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| | Happy People | | | Music Artist : | | Kenny Garrett | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Warner Bros / Wea | | Release Date : | | 2002-03-12 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Song For DiFang
2. Happy People
3. Tango In 6
4. Ain't Nothing But The Blues
5. Song #8
6. Halima's Story
7. Monk-ing Around
8. A Hole In One
9. Thessalonika
10. Asian Medley - Akatonbo/Arirang/Tsubasawa Kudasai
11. Brother B. Harper
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Ageless
Submitted on: 2008-09-04 |
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| Excellent jazz CD. Balanced if you love the saxaphone as lead. Both old school and modern jazz with eastern accents. This is consistent with the "voice" of Kenny Garrett which normally is in a minor scale. Would recommend as good album for anyone including one new to jazz. |
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Different, but still great!
Submitted on: 2007-02-22 |
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| Kenny is one of the best saxophonists alive, and this album is a different take on the virtuosity he typically displays. "Happy People" is groove-oriented, so it won't challenge the listener as much as, say, "Songbook," but the tracks are definitely fun. I can listen to the title track for hours. You can really feel the energy of the band in a lot of this CD. The vocals are tastefully incorporated into the songs. Song #8 should satisfy the jazz purists out there. It's got your typical post-bop feel. Track-by-track, the songs become more harmonically complex. I really respect Kenny Garrett for stepping back from blistering sixteenth note runs to give us some nice grooving music. "Happy People" has a nice range of styles. If you're new to jazz and looking to understand what the greats are playing, this might be a great one for you. |
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 Happy People
Submitted on: 2006-06-23 |
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| Happy People has a cut that is out of this world. No.4 "Ain't Nothing But The Blues" is worth price of entire CD. This is one of those cuts that can carry you into another world. I have driven three hours with that one five minute cut (No.4) playing on "repeat mode", arrived at my destination and still sat in my car until set finished. I would be first in line to hear Kenny Garrett do an entire concert off that one cut, just taking variations, solos, fun experimentation, funky experimentation, into a continuous mesmerizing stratum. Matter of fact, I'd pay twice the ticket price. |
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 Not your usual Kenny Garrett...
Submitted on: 2004-11-16 |
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but there's a reason.
Kenny recorded much of Standard of Language at the same time that he recorded Happy People. It is under my impression that his aim for the much poppier, smoother Happy People was to cheer people up in a time of sorrow (right after the 9-11 tragedy), hence Standard of Language was released a year later than Happy People.
If you want feel-good jazz performed by a brilliant jazz musician, pick up a copy of Happy People.
If you want that vintage Kenny Garrett jazz sound at all its intense and sizzling goodness, look into his other albums such as Songbook, Standard of Language, etc. |
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 i don't like this CD
Submitted on: 2003-12-30 |
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| This CD bummed me out. I was hoping to hear some fancy "young lion jazz" -my first mistake- and instead got fusion. Only 2 1/2 tunes on the CD swing. The rest are all funk vamps. These are good musicians but I heard this music the first time around and don't have much desire to here a more commercial, less adventurous version than what came before. |
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