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Best of Richard Elliot

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Jazz Critics (and music critics in general) like to dismiss Elliot as indistinguishable from Boney James and Paul Taylor but Elliot was creating fat, foot-stomping sounds on his sax long before the current crop of contemporary "jazz" horn blowers. It is not that Elliot creates lines that other saxophone players CAN'T play, but rather, he makes big muscular melodies (mostly on tenor) that other saxophonists, usually, DON'T play. He is the saxophone equivalent of a guitar hero, wielding those big, soaring tones. This CD is a good overview of most of his efforts. Though Over The Rainbow (why not include Movers and Shakers instead?) as well as the three closing tracks are weak, there is a lot of great material here. Highlights (at least for this listener) include: Street Beat, When a Man Loves a Woman, Take Your Time, Candlelight, and The Power of Suggestion.

I am a huge Richard Elliot fan, owning 12 of his cd's, but if you are looking to purchase a cd by him I would not recommend this one. It has good music on it but his other titles: Chill Factor, On the Town, Crush, and his newest Ricochet are much more enjoyable and you would be better off owning one of those titles.

Exactly the class act I'd expect from Richard Elliot. He's been making great sounds for a long time and this cd points that out.

VERY SMOOTH COOL JAZZ. BACK TOO BACK HITS.YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TOO GET UP TOO CHANGE IT.IT WILL GET YOU MOVIN` THEN CHILL YOU OUT.VERY WELL DONE.TK

This is a really good CD. Richard Elliot is one of my all-time favorite sax players.

Richard Elliot provides good, soft listening jazz. Anyone who likes soft jazz will enjoy listening to Richard. Would recommend to a friend.

Richard Elliot is one of the great contemporary sex men. This is a great compilation of his work.

The album ahs a grat veriaty of the greatest hits of Richard Elliot.

Richard Elliot is a great musician with a distinguishable record of great albums, but to call this THE BEST, Well...not exactly. There is such a long list of much better tracks that would really make it worth calling it Richard's best. C'mon, Richard, you know you can do better than this!!!

i would like a sample of this song please. the song has a great beat to it and richard elliot is a great jazz artist.