Pieces Of A Dream - Ahead To The Past

Pieces Of A Dream Ahead To The PastЖанр: Smooth Jazz/ Contemporary jazz
Страна-производитель диска: USA
Год издания диска: 1999
Издатель (лейбл): Capitol Records Inc
Номер по каталогу: CDP 598488
Страна: USA
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC) (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 58:24
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Треклист:
01. Took So Long (5:26)
02. Maliibu Nights (5:41)
03. Why Won't You Let Me Love You (4:34)
04. Love You For Life (4:48)
05. The Good Life (Lo Feliz Vida) (4:28)
06. You And I (4:25)
07. Philly High (4:33)
08. It's You That I Want (4:47)
09. Driving It Home (4:39)
10. You (4:33)
11. Bella Voce (Beautlful Voice) (5:11)
12. Cry Of The Lonely (5:19)

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Review by Jonathan Widran, AMG
Making sweet music together pretty much constantly since meeting at a Philadelphia junior high school circa mid-70s, the principals in Pieces (keyboardist James K. Lloyd, bassist Cedric Napoleon, drummer Curtis Harmon) were way ahead of their time. From the get go, they mixed jazz and RB long before there was a format for that, and all of their commercial success has not found them deviating from that original vision. Their most enduring radio hit is the instrumental piano ballad For You, and that sort of elegance runs all through the tunes here, even the most rousing tracks like the skittery, jazzy Driving It Home featuring Lloyd's amazing grace. Still, the collection could use a little more of that sort of chunky, bass driven groove intersperced with all the mid-tempo lushness. Melodically, though, Pieces never misses, from the soprano sax driven opener Took So Long (horn played by occasional group member Eddie Baccus, Jr.) through the stunningly romantic (and also soprano based) Love You For Life. The band indicates that the title means they have returned to a sound reminiscent of their early 80s work, and the retro vocal track You and I seems to fit that concept. Maysa Leak takes the floating lead vocal (anyone remember when they called these tunes Quiet Stormlike?) and Cherie Mitchell chimes in with a wonderfully bubbly Rhodes solo. The melancholy Cry of the Lonely is Lloyd's equivalent here to For You, a true showcase for one of the genre's finest melodic keyboard whizzes.