L'uovo [Import]

1. Milano E Vincenzo

2. La Nena Del Salvador

3. La Sedia Di Lilla

4. Settembre

5. Fragole Infinite

6. La Grande Grotta

7. Dentro Un Sogno

8. Vita Ch'e Vita

9. Qui La Luna

Editorial Reviews

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Of all the laudatory epithets applicable to Barbara Bonney, the term "radiant" might not be the one that springs to mind--at least, not insofar as it suggests the warm luxuriance of sunshine. Bonney's light, bright lyric soprano is something else: a voice of delicate refinement and transparent, pure-toned beauty. But it's capable of silkily seductive textures, too. And there are wonderful examples on this compilation disc that, if featuring a less-established artist, might qualify as a demo tape. Most of the tracks are previously issued, but together, they define her capabilities and home-base repertory, from Bach, Purcell, and Mozart through to Scandinavian song and Richard Strauss. With "Morgen," "Solveigs Sang," "The Presentation of the Rose" from Der Rosenkavalier, and "Ach, ich Fuhls" from The Magic Flute, this is a catalog of silver, if not golden, moments. Jewel-like singing and pure joy to hear. --Michael White

Tracks:

Road Runner
Shame, Shame, Shame
Eyesight To The Blind
Baby, Please Don't Go
Never Loved A Girl
Back Back Train
You Gotta Move
The Grind
I'm Ready
Temperature
Stop Messin' Around
Jesus Is On The Mainline

Customer Reviews:

Aerosmith and the Blues...a match made in heaven!.......2007-06-16

I had several questions when purchasing this disc:

1) Aerosmith has been back on the scene now for twenty years after their initial fall from grace. Do they have ANYTHING left to say at this point?

2) Isn't the Blues a more or less a dead art form akin to Latin as a spoken language? I mean, when was the last time you heard a great new blues record? Hasn't it all been done? Why not just listen to Muddy Waters' "Hard Again" or B.B. King's "Live At the Regal" and save some money?

3) Can Aerosmith actually play the blues convincingly? In other words, can they be true to the art form and still make it their own?

4) Is the record as ridiculous as the title seems to be at first glance?

One listen to this disc will tell you that the blues is alive and well, Aerosmith is alive and well, and yes (Virginia) they not only play the blues, they wear it out! And the title actually grows on you in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way. They obviously attacked this project with some real passion and intensity. Nothing about this recording sounds forced or put-on. They're not trying to live up to anyone's expectations other than their own. And you know what? They're a great band, and if they think it's good, they're probably right most of the time. They resurrected some great old songs that probably haven't seen the light of day in many years. I've never heard a better version of "Road Runner".

Buy the disc and crank it up. They did a wonderful job.

best blues cd ever!.......2007-03-31

Aerowsmith did an awesome job with the blues on this cd. The guitars, drums, and Steven's harmonica sounds amazing. I love this cd.

What Were They Thinking?.......2007-03-12

I thought for sure that most Aerosmith fans would feel like I do,that Honkin On Bobo was just about the worst musical idea since N'Sync
but after browsing through the reviews,I find myself in the minority

so I would recommend reading this review and the rest of the reviews and base your decision on your choice of musical taste
what I enjoy might be different then what you enjoy

After releasing some of the best music ever created 'Permanent Vacation''Pump' 'Get a grip' 'nine lives' 'just push play' the band could have continued on the path...great songwriting equals hit singles...but someone decided to 'go back to their roots' and release a total blues album...one reviewer said it wasn't really blues,it was more like their 70s work..well,everyone is entitled to their opinion but there is NOTHING like mama kin or walk this way or sweet emotion on this album...it all sounds like blues to me
if this was just an average blues band,I'd give 'em a thumbs up and say 'way to go' but this is Aerosmith...alot of people come down on them for songs like 'don't want to miss a thing' but that song is genius,that's why it's stuck in everyone's head for all these years...when's the last time you found yourself humming 'you gotta move'? What song is that? Well,that's my point,it's on here and I can't think of a reason..
I give 'em some credit for having courage to try something new even when they were so successful,that's why it isn't a 1 star review...and I also give them credit for coming back to good solid songwriting (the new singles off their latest greatest hits album sound every bit as good as anything off 'Nine Lives') but this release,sorry guys,in my opinion,sucks!

I've listened to it many times,hoping it would grow on me,but the only song I like is Back Back Train (it's got the perfect beat for ummm well,dancing,yeah that's it,dancing),it is a great song but the rest of the album is so forgetable (much like Joe Perry's solo release,but don't get me started)

the upside - they tried an experiment but it didn't work,they had guts,and back back train is an awesome song

the downside - it sucks! If they would have released each of these songs 1 at a time on a regular Aerosmith rock album it would have been fine,but a whole album of this stuff feels like torture

the bottom line - unless you are a die-hard blues fan,run from this album,there is almost nothing memorable and it sounds nothing like aerosmith...instead buy 'Young Lust' and 'O Yeah' to hear what Aerosmith really sounds like...donutman says so!!!

One of the best yet.......2007-02-27

Next to "Permanent Vacation" this album is one of their best. If you are a blues fan it is a must have! Aerosmith are at their best of this CD.

The Band Plays It Too Safe....It Should Have Been Better.......2007-01-25

Ok, now here is something different. Aerosmith's blues album. I have grown a great affinity for good blues over the past decade or so, and I was really looking forward to seeing what the band could do with straight blues. Aerosmith's music has been rooted in the blues over the years, and has usually pulled out at least one or two traditional blues songs on most of their records. Unfortunately I think they tried to play it a bit safe on this one. This is blues, but it is commercial blues for the most part. They keep things fairly mainstream I am guessing to try not to put off their traditional fan base. The majority of the songs on this disc are covers, with only one original song in the bunch, "The Grind" which sounds like it could have fit on any other Aerosmith album and is not all that bluesy. Actually two of my favorite tracks on this album are the ones Joe Perry sings. "Back Back Train" is a great sleazy blues number with killer background vocals from Tracy Bonham. Bonham is also used quite effectively on the gospel tinged "Jesus Is On The Main Line" which closes the album. Perry's other featured track "Stop Messin Around" features some nice guitar work from him. The rest of the album consists of fairly well known blues standards, most of which have been covered by other rockers at one time or another, "Road Runner", "Eyesight To The Blind" (The Who), "Baby Please Don't Go" (Ted Nugent and others), "You Gotta Move" (Rolling Stones). Again, I feel the band was playing it a bit safe with these selections. All in all the album is good and quite different from the rest of their latter day catalogue, but I think it could have been a stronger album if they had taken more risks.

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some great stuff here
A Forgotten Icon of 60's Pop Culture
A five-star mixed review
William Correa (aka Willie Bobo) Classics
Fried Neckbones & Some Home Fries

Spanish Grease/Uno Dos Tres 1-2-3
Willie Bobo
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000046TI
Release Date: 1994-10-18

Tracks:

Spanish Grease
Hurt So Bad
It's Not Unusual
Our Day Will Come
Haitian Lady
Blues In The Closet
Nessa
Elation
It's Not Unusual (Instrumental)
Shotgun/Blind Man, Blind Man
Boogaloo In Room
Come A Little Bit Closer
Goin' Out Of My Head
I Remember Clifford
Rescue Me
Michelle
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
Fried Neck Bones & Some Home Fries
Ol' Man River
One, Two, Three
Night Song
The Breeze & I

Customer Reviews:

some great stuff here.......2006-07-03

Willie Bobo is the guy who popularized the "boogaloo" sound. These two CD's showcases this style from the mid 60's. It's a combination of pop, latin and jazz all rolled into one. A couple of the cuts are classics (Spanish Grease, and Fried Neck Bones). Spanish Grease is the inspiration for No-one To Depend On by Santana, almost note for note.

A Forgotten Icon of 60's Pop Culture.......2003-03-22

In the 60's, Willie Bobo created a bridge between Popular and Latin music using an ensemble of instruments that included electric bass and guitar and no keyboards. He used Popular songs and transformed them with Latin rhythms to create a truly unique sound. This allowed for an entire industry of songs to be created by many great artists and composers. Using Willie as an inspiration, Santana created many of his signature styles from these early recordings. If you listen to the music used in the first Austin Powers movie, you will hear Willie's style being used to signify the 60's culture. This man was never given credit for his contribution to the American Pop Culture of the 60's and beyond.

A five-star mixed review.......2002-06-15

This cd would be six stars if possible if all the other tracks but 'Spanish Grease' and 'Fried Neckbones and Some Homefries'. were removed. As it is, it gets a five. Grooves don't get any better than this.

William Correa (aka Willie Bobo) Classics.......2001-04-06

Can something recorded nearly fifty years ago sound fresh today? The answer is yes.....and no. The classic cuts from these two reissues are magnificent examples of where the merging of r&b, jazz and latin music were heading, unfortunately pop got in the way. The standout tracks make this CD worth the price, you can always skip over the songs that attempted to win over the pop audiences of the time. Of the two CD's here on one disc probably "Spanish Grease" is the better of the two. The best tracks are those con sabor(tasty) like the classic "Fried Neck Bones and Some Home Fries" easily the best song with its refrain played over jazzy chops and incessant timbales,"Spanish Grease" the original Willie Bobo penned song with its quajira refrain and soulful interplay of English and Spanish, "Hurt So Bad" is one of the few times the recreation of a pop standard works on the CD, it's much better than Little Anthony and The Imperials hit verson of the times, well that and "It's not Unusual" where Bobo takes a rare lead vocal complete with thick accent English or is that Spanish? It is a fun CD, full of latin jazz as it was and even where it shouldn't have been. A bit of nostalgia, an original blend of cultures on wax that sounds as fresh today as yesterday, if you're old enough to remember of course. A bargain for latin jazz affionados, a classic timbale band leader brought back to life on CD for a listen to a sound that influenced the future of hybrid latin jazz and roc. The accompanying booklet adds to the historical significance of these recordings, complete with original liner notes from the original albums.

Fried Neckbones & Some Home Fries.......2000-09-29

Beat Takeshi, the Japanese doppelganger of Robert De Niro, gets into his stolen police car, a black Lexus IS 200 (ok tex, you have an IS 300, so??). He unzips the sunroof, fold's down his Beat Takeshi Raybans (as featured in the Japanese Ganster flick "Hana Bi") jumps in 3rd gear to 100kmh and slowly screams "Fried Neck Bones and Some Fries". Again and again.

The security guard looks at me, my ID pass, and waves me into the car park. I meekly make Willie go quiet. Beat would have let it blare and stared inscrutably.

Tracks:

A.I.R.
Kukka
Hasta Siempre
Witchi-Tai-To
Desireless

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This 1974 session by the Garbarek-Bobo Stenson quartet is an important chapter in the rise of the ECM style, a shift toward a more spacious, deliberated music. Although the tunes are drawn from mostly American jazz sources and the influence of the John Coltrane quartet looms large, it's also beginning to define a distinctively Scandinavian style, a combination of cool textures, open harmonies, and intense lyricism. It comes as much from the rhythm section as from Garbarek's own linear, melodic focus, with pianist Stenson, and bassist Palle Danielsson using spare ostinatos in support and drummer Jon Christensen coloring the music with cymbals and brushes. They're heard in a well-balanced program, with each piece revealing another facet of the group. Garbarek's soprano is a keening presence on Carla Bley's "A.I.R.," while his tenor is all brooding Spanish passion on Carlos Puebla's "Hasta Siempre," propelled by Christensen's march rhythms. Danielsson's "Kukka," the sole original, is highlighted by the bassist's own melodic solo, while hints of the blues suffuse Stenson's spare opening to Jim Pepper's "Witchi-Tai-To." The 20-minute version of Don Cherry's "Desireless" has a majestic, unfolding lyricism that's both distinctive and the CD's strongest homage to the Coltrane style. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews:

One of Garbarek's Best Albums.......2006-04-19

"Witchi-Tai-To" released in 1974 on ECM stands as a great introduction to jazz music and also to the saxophone style of Jan Garbarek. First of all, Jan's one of the great saxophone players of our time. He's very melodic and he doesn't rely on nasty squawks and noises to make his saxophone playing interesting (not that making noise is interesting).

Jan is joined by Bobo Stenson on piano, Palle Danielsson on bass, and Jon Christensen on drums, which also make up Keith Jarrett's European quartet (check out the albums "Belonging" and "My Song"). I was really impressed with the piano work of Bobo Stenson, but all the musicians that contributed are incredible. Jon Christensen's drumming is very fluid and he's been one of my favorite drummers for many years now. Palle Danielsson does a great job at the deep end, guiding the melodies along in a very relaxed manner.

"Witchi-Tai-To" remains one of the greatest jazz recordings in the 70s in my opinion. I listen to this album alot.

If you like Jan Garbarek's playing I also recommend Ralph Towner's "Solstice," his own "Twelve Moons," and any album he played with Keith Jarrett on.

Six Stars.......2001-09-01

My number one Jazz album of all time. Co-leaders Jan Garbarek and Bobo Stenson make possibly the best use of the ECM 'house rhythm section' (Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen) on a wonderful selection of 'non-Standard' compositions. The spotlight is shared the group and the compositions (including one by bassist Danielsson.) Stunning intuitive interplay, passionate intensity and heart-wrenching beauty;

Desirable (highly).......2001-04-30

Although this album was recorded in 1973 by four young, then relatively unknown, Nordic jazz musicians, I didn't get to hear it until 1977 when a student I met at a Weather Report concert introduced me to the LP. It blew my mind, and I have been steadily accumulating Jan Garbarek albums ever since.

For me, this is one of the least Nordic of my Garbarek albums. He wrote none of the tracks himself -- highly uncharacteristic of his output over the past 20 years -- and indeed most were written by American jazz composers, such as Cherry and Bley (C.). Only one track was written by a band member: Palle Danielsson's 'Kukka', a title which sounds like a piece of furniture you can buy from IKEA.

As an LP, this was a highly unbalanced selection. Side Two was simply magnificent, so Side One hardly got played at all, even though it contained at least two decent tracks. Hopefully with CD, tracks 1-3 should get a fairer hearing.

But tracks 4 and 5 are gorgeous. For me, this is the definitive version of 'Witchi-Tai-To' -- although Garbarek commemorated it by re-recording it for the ECM anniversary special CD, 'Twelve Moons'. It's probably Stenson's delicate piano-playing that makes it for me. And then comes the sublime 'Desireless', in which Garbarek alternates between harsh and beautiful tones on the intro, and then we get a very solid groove delivered by the bass, quite unlike anything else that I own of Garbarek's. After a wonderfully long piece of interplay between bass, piano and drums, Garabarek re-enters and, to my mind, messes it up. It's unusual for me to rate a piece so highly when I dislike a passage within it, but I guess it shows how strong most of it is.

Fans who only found Garabarek in the 1990s will be very pleased by this album of twenty years earlier. The standard of musicianship is just as high, and the sound is just ... well, different. As you might expect of an older recording, there is some tape hiss on the quieter passages.

Coltrane-influenced Garbarek.......2001-04-21

A "state-of-the-art" album by Garbarek & Co. Was recorded the same year as the famous "BELONGING" with the same rhythm-section (Palle Danielsson-bass, Jon Christensen-drums) but with swedish Bobo Stenson on piano instead of Keith Jarrett. This Garbarek is soo different from Garbarek in Jarrett's quartets (more Coltrane-ian, less restrained) yet he still yields a great performance. HASTA SIEMPRE is my favorite piece - a kind of Scandinavian Flamenco, has the same chrod progression (Am-G-F-E). Also check another version of Jim Pepper's Witchi-Tai-To, a piece recorded several times by Garbarek (also on TWELVE MOONS) and Ralph Towner & OREGON (albums WINTER LIGHT, OUT OF THE WOODS, etc.)

Stunning, Mandatory Jazz.......2000-12-08

My roommate at college introduced me to the ECM label through Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert and two very obscure releases from a bass player named Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes and Three Day Moon (all 3 releases named above are highly recommended, by the way!). This marked my conversion from rock music to jazz, and I set out to the local bookstore to browse the bins (we are talking 21 years ago, so one could still enjoy flipping the album covers). I decided to purchase 3 ECM jazz releases - Ralph Towner's Solstice, Sound and Shadows (superb!), the John Abercrombie Quartet, and Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tai-To.

I am embarrassed to relate how many ECMs I now have in my collection, but it can be assured that Witchi-Tai-To remains a very important centerpiece, music that stands the test of time and always sounds fresh and challenging. The first cut, A.I.R. (all-India Radio), is a reworking of a Carla Bley tune that first appeared in a very different format and sound on the bizarre but wonderful Escalator Over The Hill. A great tune, and superb way to start the CD. Tunes 2 and 3 are fine, but the real gems are Jim Pepper's Witchi-Tai-To (which you could hum all day, as it drills itself into your memory), and the great tune Desireless. Garbarek plays more tenor on this release than he currently does, and his tone is warm and rich, though not cloying at all. The rhythym section of Palle Daniellsen (bass) and Jon Christensen (drums) is still the one of choice for those who record on ECM - just great, great players. And, Bobo Stenson, at the time of the recording somewhat obscure, is now perhaps THE piano player most desired for recording sessions on ECM. If you own or have heard this CD, I am telling you nothing new. If you do not own it, do yourself and your ears a favor...and buy it!

Lost and Found
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Better late then never !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honkin' on Bobo

Good stuff

Lost and Found
Willie Bobo
Manufacturer: Concord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Standards Rican-ditioned

ASIN: B000G73UAY
Release Date: 2006-08-15

Tracks:

A Koko
Broasted Or Fried
Hymn To The People
Ci Ci
Pretty Lady
Round Trip
Midnight Lover
Soul Foo Young
Fairy Tales For Two
Lost Years
Dindi
A Little Tear

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In the '60s and '70s, drummer/percussionist Willie Bobo easily crossed over from bop to boogaloo to salsa, influencing musicians like Santana, who recorded a version of Bobo's "Evil Ways." After Bobo died in 1983 at the young age of 49, his son, Eric, discovered unreleased demo tapes that his father had recorded between 1970 and 1976. Lost and Found sees their release 30 years later. With production help from Eric's DJ friend, Mario Caldato Jr., these twelve tracks feature Bobo supported by keyboards, wah-wah guitar, bass, and horns. Longtime Bobo fans will dig these swinging versions of "Broasted or Fried," "Soul Foo Young," and "Ci Ci," with Bobo's zesty, beat-box vocal percussion. Bobo's love for Brazilian music is evident on his heartfelt renditions of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Dindi" and Eumir Deadato's "Little Tear," complete with Bobo's earthy rap/monologue. Bobo doesn't solo that much and personnel information on the band is not provided, but this music still highlights Bobo at his sizzling and syncopated best. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Customer Reviews:

Better late then never !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-02-12

This is vintage Willie Bobo, I am happy that Willie's son and wife finally colloborated to release this music sitting in a closet of the Bobo home. Willie was at his creative best and all I can say is what took so long? In a way, I guess its better because this way we have some fresh music by Guillermo Correa aka Willie Bobo over 20 years after his passing

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Honkin' on Bobo.......2006-09-21

This is a nice little album re-produced by Eric Bobo and Mario Caldato, JR. I would actually give it a 4 and 1/2. The music is some serious rump shakin' hard edged latin funk/soul. Some tunes lean to the jazzy side others lean to the latin rock side, no matter which way it leans it has this undlying groove based on Mr. Bobo's legendary percussionary skills. For fans of jazz, funk, and all things latin this album is smokin'!!!

Good stuff.......2006-08-22

I'm enjoying this CD since ordering it on here. Listened to it a few times now and I have to say the rythms and musicianship is simply amazing.

Recommended.

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Not goodbye, surely?
Ít's good enough

Goodbye
Bobo Stenson , Anders Jormin , and Paul Motian
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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ASIN: B0009VJZ1U
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

Send In The Clowns
Rowan
Alfonsina
There Comes A Time
Song About Earth
Seli
Goodbye
Music For A While
Allegretto Rubato
Jack Of Clubs
Sudan
Queer Street
Triple Play
Race Face

Customer Reviews:

Not goodbye, surely?.......2006-01-21

The irony is that this one will get compared to Tord Gustavsen's immensely popular _The Ground_, another ECM piano trio release from 2005, even though it's Stenson who was one of the key architects of the ECM aesthetic (he has only had own-name releases on the label in recent years, but he has been a sideman on many sessions for the label going back to the 1970s). And _Goodbye_ is by far the better disc, too: it may be quiet & limpidly beautiful, but is never feels confected, and the group interplay is vivid & full of surprise. A great pick of tunes, too: a Henry Purcell song, a Tony Williams Lifetime tune, Ornette's "Race Face", songs from Argentina & Russia, the old Benny Goodman/Jimmy Giuffre standby "Goodbye", and a non-schmaltzy "Send in the Clowns", not to mention some excellent Anders Jormin & Paul Motian compositions (just one by the leader himself, "Queer Street"). It was recorded in New York, well up to ECM's usual standards but with a fuller sound on the drums than I'd perhaps expected (compare with Motian's more recessed contributions to Rava's recent, rather dull _Tati_). Except for the Ornette Coleman tune, it's all mid-tempo to slow, often rubato, but it doesn't drag, & the important thing is that it never feels like more-of-the-same (as the Gustavsen disc does): every tune has its own mood & texture. Stenson really brings out the distinctive contours of each of these very different pieces, even as he & the other two musicians reshape them substantially.

Ít's good enough.......2005-09-13

The owner of the local cd-shop thought I would like this album. Why? Because it was my kind of thing. Whatever... I saw Bobo Stensson on the Northseajazzfestival in 2005. He played with Lars Danielsen the stuff from the Libera Me album. Bobo Stenson got a lot of notes/second out of his instrument, but none hit me. Nothing like the Libera Me album.

But the guy from the cd-shop gave me the Goodbye album anyway. And I saw that Jormin was playing on it. Jormin is playing on first edition of the scandinavian europe festival in Rotterdam (the new NSJF scene). I was planning to check him out anyway! I bought the album!

I listened! Bobo Stenson can play! The music is nothing like the NSJF episode. On Goodbye the music is between the notes. No showing of with speedy fingers. Sensitive and introvert piano playing like Tord Gustavsen but not (jet) on the same five starr levell.

Anders Jormin is a great bass player. His notes are delicate and to the point. Nothin' crazy...just enough. His playing makes Bobo Stenson sound better. Basswize the Tord Gustavsen Trio can not match up. I wonder why this album isn't on Jormins name. He wrote most of the peaces.

Paul Motion also wrote a peace. His drumming is good enough. But... I do not at all times like his playing and even more often the way it is recorded.

A very ECM-album!

FJB/O!-music 2006

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A Forgotten Icon of 60's Pop Culture
Hipped out trippy Bobo
Tasty!
Not bad but not good either!
Acid Lounge perhaps?

Talkin' Verve: Roots Of Acid Jazz
Willie Bobo
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ASIN: B0000047EZ
Release Date: 1997-06-24

Tracks:

Grazing In The Grass
Lisa
Black Coffee
The Look Of Love
Dreams
Evil Ways
Night Song
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Roots
Spanish Grease
Shot Gun/Blind Man, Blind Man
Stuff
Night Walk
Fried Neck Bones And Some Homefries
Sham Time

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Willie Bobo was cool--and hot. This music swings in a boogaloo/Latin soul/'60s sort of way. Swing by definition means not staying in one place. Some of Bobo's music slow, some is fast, some is sappy, and some is just plain greasy. "Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries," anyone? Open your ears as Bobo tackles Hugh Masekela's "Grazing in the Grass" and Bacharach's and David's "The Look of Love" (with the bandleader tackling vocals as well as percussion). "Evil Ways" and "Spanish Grease" are a couple of songs that any Santana fan will recognize, but Bobo stamps them with his daring and idiosyncratic charm. --Jonathan E.

Customer Reviews:

A Forgotten Icon of 60's Pop Culture.......2003-03-22

Hipped out trippy Bobo.......2000-09-29

The only thing wrong with this album is the hype. Acid jazz it aint. Psychedelic it aint. Tripped out hippy babes, I wish.

Trippy Bobo first cut is a genome for Sheryl Crow's soft top thingo about Melrose Place or whatever boogaloo on Santa Monica Boulevard.

"Evil Ways" hangs lower than the woman who hangs out with Jean and John and who knows who. Santana botched it for everyone but so did the seventies.

Willie had a line in latino versions of mainstream pop hits that proves Elvis Costello is derivative. Hear it with Bobo's does Bacharach with "Look of Love". No wonder Burt had his best years with Angie Dickinson (aka undercover police woman "Pepper Anderson") when Willie did his best work making covers and under the covers too.

On another Bobo classic hear him shame Tom Jones' sappy, arhythmic version of "It's Not Unusual".

Pop this CD in your 10 stacker in the boot of your 1995 Audi A6 and your whole Saturday is a goner.

Tasty!.......2000-05-03

While I'd heard of Willie Bobo, it wasn't until I read somewhere that Santana covered his "Evil Ways" (written by one of his band members) that I was sufficiently intrigued and plunked down fifteen for this great, fun, greasy set of latin-jazz r&b/soul lounge music. It's got the feel of a lava lamp, the smell of patchouli, the hip of Peter Sellers' "The Party" written all over it. It's just a notch above Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (and believe me, in Keswick, I've seen every sixties album Herbie put out at garage sales!) and a level below Pancho Sanchez. That said, it's immensely fun and disarmingly toe-tapping. I repainted a backyard deck while listening to this CD last summer and it made the experience ENJOYABLE! A forgotten slice of sixties pop. Here's where you catch up...

Not bad but not good either!.......1999-10-29

I've listened to Willie Bobo for years but was a little disappointed in this particular arrangmemt.

I'm still looking for "Fairy Tales for Two" can't seem to find it, but If any of you do.. You WON"T be disappointed...

Acid Lounge perhaps?.......1999-06-17

I have to admit I never heard of Willie Bobo until a couple of weeks ago when I rented the film VERY BAD THINGS. Just for the record, my screen name was not inspired by him. However if people choose to think I adopted his last name for my moniker that is ok by me. Wilie Bobo is now on my list of favorite Jazz artists. I love the loungy feel of Bobos music. It captured that feel of a laid back bar of the 60's. What sets him apart from other lounge artists of his day is his versatility. There seems to be a melding of funk, rock, jazz and the Latin sounds. Willie Bobo is like Getz/Gilberto meets Burt Bacharach.

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Without question, the best tubist of all time.
A must.

Roger Bobo: Tuba Libera

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tuba Carnival

ASIN: B000003J69
Release Date: 1995-10-24

Tracks:

The Liberation Of Sisyphus
Variations In Olden Style: 1. Theme: 2. Variation 1: 3. Variation 2: 4. Variation 3: 5. Variation 4: 6. Variation 5
The Limpid Stream: Adagio
Three Miniatures For Tuba & Piano: Allegro vivace
Three Miniatures For Tuba & Piano: Freely
Three Miniatures For Tuba & Piano: Allegro vivace
Capriccio For Solo Tuba
Sonata For Tuba And Piano: Andante sostenuto
Sonata For Tuba And Piano: Allegro energico
Sonata For Tuba And Piano: Allegro moderato
Romanien Dance No. 2
Carnival Of Venice

Customer Reviews:

Without question, the best tubist of all time........1999-06-25

I was fortunate to have been a Los Angeles Philharmonic subscriber while Bobo was principal tubist. He anchored what was then one of the finest low brass sections of any orchestra. Any doubt as to his virtuosity is dispelled by this recording. This should be in the collection of any aspiring tubist as an example of what can be accomplished in the hands of a master.

A must........1999-02-01

Bobo's rendition of Carnival of Venice left me with my jaw on the floor. I was amazed at the technicality he produces. Hearing my old high school trumpet playing teacher play it and then hearing Bobo was definitely a treat.

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One Long String
Red Mitchell , and Bobo Stenson
Manufacturer: Sunny Side Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000P46QBS
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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One Long String
Peggy
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Undertow
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When I Have You

Product Description

Red Mitchell had moved to Sweden in the sixties. It was there that, in 1969, Red Mitchell formed this trio: with a twenty-four year-old pianist just back from an African tour with Stan Getz, Bobo Stenson and you know what became of him later and the drummer Rune Carlsson, who'd played with musicians as different as Eric Dolphy and Bill Evans; the trio was indeed exceptional, but it was (very) short-lived, so much so that this album is the only trace of it.
Recorded during a visit to Paris, "One Long String" was the first album to do justice to the innovations that Red Mitchell brought to an instrument he was totally in love with... which is probably the truth, because they say he always asked for a room with two beds when he was touring, so that he could tuck his bass in on one of them... He tuned it like a cello, in fifths, and he'd come up with an astute amplification system that extended the sound of the notes, establishing a legato in the melody line that people hadn't heard before on a bass.

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5 stars for the good tracks on this record, but there are too many lousy tracks.
this is going to be a "gushy" review.
A different sort of soul music
Sublime piano trio music
Pure, Serene, austere

Serenity
Bobo Stenson Trio
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TJYK
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

T.
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Polska Of Despair (III)
Golden Rain
Swee Pea
Simple & Sweet
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El Mayor
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More Cymbals
Extra Low
Die Nachtigal
Rimbaud Gedicht
Polska Of Despair (II)
Serenity
Tonus

Amazon.com

Best known in North America for his work with Jan Garbarek and Charles Lloyd, pianist Bobo Stenson has a conception deeply rooted in the stream of lyrical pianists that includes Bill Evans, Paul Bley, and Keith Jarrett. Their varied trio philosophies, too, have certainly shaped the three-way inventions that Stenson develops with his long-standing partners, bassist Anders Jormin and drummer Jon Christensen. That established, though, no one is likely to mistake Stenson for anyone else. There's a genuinely Nordic quality to his music, from the open intervals of his native Sweden's folk songs (the kind taken up by visiting jazz musicians like Stan Getz and Art Farmer) to a particular sense of light that suffuses the trio's music.

There's an acuteness of listening here--to the overtones of piano, cymbals, and bass--that savors the barely articulated as well as the overt. The music has range--from Cuban Silvio Rodriguez's "El Mayor" to Alban Berg's "Die Nachtigall," from angular collective improvisations to Wayne Shorter's "Swee' Pea" and pieces by Charles Ives and Hanns Eisler--but it also has depth, the two CDs of Serenity emphasizing that very quality in Stenson's music. The reflective moods here touch on the somber and the unresolved, as well as the wistful and the joyous, the group folding them into a welling sonic beauty. It's piano trio music of the highest order. --Stuart Broomer

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5 stars for the good tracks on this record, but there are too many lousy tracks........2005-07-08

Let us introduce the concept "ECM Crapbook" now, a fictitious record for ECM, that should be compiled by jazz music lovers, and all the crappy music recorded by ECM should be put on it and forcefed to the guys at ECM, foremost of all to Manfred Eicher. Serenity is a strange mixture of really good music ( e.g. "Golden Rain") and crap (e.g. "Serenity"). Plus this is a double CD, all the good music could fill one CD.

this is going to be a "gushy" review........2004-03-23

_Serenity_ is a masterpiece of jazz composition and performance that rethinks the piano trio. If you think it's impossible for an album to be deeply jazzy, angular, complex, beautiful, atonal, quirky, liquidy, serialist, and expressive all at the same time, this album will be a marvel to you. I don't think I've heard chromatic jazz sound so ear-pleasing and lyrical. Pianist Bobo Stenson's Trio, completed with Anders Jormin (bass) and Jon Christensen (drums), places every note with flawless execution. "rash67" gives a revealing description of the music when he writes: "Mr Stenson's Trio from Sweden ... seems to be playing abstract jazz music somehow reflective of Frozen Impressionism. I can only describe this music through impressions. I see lonely, dark, frozen fjords and evergreen forests and brooding clouds and fogs. Pure, serene and austere." The Scandinavian folk elements reinforce this sound. They tackle the work of composers such as Alban Berg and Charles Ives and bring a unique presence to the music without any sense of violation. The music is haunting and beautiful, the kind you get timelessly lost in because of its depth and alluring complexities. A minor fault in the otherwise flawless production is that the album seems a bit too quiet sometimes. That's troublesome. I can't really describe it anymore, as I'm too mentally exhausted. But listen to the samples and if you think there's the slightest chance you will enjoy it, do yourself a favor and pick it up. Highest recommendation!

A different sort of soul music.......2003-12-16

How did you come to be checking out Bobo Stenson? Assuming that you didn't stumble onto this page while looking for Bobo the clown, the fact that you're here means that you're one of those out-of-the-ordinary musical explorers rather than one of the mainstream many who stick to the safe highways of easy-on-the-ear music. And I bet you're one of those inquisitive types who actually reads the liner notes and takes note of who plays what on which tracks.

So you're probably the sort of person who has the discrimination to recognize outstanding musicians, and the patience to listen to what they're doing. "Serenity" will reward you richly.

I first came across the great Bobo on Charles Lloyd's excellent "Fish out of water", bought on the strength of a Q-magazine recommendation years ago. And maybe 10 years after first buying it I was listening again and was intrigued by the piano playing. By this time Amazon.com was doing its stuff and I was able to check whether there were any Bobo Stenson recordings. Hey presto, "Serenity". One click and it was done.

On several tracks I found the sound that had first intrigued me - the opening "T", "El Mayor" and "Golden Rain" for example. But a number of others were too abstract for my liking and the CD languished at the bottom of the pile for a couple of years, until I once again felt a yen for that sound.

Since then I've played this double CD through endlessly, including all the more abstract pieces. The beauty of the music and the playing has gradually revealed itself. Initially it tends to remind people of Keith Jarrett, probably because he's become the standard reference for ECM-type piano. But the sensibility is different. Certainly Stenson has an easily accessible sweetly lyrical vein, but the reward is in finding out just how different he is.

Thank you Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin and Jon Christensen for opening my ears just that little wider. When's the next CD?

Sublime piano trio music.......2001-08-03

I wish the reviewers below would base their reviews strictly on the music and give this double album its well-deserved number of stars. The music is highly intergrated and melodic, the playing of a very high caliber (even for Bobo) and you can feel and hear these musicians caressing the themes they play and listening to each others next move. The sound is beautiful, the bass rich and full. I have purchased this album 6 months ago and it makes its way to my CD player regularly. If you like piano trios that push the envelop yet remain accessible and melodic, then you should give this one a try.

Pure, Serene, austere.......2001-02-16

Although I normally prefer jazz with more melody, I find this CD quite compelling. As is stated elsewhere, the music is abstract.

I always felt the classical composer Sibelius produced Impressionist music. Frozen Impressionism. Mr Stenson's Trio from Sweden also seems to be playing abstract jazz music somehow reflective of Frozen Impressionism. I can only describe this music through impressions. I see lonely, dark, frozen fjords and evergreen forests and brooding clouds and fogs. Pure, serene and austere.

But they play amazingly well together, like Bill Evans, Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, they read each other's minds and the bass and drums are an integral part of the sound.

Some of it is noisy, but most of it is peaceful, well structured, cerebral and almost borders on the classical, and for me, that's good.

Solitary, late night listening!

Tracks:

Sonata No.5 In D Minor: Adagio
Sonata No.5 In D Minor: Allegro e Spiritoso
Sonata No.5 In D Minor: Alla Sicilliano
Sonata No.5 In D Minor: Allegro Assai
Introduction And Dance
Sonata For Basstuba And Piano: Allegro Pesante
Sonata For Basstuba And Piano: Allegro Assai
Sonata For Basstuba And Piano: Variationen
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Takes A Dancing Lesson
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Falls In Love
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Goes Folk Dancing
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Chases A Monkey
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Sings A Lullaby
Children's Suite: Effie The Elephant: Effie Joins a Carnival
Encounters II For Unaccompained Tuba
Two Songs: Andante
Two Songs: Allegro
Cadence VI For Tuba And Tape
Tuba Encore Piece

Customer Reviews:

amazing.......1999-05-29

It's Roger Bobo, what more can be said. This is one of the finest albums of tuba music recorded by one the world's greatest tuba players. You're doing a disservice to yourself by not owning this.

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