Savanna Jazz Club

Pascal Bokar | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Savanna Jazz Records
• ASIN: B000MTOL1S
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. When Lights Are Low

2. Out of Nowhere

3. Donna Lee

4. How High the Moon

5. Tanga

6. Blue Moon

7. I Love You

8. I Remember You

9. Yaye

10. Blues for Alice

11. I'll Remember April

12. Road Blues

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes nice, sometimes cloying, April 24, 2008

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Dana E. Sullivan "OneIsTwo" (Yardley, PA) - See all my reviews
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After a third listen to this CD, I conclude that if I walked into a club and this group was playing, I would be very pleased to sit and listen. But I wouldn't go out of my way to hear them. On several tracks, Bokar uses this plucking, popping sound like the pizzicato on a violin (I can't tell whether he does it on the strings or with the electronics). This effect is fine for a few bars but used for a whole track it sounds like one of those cloying coffee percolating commercials from the 60s. The vocals, again, would be OK in the relaxed expectations of a lounge, but on the CD they sound like the lungless singing of Chet Baker (though not that morbid). There are a few tracks that actually swing, but not enough to redeem.