Love Remains [Import]

Bobby Watson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 21, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Red Records
• ASIN: B000000G4O
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finest of His Pre-Horizon, Red Label Recordings, June 15, 2001

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Remains (Audio CD)

Bobby Watson came up through Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he was music director for several years. After that, he recorded a series of records with the Italian Red label. Though all are worthy of owning, this is the best. The title cut, a slow ballad, is Watson's finest effort on record. Its haunting, plaintive melody is perfectly suited to Watson's breathy delivery; the result is one of the more poignant recordings in the history of jazz. Interestingly, Watson's latest release, Quiet As It's Kept, is a return to the sensibility found on this disc and to the Red label. The band is one of his best with John Hicks on piano, Curtis Lundy on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums. A companion session led by John Hicks called Naima's Love Song featuring the same personnel and put out under the DIW is also very much worth getting.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Good As It Gets, December 28, 2001

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Mark Bennett (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Remains (Audio CD)

This disc is unquestionably Bobby Watson's finest, which is all you really need to know. BW's complete mastery of the bop and hard bop idioms is conclusively demonstrated throughout this set; but what is really breathtaking is the passion and soul he puts into every note. The man smokes! And the rhythym section of John Hicks, Curtis Lundy, and Victor Lewis is simply superb. Buy this CD now. I mean right now.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential 80s recording, March 19, 1999

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[e-mail] (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Remains (Audio CD)

Bobby Watson gets more out of his alto on this one recording than most players manage to squeeze out of a carreer. Every solo is a mini lession in the past, present, and future of improvized music. It smokes. It swings. It makes mounds and mounds of julienne fries. What can I say. Even after obsessive repeated listenings, my Love Remains.