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| | Beyond the Wall | | | Music Artist : | | Kenny Garrett | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Nonesuch | | Release Date : | | 2006-08-29 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $18.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Calling
2. Beyond The Wall
3. Qing Wen
4. Realization (Marching Toward The Light)
5. Tsunami Song
6. Kiss to the Skies
7. NOW
8. Gwoka
9. May Peace Be Upon Them
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great JAZZ Album
Submitted on: 2008-10-09 |
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If you are a true jazz fan, get this. If you are not, well, you might not get it at all. Great tunes- rousing, melodic, and soothing all at once. This is the type of music that jazz heads just close their eyes and meditate to.
A fantastic array of musicians fuel the fire that burns. |
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 Complex
Submitted on: 2008-06-25 |
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| This CD is for the true jazz lover...not the easy listening audience. Kenny Garrett goes back to straight ahead style and blends well with the oriental influence. This album would not be the same without the contribution of Pharoah Sanders who has lived through the jazz changes over the last 40 plus years. The talents of his younger crew such as Brian Blade also makes this a unique and enjoyable listen. Hats off to Kenny for putting this together! |
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 Horrible Tone Ruins What Would Be An Otherwise Good Album
Submitted on: 2007-11-09 |
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This album has all the hallmarks of a great jazz album: good compositions, great musicians, and great interplay, but unfortunately saxophonist Kenny Garrett's tone is something to be desired. It's razor-sharp like Jackie McLean's tone is (another saxophonist who had ton of potential, but an awful tone), but I believe Garrett has surpassed McLean with his bitter-biting-edgy tone.
This album has two of my favorite musicians in the whole world on it too: Bobby Hutcherson and Mulgrew Miller. Both of these guys are monster players who have been around for a long time and know how to explore the depths of their instruments. Garrett has been around for quite some time too, but you would think during this time he would at least pay more attention to how the notes come out of his saxophone.
The only reason this album is getting 2-stars is because all of the other musicians tried to make this a great album, but couldn't, because of Garrett. One star goes to them and the other star goes to the compositions. I like the compositions themselves, but am very upset that Garrett chose to pay so little attention to his tone.
If you like awful saxophone tone, then you probably want to pick this album up, but if you're like me, somebody who enjoys a good smooth, pure tone, then go pick up something else maybe something by Stan Getz, Paul Desmond, Joe Lovano...just not Kenny Garrett. |
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pharoah and more pharoah, please
Submitted on: 2007-10-31 |
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| beyond the wall follows, a decade later, a decade of much thought, kenny garrett's pursuance, his interpretation of the music of john coltrane, with john coltrane's ideas, musical and spiritual. all of kenny garrett's brilliance and energy, as expected, are present. but what makes this a five star recording is the intensely beautiful playing by pharoah sanders of tunes that seem to be written exclusively for his powers. which is not to take anything away from the other players, all of them contribute stellar performances. a very satisfying recording. |
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Some of the Best Modern Jazz I've Heard in a While
Submitted on: 2007-03-30 |
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This is my CD from alto saxist Kenny Garrett, & God willing, it won't be my last. Garrett, a big lover of Oriental cultures (like myself) incorporates some of that into this LP. Nonetheless, this is NOT Asian American jazz. The closest it comes to that is the beautiful & hunting "Tsunami Song" in which the main soloist is an erhuist.
The rest of the disc is very diverse. From the straight-ahead (Kiss to the Skies, NOW, & May Peace Be Upon Them), to Chinese-Tibetian influneces (Across the Wall, Qing Wen, & Realization). The opener "Calling" on the other hand sounds more Mid-Eastern than Far Eastern, while "Gwoka" has a slight African favor to it.
The only reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is because of the wordless vocals in some of the songs, which while interesting at first, gets old quickly & interferes with the solos (Realization is the exception). Other than that, this is worth adding to ones jazz collection. |
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