Center Piece: Live at the Blue Note [Live]

Al Grey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 24, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B000003D54
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #138,326 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 The Centerpiece, September 26, 2003

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chris boeyink (Elmhurst, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Center Piece: Live at the Blue Note (Audio CD)

This is cd is one of my favorites. Period. It's hard swinging music that doesn't get old. There is so much feeling behind every note that these guys play, it makes other cd's seem less relevent. Everything just makes sense.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Tradition, January 1, 2007

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Center Piece: Live at the Blue Note (Audio CD)

This music is swinging and spirited, with plenty of fine solos, but Grey was simply a bit past his peak, not to mention good old Harry "Sweets" Edison...

It's a pleasure, however, to listen the musicians play their tributes to their Basie and Gillespie orchestra origins, with reliable and strong sax and flute of Jerome Richardson and rock-solid rhythm section. The music is quite diverse (blues and ballads; elements of bop and swing + bossanovish "Nascimento") but, when listened in context of Edison's "Live at the Iridium" album, one sees not only the pattern but repetition of songs ("I Wish I Knew" and Edison's classic "Centerpiece"...).

I like this album very much, but it's far from being essential.