Bar Talk

Jeff "Tain" Watts | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 6, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00006DTZJ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,187 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding., August 16, 2002

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This review is from: Bar Talk (Audio CD)

Wow, this is just great stuff. Tain smokes on this CD, along with a gang of unbelievable players like Branford, Mike Brecker, Joey Calderazzo, Ravi Coltrane, and more. The songs are just burning, with mind-bending solos from all of the folks mentioned above. The tune with Branford and Brecker on the same track is just flat-out scary. These guys are monsters. Any sax player who hears it will want to put his own horn away forever. Way to go, Tain!!! Terrific job!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz CD of the Year, June 21, 2003

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Mark Diamond (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bar Talk (Audio CD)

Quite simply this was the best jazz CD of last year and one of the best of ANY year. It is tuneful, varied, brilliantly played and pretty hip in terms of its stylistic approach. I've had it for almost a year and I still play it to death. When you consider some of the unlistenable [stuff] that gets foisted on the long sufferring jazz public by the critics (is it any wonder that jazz sales are in decline?) this CD came as a breath if not a rush of fresh air. One can only hope that Sony keep Tain on the books and keep allowing him to put out CD's like this one. Miss it at your peril.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kiss me deadly, January 9, 2008

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Todd R. Brown (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bar Talk (Audio CD)

I'm listening to the song "Kiss" from this album right now via KCSM radio in the Bay Area, piped into my apartment via digital cable on the boob tube. That's something I wouldn't have written when the disc came out five or six years ago, but the excellent music here, particularly Joey Calderazzo's dancing piano, stands the test of time.

Watts, of course, glides along on drums as effortlessly but commandingly as any drummer of the day. The sax tones of Ravi and Brecker soar to inspiring heights.

It all comes together so fluidly, it reminds me of so much unheralded jazz I heard a few years ago and wondered, why do these guys bother playing such music from the heart for no financial reward? The titans still roam the music world, but they don't get paid nothing near what they deserve.

And yet, I guess the thrill of writing and playing is too irresistable a siren call to ignore, so they go smashing their elegant sounds against the godless reef of the record/download/whatever industry. Siva bless you, thanks for the tickling of soul and ears with your gorgeous sonic splendor.