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| Joyful |
| Bobby Lyle |
| első megjelenés éve: 2002 |
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| (2002)
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| 4.201 Ft
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| 1. | You And I
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| 2. | Give Me Your Heart
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| 3. | Sweetest Taboo
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| 4. | Rain Walkin'
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| 5. | Don't Make Me Wait
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| 6. | Genie In A Bottle
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| 7. | Spankin'
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| 8. | Caught Up (featuring Howard Hewitt)
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| 9. | I Love Your Smile
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| 10. | Millennium Dance
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| 11. | TSF
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| 12. | Midnight
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| 13. | How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
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Jazz
Recorded: Westlake, Inner Sound, Los Angeles, California; Poyel, Hollywood, California; Penny Avenue Studios, Inglewood, California
Bobby Lyle - piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards, synthesizer, programming
Ruben "R.C." Cruz, Howard Hewitt - vocals
Everett Harp - soprano saxophone, synthesizer
Gerald Albright - saxophone
Rick Braun - trumpet
Fred Shred, Peter White - acoustic guitar
Charles Fearing, Norman Brown - guitar
Larry Kimpel, Stan Sargent, Alex Al - bass
Ricky Lawson, Tony Moore - drums
Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
Robin Lyle - programming
This master of the elegant funk tune launched a promising solo career in the late '70s, long before the term "smooth jazz" was coined, then hit again in the late '80s and early '90s with a series of hits on Atlantic. Bobby Lyle has been out of the loop in that radio format for a few years, but pianist/Three Keys Music founder Marcus Johnson -- a big fan from childhood -- had the insight to sign the versatile Lyle on to help launch his new label of music best described as "metropolitan smooth." No doubt Lyle's old fan base would have come out of the woodwork to support a recording with 13 fresh tracks that range from radio friendly to wild, jamming, and improvisational, but a little big-name support couldn't hurt. Fortunately, Lyle doesn't let his popular cohorts overshadow the melodic foundations of his keyboards and acoustic piano. He enjoys doubling with Norman Brown's crisp guitar licks on the easy funk of "Give Me Your Heart," then going to the high register for a few extra notes. The song plays like a laid-back conversation between old pals. "Rain Walkin" is a bright and bouncy retro-soul piece that also plays like happy chatter between Lyle's catchy melody and Peter White's responsive acoustic guitar harmony. Lyle jumps squarely into the new millennium groovewise on the chunky "Spankin," whose melody harks back to his early days via Fender Rhodes. He plays all the verses, then joins with Rick Braun's trumpet and Gerald Albright's sax for a jamming, percussive chorus. The same trio effect works well on the more lighthearted acoustic piano jaunt "Millennium Dance," which features a unique call and response by Lyle's own high- and low-register lines. Not that he needs cover tunes, but his take on Sade's "Sweetest Taboo" is fairly sensual, though less thoughtful than "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" Bridging today's pop scene with his own history (his 1977 debut was called The Genie), he can't resist a feisty, blues-drenched romp through Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle," featuring a few bars of Middle Eastern exotica and Everette Harp on sax and EWI.
---Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
Bobby Lyle
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Adult Contemporary, Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz-Pop, Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
A flexible pianist and keyboardist, Bobby Lyle has long straddled the boundaries between straightahead and more commercial forms of jazz. He grew up in Minneapolis and at age six took piano lessons from his mother who was a church organist. Lyle played clarinet for a period in junior high school before switching back to piano. He considers Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner and Art Tatum to have been his early influences. Lyle's first gig was when he was 16 and, after two years of college, in 1964 he became a fulltime musician. He spent six years playing locally in Minneapolis and then toured for two years with Young-Holt Unlimited. After returning to Minneapolis for local work (recording a set in 1974 that was released just in Japan), in 1976 Lyle moved to Los Angeles where he quickly got a job with Sly and the Family Stone. After playing with Ronnie Laws, he recorded two solo albums for Capitol. Lyle made guest appearances on recordings by George Benson, Phyllis Hyman and Esteher Phillips and in the early 1980's toured with Benson and became Bette Midler's musical director. After two years with Al Jarreau, Lyle recorded a straightahead combo date for King (which was reissued as an Evidence CD), conducted for Anita Baker in 1986 and worked with Gerald Albright. That year he began a long association with Atlantic with his 1991 album of piano solos Pianomagic being one of the highlights of his career. In the late 1990's, Bobby Lyle remains a highly versatile and valuable keyboardist, both as a leader (frequently appearing in the Los Angeles area) and as a sideman.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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