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Product Description
Dan Bull is Eskimo Joe's Keyboardist's and this is his Soaring Debut Solo EP. Working with the Acclaimed Debaser Team: Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe), Rodney Aravena (End of Fashion) and Andrew Lawson (The Avenues) (Responsible for Some Releases by Little Birdy and End of Fashion), this EP Exposes Bull's Rich Unique Voice, Dynamic Piano Playing, and Song Writing Style Rooted in the Traditions of Brian Wilson, Paul Mccartney and Elton John's 'yellow Brick Road'.

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The Little Willies
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Disappointing
  • Willies disappointment
  • Fun little retreat to the past
  • Chilley Willies!
  • Best when Norah sings.
 The Little Willies
The Little Willies
Manufacturer: Milking Bull Records/EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000E6UJXS
Release Date: 2006-03-07

Tracks:

  1. Roly Poly
  2. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
  3. Love Me
  4. It's Not You It's Me
  5. Best of All Possible Worlds
  6. No Place To Fall
  7. Roll On
  8. Gotta Get Drunk
  9. Streets of Baltimore
  10. Easy As The Rain
  11. Tennessee Stud
  12. Night Life
  13. Lou Reed

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One of the freshest country albums of the year comes not out of Nashville, but rather New York, from a sporadic band with the unlikely (and somewhat suggestive) moniker of the Little Willies. At times, the fivesome (named in homage to Willie Nelson) hearkens to the great historic western-swing bands--crack, loose-limbed musicians fronted by a hypnotically sublime girl singer. If that sleepy female voice (and her distinctive piano) sounds astonishingly like Norah Jones, that's because it is Jones, exploring the country side of the blues. The group--rounded out by Lee Alexander (bass), Jim Campilongo (electric guitar), Richard Julian (guitar, vocals), and Dan Rieser (drums)--formed in 2003 to play the Living Room on New York's Lower East Side and just do the classic American music they grew up enjoying. That's why their low-key labor of love, recorded without commercial expectations and promoted under the radar, includes both originals (including the achingly sweet "Easy as the Rain") and covers of Hank Williams's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"; Nelson's "I Gotta Get Drunk" and "Nightlife"; Kris Kristofferson's "Best of All Possible Worlds"; Townes Van Zandt's "No Place to Fall"; and Leiber & Stoller's "Love Me" (made great by Elvis Presley). Throughout, the record maintains the slightly inebriated, bar-band feel of a live club performance, especially on "Lou Reed," a very funny saga of a cow-tipping incident possibly involving the dark rocker. This is an extraordinary record, not only for its musicianship, but for the infectious joy and exuberance of performers who remember just how fun it is to play music from the inside out. --Alanna Nash

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Come Away with Me
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Album Description

THE LITTLE WILLIES are Lee Alexander, Jim Campilongo, Norah Jones, Richard Julian and Dan Rieser. On their self-titled debut CD they cover a range of songs by Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt and Fred Rose, as well as bandmember originals.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2007-07-09

A big fan of Norah and country music I was excited by the potential of this album but it is a waste of time. The songs uniformly fail to excite, you get the sense that none of the very talented people involved in the production really cared about putting together a good recording. Not awful, but not good which for me was very disappointing.

2 out of 5 stars Willies disappointment.......2007-05-12

A found this CD disappointing. The tracks seem too raw and a touch unprofessional.

4 out of 5 stars Fun little retreat to the past.......2007-03-23

This is so reminiscent of my childhood. Song styles of the past, very folksy, bluesy and sweet. I really enjoyed her selections and the vocal harmony.

1 out of 5 stars Chilley Willies!.......2007-03-09

This CD was recommended with Norah Jones' new CD by Amazon so I took the advice and purchased it! Wrong!

IT WAS AWFUL!!!!!

3 out of 5 stars Best when Norah sings........2007-03-09

Not a bad album, but clearly best when Norah Jones has the mic. This seems to have been a diversion for her, rather than a serious effort. Still, if you are a NJ fan, this is a must. It does nicely show her affection for the C&W genre.
The Stan Kenton Christmas Carols
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Fantastic brass playing
  • Big Brass Big Style
  • This is a 'must have' Christmas album
 The Stan Kenton Christmas Carols

Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000HDZK3C
Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

  1. Good King Wenceslas
  2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
  3. We Three Kings Of Orient Are
  4. Once In Royal David's City
  5. The Holly And The Ivy
  6. Greensleeves
  7. O Tannenbaum
  8. Angels We Have Heard On High
  9. O Holy Night
  10. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
  11. Adeste Fideles
  12. Christmas Medley
  13. Motown Jingle Bells

Album Description

Merry Stan Kenton Christmas! This unique collection of holiday cheer performed by the Boston Brass features the great Christmas charts from the Kenton Band plus two new ones by JD Shaw and Sam Pilafian. While these great arrangements are a big part of Stan Kenton Christmas Carols, they are only part of the story. The other part is the collection of players known as the Brass All Stars Big Band. The brass quintet Boston Brass, one of the busiest and best known quintets working today, is the foundation for this extended group, and they are the ones that came up with the idea of doing a new recording of Kenton's music. If you look at the names of the players, you will see amongst them many current or former members of Canadian Brass and Empire Brass. While there have been recordings made up of brass sections from major symphony orchestras, this one may be a first for the brass quintet world!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic brass playing.......2007-01-22

Bought this CD and saw a performance live in December. It's really great.
I've heard Boston Brass live four times times, doing various tunes, and they've been terrific each time. For this CD, the group brought in some of the best brass players (including former members of Empire Brass and Canadian Brass among others) in the world to create a Stan Kenton-esque band.
JD Shaw's horn playing blows me away, and I love the sound of Andrew Hitz on tuba.
If you're a brass player (and even if you're not), you should buy this CD.

5 out of 5 stars Big Brass Big Style.......2007-01-14

This is an amazing CD - full Orchestral Brass Section with Rhythmn Section playing with some seriously original and high class arrangements. Anyone who wants a Christmas CD with attitude - this is the one !! Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars This is a 'must have' Christmas album.......2006-12-28

Wow! What a surprise. Any Kenton entheusiast would recognize the beauty of this. Personally, after hearing some of the more recent Christmas CDs on the radio, regardless of genre, this, I think, should be named Christmas Music CD of the Year.
Lovers Leap
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Masculine powerpop nympho
  • K-kool!
  • Blinding debut from Bryk
 Lovers Leap
Dan Bryk
Manufacturer: Scratchie Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004YX01
Release Date: 2000-10-03

Tracks:

  1. Mark Turmell V2.0
  2. Fingers
  3. She Doesn't Mean a Thing to Me Tonight
  4. I Love You Goodbye
  5. BBW (Chunky Girl)
  6. Spadina Expressway
  7. Bound to Be Happy
  8. The Letter Home
  9. But This Time
  10. Memo to Myself
  11. Big Things Like This
  12. Forgiven
  13. And Now Our Love Is Dead
  14. Real Time Theme Song Contest Submission

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Masculine powerpop nympho.......2006-04-29

With not many instruments, and some crazy thoughs thrown together comes this album. Bryk starts us off with his past. I don't even know who the hell Mark Turmell is, but I guess I do now after hearing that song. Fingers is a great piano ballad implying surviving lonliness by playing the piano and doing other activities. She Doesn't Mean A Thing To Me Tonight has a funky pop melody that reminds one of Fountains of Wayne with less production. I do not like his vocals on this one when he's stretching his voice. I Love You Goodbye is a nice smooth song of saying it's time to move on. BBW (Chunky Girl) is a poppy marching band type of song. Sounds kind of corny, but I don't think it's corny at all. It's a cute sounding song with a great melody and lyrics. Spadina Expressway is in Canada. He's creating imagery with a highway.

In Big Thinks Like This, he "talk sings" quite a bit. It's okay, and goes well with the tune, but doesn't spark my interest.

The bonus song starts off like a harp and turns into a happyish tune. It's one of my faves off the album about him submitting his work to record companies and such.

The rest of the songs deal more with his lonliness or about him not wanting or glad to be leaving significant others.

The only thing I don't like about this album is that sometims he likes to whine. You think he whines because it goes well enough with the song, but sometimes you wonder if it's because he doesn't have vocals for those certain portions of songs otherwise. I think FOW should try some kind of collaboration with Bryk, now that'd be interesting!

5 out of 5 stars K-kool!.......2000-12-07

This is real real good. I don't think that many people have heard this record, and that's a shame because he's the best new singer-songwriter I've heard this year. This sort of falls into the default of new wave power pop cause the hooks are distractingly strong and his talented band plays straight-ahead in that well-constructed Elton Costello sixties-meets-seventies way. Byrk's songs are deceptively simple at first listen, but when he plays piano (which is about half the time) you can hear him dropping some amateurishly ambitious jazz voicings. The lyrics are the finest I've heard in a while, slyly funny and heartbreakingly honest love/hate notes that really strike a chord. It's pretty direct, me and you stuff, not a lot of poetry and the storytelling is definitely in the details, but it's pretty incisive and modern, nowhere as sappy as the 70's stuff he probably likes (his self-pity isn't too cloying and his anger is usually self-directed, more Lou Reed/Jonathan Richman than Dean Friedman/James Taylor). He's rough around the edges as a singer--he's not going to win an American Music Award any time soon--but neither was Dylan or Cohen or Fagen or Newman (Randy or Colin, take your pick) all major dudes who clearly influence Byrk's singing and writing. Byrk's voice cracks a fair bit (think Malkmus or Neil Young) but his melodies go all over the damn place and he's gonna follow 'em when they do. There's no one style and there's nothing totally groundbreaking, but you seldom hear so many influences piled up into a bunch of wonderfully catchy songs you've clearly never heard before. A minor complaint is you don't hear enough of sweet and tasty main guitarist Kurt Swinghamer, especially because Bryk overplays and no-one stops him. Adam Schlesinger signed Byrk to his label and he should produce his next one (and tie one of his hands behind his back).

5 out of 5 stars Blinding debut from Bryk.......2000-10-06

Lovers Leap is a very interesting melange of The Eels, Randy Newman, The Flaming Lips and Jonathan Richman. Superb songwriting and arrangements and a band with searing guitars and Newmanesque pianos
Dan Bull
Average customer rating: Not rated
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    Dan Bull
    Manufacturer: Independent
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0009SQ72S
    Release Date: 2005-05-30

    Tracks:

    1. Mr. Booth
    2. Getting Caught
    3. In Your Room
    4. I Love You
    5. Ripped

    Album Details

    Dan Bull is Eskimo Joe's Keyboardist's and this is his Soaring Debut Solo EP. Working with the Acclaimed Debaser Team: Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe), Rodney Aravena (End of Fashion) and Andrew Lawson (The Avenues) (Responsible for Some Releases by Little Birdy and End of Fashion), this EP Exposes Bull's Rich Unique Voice, Dynamic Piano Playing, and Song Writing Style Rooted in the Traditions of Brian Wilson, Paul Mccartney and Elton John's 'yellow Brick Road'.
    Nothing Bad Again
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Nothing Bad Again

      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000GW8QO4
      Release Date: 2006-08-01

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