Child Within

Child Within Artist: Billy Childs
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music



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


UPC: 016351502322
EAN: 0016351502322
ASIN: B000000DRB


Release Date: 1996-08-20

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Tracks:

  1. Loverman
  2. The Loneliest Monk
  3. Aaron's Song
  4. The Hunted
  5. Theme From Chinatown
  6. Alone Together
  7. Pannonica
  8. Just Another Day
  9. Dreams
  10. I Have A Love

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best Childs Mainstream Jazz Date Yet.......2000-02-04

I presume that this album from a relatively unknown recording company, Shanachie Records, does not sell too well. What a disgrace! This album is Billy Childs in his prime! And the sound is marvelous! The tracks are a magnificent showcase of Billy Childs' jazz piano technique, which features his trademark thick and jagged comping and unpredictable piano phrasings. Billy Childs, I find, comps like no other and his lines are as inventive as Herbie Hancock's. His sidemen here are from the top brass, with the likes of Dave Holland, Terence Blanchard, and Jeff Watts.

One reason, I suppose, is that Childs is sometimes associated with New Age music. This is not one such album, as the album title and cover photo might suggest! Try listening to a "wild" version of the usually-played-at-midnight Lover Man; you'll have to turn the music down before your neighbor starts hollering about Blanchard's trumpet playing! All tracks are intense 4/4 purist jazz pieces, except for 1 meditative solo piano piece. Get this CD and re-live his Freddie Hubbard bop days!

Music CD:

  1. Pink Elephants ~ Ernie Carlson & Social Polecat
  2. Colours in Sound Big Band ~ Sal Salvador
  3. Kiss ~ Fantasy Band
  4. Live at the Great American Music Hall 1973, Vol. 1 ~ Stan Kenton
  5. Sweet Potato Eyebrows ~ Rick Gallagher
  6. New and Now! ~ Sue Raney
  7. Guitar Moods ~ Mundell Lowe
  8. Quartet With Ron Washington ~ Jomar Dragon
  9. Ever Before Ever After ~ Laszlo Gardony
  10. Wild Flower ~ Hubert Laws

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Baby Baby Baby ~ TLC

Are You a Dreamer? ~ Denison Witmer

Very Best of ~ Marmalade

Irrational Anthem ~ RPM

Atlantis ~ Earth and Fire

Dear Mr. Penis Head ~ Danielle LoPresti

Give It Away/I Like Your Lovin/(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People ~ The Chi-Lites

Rhyme & Reason: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ~ Various Artists

Making History ~ Screwed Up Click

Head Bussa ~ Lil Scrappy