Two's Company, Three's a Crowd

Greg Chako | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chako Productions Pte Ltd
• ASIN: B000G8P8SK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,046,109 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Day`s of Wine and Roses

2. I Could Write a Book

3. Estate

4. Almost Like Being in Love

5. Portrait of Jenny

6. Mean to Me

7. Some Other Spring

8. I Wish You Love

9. Autumn Leaves

10. In My Solitude

11. You`re My Everything

12. If

13. Who Can I Turn To?

14. So Many Stars

15. Time After Time

16. Take the A-Train

Editorial Reviews

Review

sophisticated and inventive soloists, an asset to any first-rate jazz group. Chako is thrilled to be working with such superb talent.  But then, there s the issue of keeping a bass line moving, something no doubt endemic to American musicians. Chako is really earning his money because, when he s not soloing, he s not laying out. Sure, both pianists get a left hand line going, but it s without the authority in timbre or resonance that a bass line on a guitar produces, much less a bass fiddle.   When Chako solos, his lines are original and imaginative, with a crisp attack, but mostly a big, warm tone. Any jazz guitar enthusiast should have Greg Chako on radar. He has a cool situation in the Far East where he s found some extraordinary piano players. But he s worthy of any jazz group anywhere and has something that s often elusive among guitarists: a style! More power to him. --Jim Carlton, Just Jazz Guitar

Product Description

a rewarding experience for afficionados of the piano/guitar duet setting. the guitar is the primary instrument featured on most of these tracks.  The opening tune, The Days of Wine and Roses, is, however, stated by Matsumoto. When Chako steps forward for his solo, he employs the Wes Montgomery octave-style approach in a most facile fashion. The album consists of a number of romantic and intimate ballads like Bruno Martino's Estate and Robinson/Burdge's Portrait of Jenny, where the guitar weaves the lyrical melody with gently flowing single-line solos.

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