sun Song
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
You Are Too Beautiful
Love Can Be A Lonely Place
You Don't Have To Go

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Customer Reviews:

A completely biased review!.......2006-01-18

It's a great album, and yeah, those are my eyes from when I was about 12. Hee! My father has fingers of lightning : ), and is a fantastic artist. Buy this!

Ponder with Person...and Benny Green.......2003-09-23

As stated in the previous review, the title of this CD is "Soul Eyes". The picture is of Jimmy's daughter. Like Anders laid out, the format is a familiar one, with Ponder's favorite mix of blues groovers and standards, and the ballads he loves so. Jimmy will tell you that the studio is not the most comfortable place for him - he thrives on the 'give-and-take' from a Live audience, even to the point of not using a microphone to announce tunes, band members...himself, etc. He loves the intimacy of equality. Much like quantum physics, he believes that the observer is an integral part of the observed. Believe me, when you come away from a Jimmy Ponder Live date, you take a piece of Ponder home with you in your pocket! Again, 4 stars, only because the best is yet to come. Take that to the bank...

Blues . Soul & Emotion in one package.......2002-03-08

I think that the corrrect name of this album is SOUL EYES and not sad eyes as indicated here.
This recording is from 1991, but well on the same artistic level as later albums from Ponder. Here we have Ponders usual "brew" of
Heavy Blues Swingers (Kansas City) Funk(All Blues)Standards(You are too beautiful) and Blues (You dont have to go) and that mix works. Ponder plays the simple riff on Kansas City single string.and he can "outline the groove" like noone else on tunes like this.Another highlight is "You are too beautiful" where Ponders solo will take any jazzguitar nut to "heaven"
Houston Persons sax playing is awesome he takes solo after solo that are loaded with soul and emotion.For Benny Green on piano I suppose this was pretty early in his career, but his playing is very mature and soulful here.
If you are an addicted Ponder fan (like me)this one is a must have... as well as for any jazzguitarfan of the jazz that came out of the sixties.

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