Black Hope

Kenny Garrett | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 1992)
• Original Release Date: September 8, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MF8
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,230 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 you have to look beneath the groove, September 26, 2004

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Greg Johnson "brightsax88" (State College, PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Hope (Audio CD)

The reviewer that wrote "every other track is supermarket noise" did not look very deep into this brilliant recording. Every single note of every single track is deeply thought out, and proves that Garrett can play any style just as well or better than any other sax player.

He shows his incredible viruosity on the first track, tacit dance. He displays his sensitivity on the second track, Spanish-Go-Round. It only gets better from there. This is hard-bop at its greatest. Only ignorance could mistake this man's music for "elavator noise." Listening to this recording 100 times, one can hear something new each time. The incredible thing is the amount of interaction and intellectual content that these men put into each track. Though these pieces may be "groovy", Garrett plays them as though he is playing "Giant Steps" and "Niama." This is truly one of his best recordings.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the most underrated Kenny Garrett album, February 10, 1999

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Ryan McCormack (Morgantown, WV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Hope (Audio CD)

Kenny Garrett has been thrust to the top of the jazz world through his recent successes, including SONGBOOK and PURSUANCE:THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE. Many critics overlook this album as one of his great successes. BLACK HOPE was my first exposure to Kenny, and he has been a great influence on my playing ever since. Kenny burns up the track with legend Joe Henderson on COMPUTER G(check out the trading four section on this one)and BYE BYE BLACKBIRD. I also love his original TACIT DANCE and he rolls off an unbelievable solo on JACKIE AND THE BEANSTALK. A must have album for any Kenny fan.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Certainly worth listening too!!, July 3, 2001

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Jacob Byrd (Rockwall, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Hope (Audio CD)

Kenny Garrett is a young sax player that is changing the way the sax is played. Nobody played like him before. He puts his own style in everything. His playing outside has undeveloped jazz ears confussed but for the true jazzman his solos are stunning. He is quite diffrent in that he varies from typical jazz. His title song is a party beat, while his final song Last Sax (named so because he was the last sax to play with Miles Davis) is a bluesy "Davis" feel. This is certainly worth listening to!!