Random Hearts: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Random Hearts: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Artist: Dave Grusin
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074645133621
EAN: 0074645133621
ASIN: B00001X592


Release Date: 1999-10-05

Random Hearts: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


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Tracks:

  1. Looking For Peyton
  2. Dutch
  3. Cabin Fever
  4. Playa Del Sul - Nestor Torres/Rene Toledo/Manny Lopez/Mike Orta
  5. Random Hearts (Love Theme)
  6. Phone Call Soliloquy
  7. The Folks Who Live On The Hill - Diana Krall
  8. Keys
  9. Aqui En Miami - Arturo Sandoval/Rene Toledo/Jorge Casas/Edwin Bonilla/Manuel 'Iggy' Castrillo
  10. Decisions
  11. Intimate Distance
  12. Passengers
  13. Personal Effects
  14. Seasonal Changes
  15. Closing In
  16. Good Thing - Patty Larkin

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two Thumbs Up.......2003-04-16

I'm just speechless. I'm floored. All I'll say is this: If you like listening to jazz, or anything soft as you sip on delicious wine infront of the fire place, then this is the album to invest in. It's easy and light listening. Very mellow, and peaceful. I won't recommend that one listen to this album if one is depress. However, if you are and this album happens to be in your cd player, track No.4 and No.9 are great up-tempo,merengue songs to lift the spirits.

5 out of 5 stars The original "midnight music" score........2003-03-08

I have most of Mr. Grusin's cd's and this is undoubtedly one of my favorites ("Two for the Road"-Mancini is the other). Regardless of how you did or did not like the movie, I think the music is terrific. The score also was uniquely suited to the film. Watch the movie without paying attention to the music and you find you can't ignore the extra layers Mr. Grusin added. I also love his ability to write great latin jazz as in "Playa Del Sul" and Aqui En Miami". I'm married to a jazz musician, daughter of another and mother to two more. We think this is NOT elevator music. This is not a hot jazz album with lots of improvisation, but a a great jazz score. Mr. Grusin continues Msncini's tradition of using the best of jazz in scores. I am grateful for his talent.

2 out of 5 stars Not much better than the movie.......2003-01-06

I listened to the CD a few times over a period of several weeks and was enjoying it. Yes, it was background music, yes, it was a bit repetitious, but it was ok as stand-alone music.

I decided to review it and started listening to it a bit more often. Then, a funny thing happened. The more I listened to it, the less I liked it. Generally, over time, I will grow to like CD's more. The musical version of "familiarity breeds contempt" almost never happens to me. However, it did this time, and so I began to sort out the reasons why.

1. It's really muzak masquerading as jazz. There's some improvisation, but not really a whole lot. Considering the people making the music, it's remarkably superficial. There is no impetus to the music - the parts in the quartet were not only sparse but rather lukewarm as well. The Cuban music has all the right rhythms and tempos but still something is missing upon repeated listenings. On balance, the CD literally is background music. Plus, it's very repetitious. Perhaps repetitious superficiality is appropriate to enhance a movie, but not as a stand alone recording, and that is how I am evaluating this CD.

2. Very short pieces and durations - 16 pieces, less than 51 minutes total. I like musicians to stretch out when possible, particularly on ballads.

3. The performances of the quartet, the vocalists and the Cuban band are very disjoint in style and each needs to be more fully explored.

4. Terrance Blanchard, Arturo Sandoval and the other name musicians have all performed better in other settings.

However, the vocal cuts are adequate and the instrumental music can be tolerable if the CD is not listened to frequently. That is why I'm going to keep this CD for awhile. Still, it's a disappointment.

4 out of 5 stars Random Hearts trailer music.......2002-06-09

Does anyone know what the music is in the 'Random Hearts' trailer
?

5 out of 5 stars

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