Savanna Jazz Club

Pascal Bokar

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 2007)
• Original Release Date: April 17, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Savanna Jazz Records
• ASIN: B000MTOL1S
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #616,298 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. When Lights Are Low

2. Out of Nowhere - Donald Bailey, , Pascal Bokar, Don Cunningham

3. Donna Lee

4. How High the Moon

5. Tanga

6. Blue Moon

7. I Love You

8. I Remember You

9. Yaye

10. Blues for Alice

11. I'll Remember April

12. Road Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes nice, sometimes cloying, April 24, 2008

By	Dana E. Sullivan "OneIsTwo" (Yardley, PA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After a third listen to this CD, I conclude that if I walked into a club and this group was playing, I would be very pleased to sit and listen. But I wouldn't go out of my way to hear them. On several tracks, Bokar uses this plucking, popping sound like the pizzicato on a violin (I can't tell whether he does it on the strings or with the electronics). This effect is fine for a few bars but used for a whole track it sounds like one of those cloying coffee percolating commercials from the 60s. The vocals, again, would be OK in the relaxed expectations of a lounge, but on the CD they sound like the lungless singing of Chet Baker (though not that morbid). There are a few tracks that actually swing, but not enough to redeem.