Shine! [Enhanced]

JD Allen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 16, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Sunny Side Records
• ASIN: B00274SI0Q
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #234,294 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truth, March 3, 2010

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rwsandqmi (Suitland, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Shine! (Audio CD)

Heard this power trio live at Bohemian Caverns in DC last weekend. In short, they were unique, powerful, proficient, mesmerizing. Think Coltrane, Garrison and Jones. Buy them. See them. No one else alive does it similar. No one else ever may have done it better.

5.0 out of 5 stars Shine, Indeed, August 28, 2011

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RADIO FREE CHIP "Music Journalist" (Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shine! (Audio CD)

If there is a better tenor-bass-drums combo out there, I haven't heard it.

Every note means something, and as intense as things can get, this trio never abdicates form and substance in the name of hip cliches and empty frenetic gestures.

Simply put, every track is singing and swinging.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perpetual Post Reviews Shine!, September 26, 2009

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Howard Megdal (New York) - See all my reviews
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HOWARD MEGDAL: At the risk of being too self-referential, this is where differing perspectives of Perpetual Post really helps. While Akie clearly delineates the musical journey in Shine!, I was unable to follow the threads. Akie's got the background to do it- I do not.

AKIE BERMISS: I readily admit that a week ago I did not have the slightest clue who J.D. Allen was. I bought the album purely on the strength of Howard's suggestion that we review it. And I'm eternally grateful. The piano-less saxophone trio is something of a dying art-form where jazz records are concerned. But with the J. D. Allen trio is it alive and kicking.