Someone to Watch Over Me

Bennie Wallace | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 1999)
• Original Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Enja
• ASIN: B00000K53T
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,556 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful album. Why so obscure?, November 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Someone to Watch Over Me (Audio CD)

I liked this one so much I bought another copy for my dad. Why isn't Bennie Wallace better known? This music is top notch. Deeply textured. The music's the thing here. Wallace plays with his band, not over them. Mulgrew Miller's piano puts this album into the five star category. It's all good. So why isn't it better known?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Idiosyncratic, but interesting, July 2, 2003

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Someone to Watch Over Me (Audio CD)

It's easy to understand why some people don't like Bennie Wallace. He certainly takes getting used to. With a sound and approach somewhat like David Murray, especially with his tendency almost immediately to go "out" on his solos, Wallace produces not the mellow session I anticipated, but something more interesting and significant. Really, the only number that even comes close to the mellowed out approach is his duo with Mulgrew Miller on the title cut.

Pretty much everything else gets the tear-it-up-and-put-it-back-together treatment. Fine by me. Once you drop expectations for conventionally pretty music and begin to hear Wallace's (and to be fair, the rest of the band's) interpretations of the Gershwin songbook, it all begins to fall into place. High points: the 12 + minutes of "It Ain't Necessarily So," especially the great Yoron Israel 12/8 intro; the title cut; and "How Long Has This Been Going On." The band totally gets Wallace's approach and supplies wonderful support. But it would be hard to miss with this fine a group of musicians, including Mulgrew Miller, piano; Peter Washington, bass; and Yoron Israel, drums. A quite interesting take on classic American music. 4 and 1/2 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deep In Deed!., June 23, 2001

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Prabhu (Petaling Jaya, Selangor Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someone to Watch Over Me (Audio CD)

Benniw Wallace,a seasoned musician who comes from so called "Old-School" Traditions with his sound a reminiscent of the sound of the great and lost tenor titans Coleman Hawkins or Ben Webster. All though there is a vast shade of juxtaposition between him and the elders on technique and range.He definitely posses his own sound and style.All though there is nothing innovative about this album on a musical point of view,it is indeed one of the most beautiful sounding albums, cleverly played and brilliantly conceptualized,this is how every cd should be produced - from the cover art,to the recording quality and the brilliant selection of songs and sidmen.This indeed a definite gem and everyone who is a fan of the old school jazz should definitely have this album in their racks!.Mulgre Miller's killer chops should be noticed.For the audience that fail to recognize all good music as this,u'd rather return it - because it can serve as a disgrace for this album as a gem in an expiring man's hand is useless.