Customer Reviews

Music of Eric Von Essen 1

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The first track alone is worth the price. Perfect for a summer evening, sitting on your deck with a glass of wine... A great CD.

Eric's work masterfully engages the depths of the soul. It's damned fine jazz that's perfomed by artists who know how to engage in this art's improvisations and how to bring it all home to a wondrous thematic resolve. If mastery is defined as the ability to sense and tap the subtle nature of the profound -- this work does it. And multi-star ratings don't begin to reflect the profund universal gift this body of music clearly reflects and represents.

I'm eagerly awaiting Volume 2!

Eric, as is the case with fine artists, went far beyond the pale to return with the message of creative elixirs that benefit us all. He is missed -- but his gift remains!

Do yourself a favor! Get it! Enjoy it! Go with it!

This is a gorgeous CD with stellar performances by some of LA's best musicians...Alan Broadbent, Alan Pasqua, Nels Cline, Peter Erskine and many others. Von Essen was a marvelous composer, and he must truly have been loved and appreciated by his colleagues for them to make a CD like this.

Normally I would not buy a CD performed by "various artists" but this is an extraordinary collection of amazing compositions by a bassist who was extremely talented.
First heard this on NPR ( jazz in prime time)and was intrigued.
The first cut sets the tone and even though the ensemble varies, the quality is consistently amazing.
Some great bass work, mellow flugelhorn, and outstanding keyboard work.
Do yourself a favor and indulge yourself. Very mellow, very listenable but provocative music.
If this is LA jazz we need more.

His passion and intensity is visible in this stellar collection.
He is truly missed.