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| Merry Magic |
| Eric Reed |
| első megjelenés éve: 2003 |
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| (2006)
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| 5.860 Ft
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| 1. | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
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| 2. | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
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| 3. | Winter Wonderland
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| 4. | Angels in the Snow
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| 5. | Santa Baby
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| 6. | Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
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| 7. | The Christmas Song
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| 8. | Little Drummer Boy
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| 9. | Oh Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
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| 10. | I Wonder as I Wander
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| 11. | What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
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| 12. | Christmas Blues
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| 13. | After the Holidays
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Jazz / Christmas
Eric Reed - Organ, Piano, Vocals
Barak Mori - Bass
Erin Bode - Vocals
Paula West - Vocals
Rodney Green - Drums
Steve Nelson Quartet - Vibraphone
* Alan Silverman - Mastering Engineer
* Danny Kopelson - Engineer, Mixing
* Dena Katz - Photography
* Jimmy Katz - Photography
* Peta Scriba - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
* Tim Conklin - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
The Merry Magic Christmas CD by pianist Eric Reed covers many moods. Some of the music is reverent ("Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" and "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"), much of it is swinging with Steve Nelson's vibes making the group sound a bit like the Modern Jazz Quartet, and some of it is surprising, including an up-tempo version of "The Little Drummer Boy" and a vocal by Reed on a medium-slow version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." Erin Bode (who is very good on "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve") and Paula West have two vocals apiece. Throughout the set, Eric Reed shows off his versatility in unaccompanied solos ("Christmas Blues" is particularly enjoyable), the trio, a quartet, and backing the singers. A fine effort.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Eric Reed
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jun 21, 1970 in Philadelphia, PA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
Pianist Eric Reed is one of a growing number of talented musicians who have emerged from Wynton Marsalis' bands to pursue rewarding solo careers in their own right. Born in Philadelphia in 1970, Reed's first exposure to music came through his father, a minister and local gospel singer; he began playing piano at age two and soon discovered jazz, quickly developing into a musical prodigy. He entered music school at age seven, and resisted classical training in favor of jazz, inspired early on by Dave Brubeck, Ramsey Lewis, Art Blakey, and Horace Silver. Four years later, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he digested enough jazz history that he was able to begin playing around the city's jazz scene as a teenager, both as a leader and a sideman for the likes of Gerald Wilson, Teddy Edwards, John Clayton, and Clora Bryant. He first met Wynton Marsalis at age 17, and toured briefly with the trumpeter the following year (his first and only at Cal State-Northridge). In 1989, Reed officially joined Marsalis' band as the replacement for Marcus Roberts; the following year, he issued his debut album as a leader, A Soldier's Hymn, on Candid, with backing by his regular trio of bassist Dwayne Burno and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.
Over 1991-1992, Reed worked with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson as a sidelight, returning to Marsalis' group by the end of 1992. He cut a pair of well-received albums for MoJazz, It's All Right to Swing and The Swing and I, during 1993-1994, and in 1995 embarked on his first tour as leader of his own group. Two more dates for Impulse!, 1996's Musicale and 1997's Pure Imagination, found his style maturing and his critical and commercial success growing; he also spent 1996-1998 playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. 1999's Manhattan Melodies, his first outing for Verve, was a colorful and sophisticated tribute to New York City; that year, he also undertook the most prominent of several film-scoring projects, the Eddie MurphyMartin Lawrence comedy Life. Reed also continued to record with Marsalis up into the new millennium. 2001 brought the acclaimed Happiness on Nagel-Heyer, and the next year saw two releases, the well-received From My Heart and a duet album with frequent cohort Wycliffe Gordon on trombone, We.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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