Taking the Long Way Home

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Includes 'Song for the Souls that Go Before' from 'The Hearts Left Behind'.

Tracks:

Taking The Long Way Home
Ready To Love
Thank You
Take This Feeling
Song For The Souls
Lifeline
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Path To Peace
Early Morning Music Box
This Light This Life

Album Details

Includes 'Song for the Souls that Go Before' from 'The Hearts Left Behind'.

Customer Reviews:

Straight from the heart.......2002-03-23

Every song is a perfect gem with the heavenly mix of her vocals and his guitar. This disk seems to transcend jazz and enter into the arena of pure music. Anyone who wants to hear something real will love it.

Spiritual messages more uplifting than many in books.......2001-09-07

Everybody else is reviewing this as a terrific jazz CD, which it is, but I'm going to review it for the spiritual content of Patti's lyrics. You will find more inspirational messages in this CD than you'll find in most inspirational and motivational books.

The first two songs, "Taking the Long Way Home" and "Ready to Love" are admittedly love songs, but compared with most of today's love songs, they speak of a real type of love without the pain and confusion of most that you'll find in rock, pop, and country.

"Thank You" is a joyful and happy song, exemplifying the principle of recognizing and showing gratitude for all the good one receives.

"Take This Feeling" expresses the joy of living in the moment without regret for the past or concern for the future.

"Song for the Souls That Go Before (From the Hearts Left Behind)" is one of the strongest messages of it's kind that I have come across, comparable only to the James Dillet Freeman book, LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH. It's especially meaningful to me two years after having lost my mother and having recently discovered that my son's mother has an inoperable cancer. Thanks so much to Patti, for this message.

"Lifeline" has to come from Patti's heart. She's a soul that has to sing, and this song tells us all of the person she is which is important to know.

"You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" is possibly the most deep reaching of all these lyrics. If I were a minister, I would require all couples to listen to this song before marriage.

"Path To Peace" comes across as if Patti were speaking directly to the listener, with such meaningful words.

If one has been listening to, and following the lyrics, one is ready for a break, a time to think and reflect, and so Tuck's instrumental, "Early Morning Music Box", is perfectly timed.

And so we come to "This Light This Life", Patti's concluding spiritual statement worded in such a way that she could be talking personally with the listener.

So however one listens to this CD, as a jazz recording or as a series of spiritual messages from one heart to another, this is indeed a five star recording.

Taking the long way home.......2000-12-18

Listening to Tuck use his third arm and Patti reaching from within her soul, you want to take the long road so you can listen over and over. The best of my spirit is enrich more.

Great company on a lonely night.......2000-12-04

I defer to all the other T&P fans who say this isn't their best. If that's the case, I want to hear the best. This is the most beautiful jazz CD I've listened to in years. The songs are carefully selected - try to find one that doesn't mean something to you - and Patti's glorious voice, Tuck's guitar... in the deepest, truest part of me, I wish I could cuddle up somewhere warm, sip a glass of wine, shut my eyes, and listen to this magic forever.

SAve your money and buy the classics.......2000-10-17

I waited anxiously for this CD to be released. I can say with certainty that there are only two tracks that are worth your time. The others are drown out versions of older not so great T&P hits. Save your money and get the greatest hits!

Average customer rating:

Five Stars For Bud

Taking the Long Way Home
Bud Shank Big Band
Manufacturer: Jazzed Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FOPPVA
Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

Rosebud
Waltz For Debby
Greasiness Is Happening
Night & Day
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
The Starduster
Limes Away
Taking The Long Way Home

Product Description

Alto sax legend Bud Shanks first big band release features exciting arrangements from Bob Cooper, Manny Albam, Mike Barone, and Bob Florence. This is the first Bud Shank Big Band album in Buds 60+ year career. Bud is joined by many jazz greats including Carl Saunders, Roger Ingram, Ron Stout, Andy Martin, Lanny Morgan, Jack Nimitz, Christian Jacob, and special guest Bob Florence.

This new disc at hand features Buds dynamic big bandthe very first big band recording he has been positioned in as leader. I really had fun with it. At my age now, to have that materialize for the first time is a genuine thrill, reveals Bud. I think most musicians dream of having a big band. Despite growing up in the big swing band era, it just never happened to me. After playing with the Barnet and Kenton bands, I went straight to the Lighthouse All-Stars and from then on it was small groups. Furthermore, as Im a composer and not an arranger-writer, I never had the desire to have my own band for the purpose of hearing my writing.

The element of swing has long been key in Buds embodiment of musical values. In regard to the tunes, its not surprising he articulated firmly: I definitely wanted swingin things as much as possible. The charts were primed for swingfeel, indeed. In front of the band, Bud communicated a disposition of kinetic excitement. He was pumped up eager to swing!

The band was shored with some of L.A.s best corps of players. It was outrageous in its profusion of excellence from the steaming rhythm section of Christian Jacob, Joel Hamilton and Kevin Kanner to the blazing horns. Throughout the high caliber performance, the heartfelt emotion and joie de vivre of the event was a perceptible ingredient. As Lanny Morgan has predicted: I think Bud Shank fans will be thrilled. Its a tremendous effort!

Dr. Herb Wong
Past-President, IAJE
Alumnus, KJAZ Radio, San Francisco
Customer Reviews:

Five Stars For Bud .......2006-06-17
Alto saxophonist/flautist Bud Shank is one of the top musicians in jazz, and has continued to develop a personal sound throughout his six decade career. One does not usually associate Shank with big bands, but he was a key member of Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra in the `50's and Kenton's L.A. Neophonic Orchestra in the `60's. So it was logical for Bud to lead a specially assembled big band at the L.A. Jazz's Institute's 40th Anniversary celebration of the Neophonic Orchestra in 2005. And it was equally logical for Graham Carter of Jazzed Media to record this concert, as he has at several other Ken Poston produced events.

The recorded results of this collaboration are heard on "Taking the Long Way Home", and they are superb. The band plays the challenging charts remarkably well considering the limited rehearsal time. The charts are generally of the bright and swinging variety, though we also get a medium slow blues -"Greasiness is Happening" - by Bob Cooper and a beautiful ballad by Mike Barone - "Starduster"- a tribute to Artie Shaw, which proves to be one of the memorable highlights of the CD. Barone also contributed the strong opener "Rosebud", plus the uptempo swinger "Lines Away". Bob Cooper arranged Shank's favored "Waltz for Debby"; Manny Albam the swinging "Night and Day"; and Shank the inventive "Night Has a Thousand Eyes." Tenor saxophonist Doug Webb shares solo space with Shank on the latter chart and Carl Saunders has solo space on "Limes Away."

But the main soloist is Shank who plays alto throughout and is in superlative form. He plays with incredible depth and swing on every track, and often with the vigor of a man much younger (Bud was 78 or 79 at the time of this recording). In fact, he often sounds like a man rediscovering his youth, such is the joy of his improvisations and his spoken parts. Bud also weaves his way impressively through the typically challenging and multi-faceted title piece by Bob Florence (who plays piano and conducts on this track). This 18 minute chart was commissioned by Bud's wife Linda in honor of Bud's 75th birthday. It is a major concert work which can be played only by the best musicians and handled by a major soloist like Shank. Indeed, it reminds one of the music which was written for the original Neophonic Orchestra. The applause which marks the end of this chart (and the concert) seems to include an equal amount of awe and joyous appreciation. With his performance on this CD, Bud Shank reaffirms his ranking with Phil Woods as one of the top two altoists in jazz today.

This well-recorded and highly recommended 68 minute CD invites and rewards repeated hearings. It is a great triumph for Bud Shank and another winner in the Jazzed Media catalogue. "Taking the Long Way Home" is the best CD I have heard so far in 2006.
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