Sea Level

Sea Level | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 21, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1977
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capricorn / Umgd
• ASIN: B000009D69
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #297,851 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, February 27, 1999

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This review is from: Sea Level (Audio CD)

I dropped this CD in a car with an Infinity stereo and Wow! I heard Sea Level years ago but it didn't sound near this good. The digital remastering of the original recordings really brings this music to life. For those of you who like complicated jazz rhythms you should check this out. I personally don't know of any other music like Sea Level. It has a touch of Allman Brothers with jazz like Sting used to use. For me now I have to buy the rest of the remastered recordings.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rock/Jazz/Southern Soul masterpiece, March 4, 2001

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Brad Kelly (Belle Mead, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sea Level (Audio CD)

This album blew me away 24 years ago and still holds up strong. The arrangements and musicianship are stellar. Flawless playing.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Neglected in 1977. Neglected still., May 3, 2008

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Philip Bradshaw (toronto canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sea Level (Audio CD)

To me this sounds better than it ever has. I don't mean in an audiophile sense but, rather, in a purely musical one. These guys sure can play! I did buy three of their five recordings as they were released in the late seventies and early eighties. Obviously, as I bought more than one, I did enjoy the music all those years ago. As an older and, I hope, wiser person, I now appreciate better Sea Level's considerable talents.

On this record, as opposed to the later On the Edge, I prefer the instrumental jazz-rock-fusion cuts on side one (Rain in Spain, Tidal Wave) to the songs featuring vocals. The vocals are pretty ordinary - although the instrumental breaks in these songs are good. Side two starts of promisingly with Nothing Matters but the Fever and then continues with the excellent Chuck Leavell opus Grand Larceny. The Paul Simon penned Scarborough Fair features some cool and restrained piano work from Leavell. The album closes with the inoffensive but relatively nondescript instrumental Just a Good Feeling. There is, throughout the record, naturally, an element of The Allman Brothers.

Although this debut isn't their best, it remains an enjoyable Sea Level recording.