Points of View

Harry Sheppard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1993)
• Label: Justice Records
• ASIN: B000000NPI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #876,507 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What It Was

2. T.O.P.

3. Gee

4. Bushmasters

5. Two for One

6. Points of View

7. Double Image

8. Outside In

9. Don't Mention It

10. Deerbod

11. Dylan's Debut

12. Sidewalk Strut

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Stop Listening, November 12, 2004

By 

Edward Lewis "tigerlewis" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Points of View (Audio CD)

I saw Harry at a jam session one day and he gave me a "pre-release" cassett tape of a session he had just finished for Justice Records. I've always liked Harry's playing, but I was surprised by what I heard. The recording was all fusion but everything I had heard him play in person was either straight ahead or avant-garde. I immediately decided that this was something I had to have when it came out.

That cassett he gave me was "Points of View" and it's simply fantastic. I'm not a huge fan of "fusion" stuff because so much of it is dummied down - you know - lowest common denominator stuff.

A friend of mine says that, to make a fusion CD, you make the recording and then cut all of the best, hippest stuff out of it. He jokingly says that they sometimes have to stop the recording because what he played was just simply TOO GOOD for a fusion CD. That gives you a general idea of what real jazz musicians think about fusion.

But none of that applies to "Points of View". With a lineup of top notch players including Steve Masakowski and Marvin "Smitty" Smith, this is a fusion recording that any real jazz musician would be proud to own. The CD is dripping with all things that are hip in jazz. Great tunes. Great lines. Great music. It's the kind of recording you can't stop listening to. I've listened to it at least a few hundred times myself in the past decade since it was released.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody Luvs Harry, May 20, 2004

By 

Brian Rosenfeld (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Points of View (Audio CD)

This is a spectacular collection of Latin songs by a vibes player who has got a spectacular Latin feel for a guy from Roslyn.