Back Door [Import]

Back Door | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Bros UK
• ASIN: B00004ZBZO
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,922 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Serendipity, November 24, 2000

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T. D., Morse - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Back Door (Audio CD)

A chance buy, but worth it. The playing is phenominal, whether playing quickly or slowly. Whether saxes or flute. I've never really warmed to the sound of the higher saxes, finding them too brash or tinny, but Ron Aspery converted me. His playing is precise and immotive, (where are you now). The rythmn section is tight, and intricate. Colin Hodgkinson's bass is a marvel. if you want to know what's possible to do on the bass listen to this record. If I hadn't seen the man do it, I woudn't believe there are two people playing bass. A brilliant record from a little known jazz trio. Modern jazz, but not Free jazz. Each track is quite short, but to be honest there is a great passion in breveity, which overstatment can hide.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars still great after more than 30 years, February 9, 2008

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chris the drummer (sf bay area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back Door (Audio CD)

I first heard this album (yes, I still have the original vinyl too) not long after it came out. I was in college at Miami of Ohio playing drums in a band that touched on some of Back Door's approaches...as well as those of Coltrane, Zappa, Corea, and others. Jive Grind remains my favorite cut, followed closely by Human Bed.

I know from direct experience that a trio is one of the hardest musical formats. There is no place to hide. There is little forgiveness if you are not 100% all of the time. While all three musicians are superb, Colin Hodgkinson did things on the electric bass guitar in 1972 that most players of today are still incapable of. Only Jack Bruce and Jack Casady come to mind as contemporaries and peers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique and Classic, April 5, 2006

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Mean Machine "Mean Machine" (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back Door (Audio CD)

There was never anyone else like Back Door - an amazing 3 piece combo of base, horns and drums where bass and horns exchange lead roles and the bass sounds like lead, base and rhythm guitars! The bassist is Colin Hodgkinson - once called the Hendrix of the Base - a label that does not in any way over state his prowess with his chosen instrument.

Buy this album and you will never regret it.