Grassy Knoll

Grassy Knoll | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B0000046ZT
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,091 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Culture Of Complaint

2. March Eighteenth

3. Unbelievable Truth

4. Altering The Gates Of The Mind

5. Conversations With Julian Dexter

6. Floating Above The Earth

7. Less Than One

8. Low

9. Evolution #9

10. The Beauty Within

11. Illusions Of Peace

12. Spirit Slips Away

13. Left Becomes Right

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars what was the name of the girl in the bar, June 3, 2004

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thomas a sicurella (san francisco, california United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grassy Knoll (Audio CD)

hi bob, 10 years later and this still feels current

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, June 12, 2010

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grassy Knoll (Audio CD)

Grassy Knoll is one of those albums that sounds great on paper. Get really good jazz musicians, use eletronic percussion and a digital shine, and see what happens.


Adding a creepy name does not hurt: , the grassy knoll was a outside patch in Dallas, from where, some say, a shot that killed President Kennedy was fired in 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was in an upstairs book depository, so if a shot was fired from the grassy knoll, it would prove there was more than one killer.

Grassy Knoll, the band: well, these are obviously great jazz players, although reading the cover, I don't know who these guys are or where they are from. But they mix together with a DJ here and do acid jazz grooves, taking short, restrained solos in the middle.

Ok. But the problem is that there is SO much emphasis placed on simple grooves: there is merit to this--simplifying the structures allows players to take off. It is the reason Miles and Coltrane did so well using modes in the 1960s.

None of Grassy Knolls soloists ever take flight. There is no singer or dominating instrument to put a mark on this music. The grooves are deep and well dug, but seem empty,

I can name other music where the concept works. Miles' On The Cornor uses long, repeating grooves to amazing effect. But there, you have hypnotic loops, three, four, five guys sounding off at once. Grassy Knoll keeps the solos short and isolated. No one really takes off, and while the patterns on here are interesting, there is no center.

This is not bad, but with more planning, and playing, could have been a hell of a lot better.