Silent Feet

Artist: Eberhard Weber Colours
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD

UPC: 781182110724
EAN: 0781182110724
ASIN: B0000031Q1

Release Date: 1994-06-14

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Tracks:

Seriously Deep
Silent Feet
Eyes That Can See In The Dark

Customer Reviews:

REQUIRED LISTENING.......2000-10-17

"Silent Feet" is a FANTASTIC classic record from the '70s-- an ABSOLUTE MUST for all JAZZ fans and all Fusion fans alike. It is a slowly building, meditative yet truly FIRE-BREATHING, supervirtuoso record of sublime depth with great, vintage ECM sound.

Charlie Mariano's saxophone is just UNREAL, you will never hear playing like this anywhere. The lines he squeezes out of his soprano! Weber is the GOD of electro-acoustic bass and needs no introduction; all bass players of advanced skill bow to the man. Rainer Bruninghaus is one of the greatest keyboard players no one's ever heard of, and John Marshall (of Soft Machine fame) provides the rock edge to the proceedings on drums.

a smokin' fusion record albeit without guitar.......2000-02-24

Charlie Mariano (who also played on Mingus's classic "Black Saint" record)absolutely smokes on this record. His breakneck saxophone solos on top of Weber's awesome bass and Rainer's keyboards are some of the best I've ever heard (as good as Bill Evans on "Sea of Fertility"). Too bad you can't listen to it here because the tracks take a while to get going, they sort of ease into the fire, which is cool. Listening to them on here you might think they were new age. Nothing could be further than the truth. "Silent feet" is an absolute must for any self-respecting fusion aficionado.

Seriously Weber.......2000-01-14

Much of Weber's best work is getting to be harder and harder to come by in the States, and it's a bloody shame. I might ultimately rank "Yellow Fields" as his best, but of the releases readily available around these parts, "Silent Feet" more or less takes the cake, if simply for the first track. Weber's stylistic ways and means have always been mysterious, juxtaposing free improvisation with a third stream sensibility, modal jazz with through-composed tone poems. At the risk of pigeonholing the genre, this is one of those albums that encapsules the definitive "ECM sound". Seeing this on CD for once, I am tempted to dream of a day when albums like "The Following Morning" and Weber's keyboard mainstay Rainer Bruninghaus' "Freigeweht" will appear in local music stores... pick this one up while you can.

Truly Wonderful.......2000-01-06

If you enjoyed his work with Ralph Towner you absolutly love this. Over the years I keep coming back to this album again and again. This is jazz with complexity, but don't let that scare you away. It's certainly not "free jazz" either. Give it a try, you'll enjoy it.

One of the unsung bass greats' finest.......1999-12-04

Eberhard's '70's work with Colours has gone largely unnoticed in the States, overshadowed by Weather Report and Return to Forever. It's a shame, because Colours was just as talented and more inspiring. Seriously Deep has one of Eberhard's finest solo's, demonstrating his Scott LaFaro-esque facility on the electric upright bass, as well as his melodic sense. The other musicians also turn in monstrous performances, which I wish I had time to detail. Rainer Bruinghaus is a standout -- his acoustic piano work is just flawless. A wonderful disc for the fusion fan. (And anyone else!)

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