A Hot Night In Paris [Live]

The Phil Collins Big Band, Phil Collins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 2010)
• Original Release Date: July 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Atlantic / Wea
• ASIN: B00000JLMP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,765 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Applause for Phil in the Jazz world, November 1, 1999

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This review is from: A Hot Night In Paris (Audio CD)

On this cd, Phil Collins goes back to his roots as a jazz drummer. While a few Phil fans may be disappointed that there are no vocals, or that the standards don't sound quite like the originals, I doubt that was Phil's point, to put out another cd of hits. Here he branches out, playing tunes by Miles Davis and Phil's saxophonist Gerald Albright. This is definitely a cd to be enjoyed for the pure talent of the musicians. As a jazz musician and composer myself, I think the arrangements were downplayed a little, so the non-jazz familiar audience would enjoy them more, but the excitement and talent of the players more than makes up for it. The solo horns on the Phil standards to me sound as expressive as any voice could be--who needs words for everything when horns can say the same thing? But a very well done cd, excellent musicians, and Phil gets to show off in the genre he started out in. Not every drummer can bridge the gap between pop and jazz, especially big band jazz, so easily. Three cheers for Phil and his most excellent big band, which can be enjoyed equally by jazz and pop fans alike.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phil's Hot Big Band, January 14, 2004

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Alan Caylow (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Hot Night In Paris (Audio CD)

...As a longtime Phil Collins fan for well over two decades now, I've gotten used to the constant idiotic bad reviews of Phil's singing & songwriting abilities that have plagued him since 1985's "No Jacket Required" album, which are stupid enough. But to put down Phil's talent as a *drummer* is absolute bull---t! Phil Collins is without a doubt one of the greatest drummers in the world. NO ONE on God's given Earth plays drums like Phil Collins. He is a master, a pro, and he has a unique drumming sound that's entirely his own. He KNOWS his way around that drumkit. If you can't hear the brilliance of Phil's drumming on "A Hot Night In Paris," or on ANY album that Phil has drummed on throughout his career for that matter, then you are obviously, 100%, frigging DEAF! Now that I've gotten that off my chest....Phil Collins has always had great affection for jazz music, and, in 1999, he did a brief tour with his own jazz band, playing certain jazz classics, as well as jazz arrangements of some of his solo & Genesis material. No singing, just some major kick-butt jazz playing. His big band's stop in Paris is well-documented on "A Hot Night In Paris," as Phil & company put excellent jazz rave-up spins on Phil favorites like "Sussudio," "I Don't Care Anymore," Genesis hits "That's All," "Invisible Touch," and their 1976 prog-rock warhorse, "Los Endos," and a phenomenal, mindblowing, 12-minute blast through the old Average White Band classic, "Pick Up The Pieces." Phil & his big band are simply sensational on this recording---I wish I could've been at the concert myself! If you're a diehard Phil Collins fan, then "A Hot Night In Paris" is a definite must-have. Rock on, Phil!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now I know who Collins' tom-heavy style reminded me of..., January 17, 2001

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R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Hot Night In Paris (Audio CD)

...Gene Krupa. Other reviewers have touched on the specific numbers collectively better than I could, so I'll just deal with Phil The Drummer here. I know friends who have always dissed the way Collins has used all four of his toms in a way that walks all over the backbeat as defined by his snare. I used to say; "Well, that's 'cause he's more of a jazz man than a rock drummer", but I went no further than that. Rock has always been backbeat-centered, so a drummer like Collins is always going to leave the rock listener a bit cold. But it wasn't until I bought this disc that I realized that the slam-boom beat of "I Don't Care Anymore" has always been more derivative of Gene Krupa (specifically "Sing, Sing, Sing") than any rock drummer. Not even the use of horns in songs like "It Don't Matter To Me" and Genesis' "Paperlate" tipped me off to the fact that this man should have done a big band album years ago. I'm not saying that he should abandon pop entirely, but the switch of Brian Setzer to swing, the fact that Lyle Lovett's Large Band has a solid following, and the fact that Chuck Mangione's brother Gap has converted from small ensemble to big band--all of this at least suggests that (at least at the moment) there's an appetite for the sound.