Sky Dance

Sky Dance Artist: Jon Ballantyne
Label: Justin Time Records
Category: Music



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


UPC: 068944003020
EAN: 0068944003020
ASIN: B0000021AW


Release Date: 2007-01-04

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Tracks:

  1. Oh What I've Been Thru
  2. Skydance
  3. You And The Night And The Music
  4. Opus IV
  5. BYO Blues
  6. You Don't Know What Love Is
  7. Blues Connotation

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bring your own blues.......2000-09-13

Canadian pianist Jon Ballantyne, a native of Saskatoon, SK, made his debut as a leader with this album, which was recorded in Montreal, PQ, for the local Justin Time label. Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson was still a few years away from being rediscovered by the general jazz-community, but plays with absolute mastery on this CD, which is a reissue of the original album with a bonus track added (Ornette Coleman's "Blues Connotation"). Henderson's powerful playing seems to inspire all involved, as they run through a set of standards ("You and the night and the music", "You don't know what love is", and the Coleman-track) and Ballantyne-originals. These latter tunes are excellent launching pads for Henderson and Ballantyne alike, but they also stand firm as compositions in their own right. The band plays with fire and invention and never seem to run short of ideas. The opening-track ("Oh what I've been thru") runs for over 12 minutes and never gets repetitive. Beautifully recorded, with a slight reservation for Jerry Fuller's drums perhaps, which at times seem a bit tinny. A more than convincing debut for Ballantyne to say the least !

Music CD:

  1. On Fire ~ Les DeMerle
  2. Sunset Glow ~ Julie Tippetts
  3. Passages ~ Steve Wilson
  4. Moodsville, Volume 1 ~ Red Garland Trio with Eddie Lockjaw Davis
  5. Big Band Swing Classics, Vol. 1 ~ Ralph Carmichael
  6. Side by Side ~ Richie Cole with Phil Woods
  7. Down & Depressed: Dangerous ~ Joe %22Guitar%22 Hughes
  8. After Hours, Vol. 3 ~ David Hazeltine
  9. Rendezvous ~ Jerome Harris
  10. Live at the Montreal Bistro ~ Kenny Wheeler & Sonny Greenwich Quintet

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Prophetess ~ Prophetess

Maplewood ~ Ed Harcourt

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Live in London 2000 ~ Samson

Promise ~ Wind & Fire Earth

Shaq-Fu: Da Return ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Joy ~ Blackstreet

Black Life ~ Chris Lowe