Scott's Red Star

Patrick Noonan, Peter Noonan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 1, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00004SCHS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #942,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aimitie en Rose

2. Paradiso

3. Afro Blue

4. Trees - sketch

5. The Trees They Do Grow High

6. Madaket Road

7. A Lotus on Irish Streams

8. 55 South

9. Chivalry

10. Chase theme from "The Wolves of Bristol"

11. Tinder Box

12. Dark

13. Washboard

14. Summertime

15. Bear Mountain Lookout

16. The Senator's Rag

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Compleat Aural Spectrum through a Prism of Expression, March 9, 2001

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BOB VANARSDALE (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scott's Red Star (Audio CD)

Stunning, varied, insightful, refreshing ... Just cold adjectives that can't begin to describe the heart, soul, and drop-yer-jaw musicianship that just pours from this first-time collaboration between brothers Peter and Patrick Noonan. Each an accomplished composer and recording artist -- Peter at piano and Patrick on guitars -- their conjoined talents are ably abetted by yet-another-Noonan Chris on drums, long-time friends and musical associates Paul Lieberman on flutes, piccolo and tenor sax, Scott Lee on acoustic bass, and the consummate violinist Jonathan Levi whose bow-play would just flat-out steal the show from any other group of less-able musicians.

From playful to bittersweet, from Spanish guitar to Gershwin, with a breath of calypso, just a hint of Charlie Daniels, a nod to Mongo Santamaria and a wink to ragtime, this disc continues to delight, surprise, inspire, and just plain move me after holding the top spot on my living room playlist for almost a year now. It should appeal to anyone possessed of a taste for jazz, an ear for composition, a sense for style and technique, an appreciation for excellence in the art of engineering music, and the peculiarly-human need for emotional engagement with the aural cosmos.