Blue Moses [Import]

Randy Weston | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: King Japan
• ASIN: B000I0S9D2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,835 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Ifrane

2. Ganawa (Blue Moses)

3. Night in Medina

4. Marrakesh Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All-Star Line-Up, Incredible Ambiance, July 12, 2008

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Paul Mark Provencher "ppro" (Morgantown, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Moses (Audio CD)

I bought this LP for a very superficial reason: The album art by Pete Turner was too good to pass up! This LP jacket must be seen to be believed! I wonder if anyone has the photo print that Pete Turner offered via mail?

Notwithstanding my ignorant reason for purchase, the album became a personal treasure with my first listen. It's hard to pass up Hubert Laws, Grover Washington, Ron Carter, and Airto Moreira, for starters. The rest of the line up is just as incredible.

The music (that's the point right?) is accessible jazz that in my opinion doesn't dive too deep toward the "smooth jazz" blight that became prevalent much later. It's complex and at times eclectic, but rewards the listener after a few "training runs" with some wonderful emotions that call you back again and again.

I can really get the sense of walking at night in Medina; the rhythyms of the drums really do evoke Morroco in a way that Plant & Page also manage a few decades later with their unplugged foray into World Music. But I digress...

This is the kind of album that sets a nice mood for that evening when you want to sit back and let the day run off your shoulders. Or that long drive at night...

It's what it is - Weston may be more familiar and "pure" with an acoustic piano, but I still think there is a place for this album in the real jazz lover's collection.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Complicated, January 13, 2011

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W. Welburn (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Moses (Audio CD)

Blue Moses is a complicated recording. Enormously popular when it was first released in the 1970s, Blue Moses brought composer and pianist Randy Weston to the attention of a lot of music listeners who were not familiar with his catalog of excellent recordings. Also, as with others on CTI, the stable of artists (Ron Carter, Grover Washington, Hubert Laws, Freddie Hubbard, et al) is remarkable. There's no question that these are excellent compositions brilliantly performed by Weston and company. But the usual CTI arrangement is (by 2010 standards) hard to take. Granted, it was Weston's first recording in 6 years, and like the best from CTI (Sunflower, Red Clay) there's something appealing about it. But listeners should find two subsequent Weston releases, Tanja and Carnival, then imagine what Blue Moses might have been.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great album, November 25, 2003

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This review is from: Blue Moses (Audio CD)

Some good time blowin by Freddie Hubbard with a swinging Billy Cobham. Grover gets in some nice licks and the charts are very exciting.