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| | Black Hope | | | Music Artist : | | Kenny Garrett | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1992-09-08 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Tacit Dance
2. Spanish-Go-Round
3. Computer "G"
4. Van Gogh's Left Ear
5. Black Hope
6. Jackie & The Bean Stalk
7. Run Run Shaw
8. 2 Step
9. Bone Bop
10. Books and Toys
11. Bye Bye Blackbird
12. Last Sax
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Excellent album
Submitted on: 2009-11-01 |
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| "Black Hope" was an excellent contribution to jazz in the 1990s, and holds up very well today. The energy between Kenny Garrett and Joe Henderson is powerful, the compositions are strong, the group dynamic is first-rate, and-- very remarkably-- we get to hear what happens when Kenny Kirkland brings his electric keyboard sounds into a jazz small group situation (although most of the record still features his acoustic piano). I think the results are great: the textures on the more R&B-oriented material are beautiful, and the percussive, subtle synth sounds on the funkier material grooves hard, as does the whole band. Brilliant album, essential for a fan of either Kenny. |
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 Pleasant overview
Submitted on: 2008-10-13 |
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3 1/2
Nice mix of easy listening ballads to Coltrane-esque hard-bop with a little funk in between, Black Hope might try be too many things to too many people for compositional supremacy but this saxophonist delivers beyond decently in all these Jazz sub-genres. |
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This recording belongs in your collection
Submitted on: 2006-11-20 |
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| Kenny is probably the greatest alto saxophonist on the scene today. Whatever genre he enters from burning Giant Steps to gut bucket funk, he plays with absolute authority, ownership, and creativity. This recording also features great peformances by the late Kenny Kirkland, an absolute monster on the piano, and the late saxophone master Joe Henderson. |
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you have to look beneath the groove
Submitted on: 2004-09-26 |
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The reviewer that wrote "every other track is supermarket noise" did not look very deep into this brilliant recording. Every single note of every single track is deeply thought out, and proves that Garrett can play any style just as well or better than any other sax player.
He shows his incredible viruosity on the first track, tacit dance. He displays his sensitivity on the second track, Spanish-Go-Round. It only gets better from there. This is hard-bop at its greatest. Only ignorance could mistake this man's music for "elavator noise." Listening to this recording 100 times, one can hear something new each time. The incredible thing is the amount of interaction and intellectual content that these men put into each track. Though these pieces may be "groovy", Garrett plays them as though he is playing "Giant Steps" and "Niama." This is truly one of his best recordings. |
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 Flawed but great performances and tunes
Submitted on: 2002-02-25 |
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| Truly, the further jazz travels down the decades, the more records are released that do not demand to be heard. Why buy an Antonio Hart or a Roy Hargrove CD when you can put on Miles or Coltrane? Even true for Garrett himself - why buy 'Persuance,' with the availability of Coltrane's output? So for me, it's all about the tunes and the solos. Black Hope contains a heavy does of both. Mulgrew Miller has never sounded better and Garrett even outdoes himself on tunes like 'Black Hope.' There is a fire that was captured in this recording - all the players sound positively incandescent. In a sea of irrelevant CD's, you'll find yourself putting this one back in time and time again. Check it out. |
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