Eric Darius !

I wish he would make another CD...his first one I didn't like but his second is killer (Just Getting Started)

CountSpatula said:

I wish he would make another CD...his first one I didn't like but his second is killer (Just Getting Started)

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I actually think the opposite .

jmm1713 said:

I actually think the opposite .

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Haha. I liked one from his first one...forgot the name...the others were just weird.

We have smooth jazz lovers here?!

Awsome!

Anyone ever hear of Steve Cole? Nelson Rangell??

I guess that "The smoother the jazz, the jerkier the body movement". It must be to make the audience think they are really playing something.

JazzItUp said:

We have smooth jazz lovers here?!

Awsome!

Anyone ever hear of Steve Cole? Nelson Rangell??

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Nope, I listen to Eric Darius, Gerald Albright, Mike Phillips, Jeff Lorber, Brian Culbertson, Spyro Gira, Norman Brown, and a few others I can't remember.

JazzItUp said:

We have smooth jazz lovers here?!

Awsome!
Anyone ever hear of Steve Cole? Nelson Rangell??

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Of course . --- I've actually met steve many times .

jmm1713 said:

Of course . --- I've actually met steve many times .

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I like Steve's earlier stuff but his latest album has a tenor tone that doesn't really take to my liking. It's funkiness is not bad. Not saying that that makes Steve a bad player. Obviously, he has done his home work but I prefer his previous albums. Maybe he changed his setup on his most recent album.

Wailin' said:

I like Steve's earlier stuff but his latest album has a tenor tone that doesn't really take to my liking. It's funkiness is not bad. Not saying that that makes Steve a bad player. Obviously, he has done his home work but I prefer his previous albums. Maybe he changed his setup on his most recent album.

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Yeah -- He Switched from a dukoff M7 to a guardala super king .

jmm1713 said:

Yeah -- He Switched from a dukoff M7 to a guardala super king .

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I also read that he used Hemke reeds on his recent album. He's usually Van Doren i think.

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whaler said:

I guess that "The smoother the jazz, the jerkier the body movement". It must be to make the audience think they are really playing something.

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This is so not true!! It all depends on the cut they're playing.

JazzItUp said:

We have smooth jazz lovers here?!

Awsome!

Anyone ever hear of Steve Cole? Nelson Rangell??

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Both of these are sax rareties. Nelson is one of the prettiest alto sax players in the smooth jazz genre.

We could name a few more...Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Najee...Eric Marienthal and Richard Elliot, Dave Koz, David Sanborn....

Take a look at this link...scroll down http://www.smoothjazznews.com/archives/index.html

Eric sounds great. The tracks sucked. Typical GRP sound. Meh.

Here's Marc Russo

Tenor playing is ok.....definitely not my bag though. I must say that the horn/brass samples from that keyboard sound like absolute crap! That's modern technology?! I guess I shouldn't complain about them sounding that way, because if they actually sounded good, even more of us would be out of work.

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John