Catch

Catch Artist: Jesse Van Ruller
Label: Universal/Polygram
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988005259547
ASIN: B00005HRK9


Release Date: 2000-12-20

Related Categories:

General General
Related | Jazz | Styles | Music

Listmania:

  1. Ten Dutch and Belgium Gems

Tracks:

  1. Secret Champ
  2. New Feet
  3. Silent Blue Hour
  4. Victory
  5. End Of Love Affair
  6. Ever After
  7. Harry's New Year
  8. My Ideal
  9. Ever After (Quart Et Ver)

Similar Items:

  1. in pursuit
  2. Murphy's Law

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars From another universe.......2001-12-02

Jesse van Ruller is from another universe: that of the godgiven talent for whom nothing seems impossible....His effortless playing is not about grooves but about ideas. On "Catch!" these are best displayed in the up-tempo pieces. And with the complex refinement of compositions like "Victory" and "Harry's Ears" van Ruller proves that jazz can go just as deep as "real" classical music.

3 out of 5 stars Moving along (but not quite getting there).......2001-05-05

I loved Jesse's first album, European Quintet. It's the kind of recording that catches you the first time around and never gets old. His second album, Herbs, Fruits, Balms, and Spices, was very different. It has a more tropical feel to it, but again pulled me in at once.

Catch, on the other hand, never really caught my ear. The CD would finish and I'd realize I had almost forgotten it was on. It starts with a funky tune that almost rocks out, but just doesn't make it over the hump. The rest of the album is similar: more up-beat than the first two, but often not quite getting there. Jesse's playing is mature and expressive, his band is solid, and Roy Hargrove (among others) adds some beautiful playing, but somehow it all falls just short of where it should be.

His concert at STB 139 in Tokyo (April, 2001) was based mostly on tunes from Catch, and was similarly disappointing. It would be interesting to see this truly gifted guitarist move out of 'pure jazz' category, and just do his own thing.

Music CD:

  1. Best of Passion Jazz ~ Various Artists
  2. Live from the Ambassador ~ Larry Elgart
  3. Havin' Fun ~ Jay McShann & Major Holley
  4. Danne & Gold ~ Danne & Gold
  5. Inside Out ~ Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack Dejohnette
  6. The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording ~ John Coltrane
  7. Jazz From Paris/Dizzy and Strings ~ Dizzy Gillespie
  8. Saxophone: Jazz Indispensable ~ Various Artists
  9. Miles Blend ~ Kazuko Hashimoto
  10. Jazz Indispensables: Standards ~ Various Artists

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Ballers ~ 504 Boyz

Before These Crowded Streets ~ Dave Matthews Band

Hit the City ~ Mark Lanegan

Open Heart ~ Cynthia Lynn Douglass

Redbook Relaxers: Dreamscape ~ Various Artists

The Best of 1961-1966 ~ Orlons

Still

Then & Now & Wow ~ The Jets

I Shed Tears for the World ~ Crazy

Detonator Records 1 ~ Various Artists