Off Centre [Import]

John Cameron | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Dutton Vocalion UK
• ASIN: B0009I9XKQ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,865 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Off Centre

2. Go Away, Come Back Another Day

3. Dafina Querida

4. Omah Cheyenne

5. Wenceslas Square

6. Splat

7. Troublemaker

Editorial Reviews

JOHN CAMERON QUARTET Off Centre (2005 UK 7-track CD album remastered from the original 1969 tapes originally released on the collectable Deram label. The albums name perfectly captures the leftfield vibe at play here. Features the rip-roaring title track the ambitious and way out Oomar Cheyenne plus the dancefloor bomb Troublemaker ably supported by Harold McNair Danny Thompson and Tony Carr. A Brit-jazz must have CDSML8409)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little known gem, December 16, 2010

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musickna "musickna" (Saint Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Off Centre (Audio CD)

Many years ago while still a teenager, I picked up a cheap LP called 'Wowie Zowie - The World of Progressive Music'. It was a compilation of artists signed to the Decca label, including very early Genesis, Moody Blues of 'Days of Future Passed' vintage and other early progressive rock artists. However, in the midst of the electric sounds out popped a track called 'Go Away, Come Back Another Day'. This was an acoustic jazz recording - drums, bass, piano and flute - by The John Cameron Quartet.

I loved this cut. It's a beautifully contemplative and relaxed recording that, for me, evokes English city parks on an autumnal Sunday afternoon. Mellow and a little sad.

At that time, I was listening almost entirely to rock music. 'Go Away, Come Back Another Day' showed me another music, and was largely responsible for my future exploration and love of jazz in all its forms.

Over the past decades, I occasionally looked to see if the record that cut came from was available. I'd missed its first release, foolishly. Then I finally found this CD. I was not sure what I was going to get - how many albums do we all own that only have one or two good songs? But this was not be. True, no other cut on 'Off Centre' is like 'Go Away, Come Back Another Day', but the remaining performances are all excellent. The great bass player Danny Thompson whom I know mostly from English folk-rock gives full rein to his jazz inclinations here. Harold McNair plays typically excellent sax and flute and John Cameron reveals himself to be a very fine jazz pianist. The result is prime melodic and inventive 1960s acoustic jazz. I am very glad I finally picked this up, forty years too late. But better late than never.

5.0 out of 5 stars Music Maestro Please!, January 8, 2011

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This review is from: Off Centre (Audio CD)

John Cameron made his British bones in the 60's with pop music arranging and production with Donovan and other Brit bands. He was also a great pianist with a trio of excellent musicians, again, playing with Donovan. Then on to arranging for pop,jazz, film, and opera ! This album is terrific rangeing from free jazz to some gospell bluesy funk that will set your hair on fire.