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| Sphere |
| Dan Siegel |
| első megjelenés éve: 2009 |
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| (2009)
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| 4.045 Ft
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| 1. | What Goes Around
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| 2. | Good Fortune
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| 3. | Sphere
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| 4. | Gypsy
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| 5. | Then and Now
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| 6. | Sometime Tomorrow
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| 7. | No Regrets
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| 8. | Conundrum
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| 9. | If Not Now
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| 10. | Wishful Thinking
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Jazz
No artist captures the sense of heartfelt freewheeling joy and creativity better than Dan Siegel, whose 1987 album Northern Nights launched the keyboardist to instrumental stardom during ambitious early days of the contemporary jazz format. Siegel brilliantly blends the melodic and rhythmic pop sensibilities he's famous for with traditional jazz roots on his new release Sphere, which features some top L.A. players: bassists Brian Bromberg and Alex Al, saxophonist Bob Sheppard, percussionist Lenny Castro, drummer Joel Taylor and guitarists Allen Hinds and Darrell Crooks. He also reaches back across the years for some bona fide superstar contributions by contemporary jazz legends Larry Carlton and Tom Scott. It's a true full circle effect, as Carlton and Scott first recorded with the keyboardist on Siegel's 1982 self-titled Elektra album. 'Some of the songs on this album reminded me of music I recorded in the old days, so it made sense to bring Larry and Tom on board to add the same kind of magic. My goal with Sphere was to explore the acoustic route and essentially create my own unique vibe, rather than chase commercial airplay as many artists do these days,' says Siegel.
Dan Siegel
Active Decades: '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Smooth jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel has been helping to shape the genre since his recording debut in 1980. Born in Seattle and raised in Eugene, OR, Siegel started taking piano lessons at age eight and was fronting a rock band at 12. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he received a degree in composition from the University of Oregon and began recording his own works. Soon thereafter, well-known independent jazz label Inner City Records signed the young keyboardist, releasing 1980's Nite Ride, which featured guitarist Lee Ritenour. Siegel's second album for Inner City, 1981's The Hot Spot, was more successful and spent ten weeks in the Top Ten of Billboard's jazz chart. In 1983, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue film and television work, as well as a more active recording career.
Spending half of the decade composing TV and film scores as well as releasing several albums of varying interest, he signed with Epic in 1986 and began moving away from the ailing jazz fusion scene and into the adult contemporary jazz sound that he had been toying with all along. Highlights of this era include 1994's worldbeat-influenced Hemispheres and the urban-flavored Clairvoyance, released in 1998. Siegel spent the 1990s recording for a variety of labels, working with some of the bigger names in smooth jazz (Boney James, Larry Carlton, John Patitucci), and leading the hard bop combo Birds of a Feather. In 2000, Legacy Recordings released a greatest hits compilation called Along the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel.
---Zac Johnson, All Music Guide |
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