Imagine

Pam Parker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 4, 2004)
• Original Release Date: December 4, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Pam Parker
• ASIN: B0006VLLYM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #680,601 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

2. Mother's Day

3. Bridge Over Troubled Water

4. We Speak Louder Than Machines

5. Truck Driving Woman

6. Hound Dog

7. Congo Square

8. Sophie's Theme

9. What a Wonderful World

10. Bound for Freedom

11. Masters of War

12. Imagine

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Pam(ela) Parker (vocals) has performed and recorded jazz, R & B, folk, and popular music for several years. The recently released Imagine is her 2nd CD. She is influenced by great vocalists and songwriters such as Nina Simone, Big Mama Thornton and James Taylor. Her voice is strong, smooth, and pretty...one of those that grabs you at the first note and doesn’t let go until it wants to.

Scott Giambusso (bass) has been playing music since 1968. Scott plays both acoustic and elctric bass. He is currently on the jazz faculty of Montgomery College, but has played with greats such as Chuck Berry.

Steve Jones (piano) is a playwright, author, and professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park.

Richard Miller (guitar) was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has performed both classical guitar music and popular Brazilian and Latin-American music. He has played all over the world for the past 10 years and is currently writing his dissertation for a Ph.D. in music theory at the Catholic University of America.

Jobari Parker-Namdar (vocals) is a recent graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Jobari has studied at Tanglewood and is currently majoring in Jazz and Classical Vocal Performance at the University of Michigan under the direction of George Shirley.

Herbert Scott (saxophone) is a recent graduate of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. He is often featured at the Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage and is currently an Instrumental Jazz major at Michigan State.

Francis Thompson (drums) is a theory and percussion instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. A sought after drummer he is proficient in everything from chamber and classical music to bebop, jazz, and R & B.

*FMI: call Pam Parker @ 301 523-4892 or email [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IMAGINE'S 'Masters of War' scores big., November 22, 2005

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A. Skane (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Imagine (Audio CD)

If one song can make a CD (and many have before), then 'Masters of War' should do it for IMAGINE. Not that the rest of this CD isn't great (I have not yet heard it), but I just heard Parker, Parker-Namdar et al. perform Masters of War (music and lyrics by Bob Dylan) from their CD on the recently released DVD 'Poison Dust'. 'Dust' documents our country's scandalous use of Depleted Uranium in battlefield weapons since 1990, its destructive affects (permanent nuclear poisoning of participants and the environment, and hideous birth defects in future offspring), and our government's efforts to avoid disclosure, responsibility, and cessation of what's happening. The song, Masters of War, so beautifully arranged and performed by Parker and company, is a call to arms, in Dylan's understated but powerful way (as appropriate today as when he wrote it), for all Americans to standup, speak out, and stop the madness. I'm ordering IMAGINE right now and recommending it to my friends.