Patriotic Music of America

American Military Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: xxx
• ASIN: B00005S818
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,630 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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57 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be misled, January 15, 2003

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"mccdadx3" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Patriotic Music of America (Audio CD)

Do you remember a story several years ago about a music group that called themselves "The Original Artists", then published an album playing everyone else's music? That seems to be what we've got here. This album is played by a group calling themselves, "The American Military Band". When the album arrived, there were no liner notes, no information on who the performers are, and just flags on the label. Pop in the CD, and it brings back memories of days gone by. Remember what it was like to be sitting near the 3rd chair clarinets in high school, or better yet, the kid who played the alto sax without any sense of timing? Ok, be fair I said to myself, Listen to it! Ok, there are timing changes that people miss, bad notes, and some jumbles that sound like marching band practice. There is some balance. The group does a decent job on the pure brass sections of the louder marches, but the piccolo player in Stars/Stripes forever gets lost a couple of times. This album is enjoyable only so far as you get to hear the tunes you love. If you want to get a professional recording though, look elsewhere.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars YIKES!, March 28, 2006

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elviswoman (Dallas, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Patriotic Music of America (Audio CD)

I selected this recording because of the wide variety of songs it contained. I love all of these military and patriotic songs, and have quite fond memories of playing them in band in school.

However, the musicianship on this recording is TERRIBLE. The songs are okay, recognizable, but listening to the clarinets and piccolo's screech out of tune and against the timing of the rest of the band-well that just killed my ability to focus on the overall performance of these songs.

So my two stars are for the collection of songs, the missing 3 stars are for what The American Military Band did to these songs.

For a more professional sounding recording, I would recommend "American Anthems" performed by Gramercy Brass and conducted by John Henry Lambert, also for sale on Amazon.com. It has some of the songs featured on this CD, but the musicianship is dazzling compared to this feeble recording. You can also hear samples of the recordings on "American Anthems"-if they had samples of the recordings on "Patriotic Music of America", I surely would have skipped this purchase.

5.0 out of 5 stars Patriotic Music of America, July 26, 2008

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Mw Wippel Jr. "wipthelip" (Normandy Park, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Patriotic Music of America (Audio CD)

A variety of music that made America. Everything from the National Anthem to Taps. Themes of the Armed Forces and John Phillip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever" are included. We used this CD as background for a two-hour 4th of July Parade in Burien, WA.