Moodswing

moodswing

Track Listings

1. Everything

2. Kind of Perfect

3. Unrecovered

4. Ashes

5. Suspended

6. Holding in the World

7. Blood

8. Church Organ

9. Traffic

10. Humble Beginnings

Moodswing,Kacy Crowley,Stable Records,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,a raspy rock and roll secret whispered in your ear...like chewing on ice in the ocean.

Moodswing

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My Favorite Jazz CD
Tasty, if this is what you want
This Music gets me in the Right Mood!
Thanks, Joshua, for an album I can FEEL!
Quite good

MoodSwing
Joshua Redman Quartet
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MS1
Release Date: 1994-09-13

Tracks:

Sweet Sorrow
Chill
Rejoice
Faith
Alone In The Morning
Mischief
Dialogue
The Oneness Of Two (In Three)
Past In The Present
Obsession
Headin' Home

Customer Reviews:

My Favorite Jazz CD.......2007-06-10

I have been listening to jazz since the 70s. I have about 70 jazz CDs and have seen live jazz quite a few times. This CD is my favorite jazz album. I first became aware of this quartet from watching the TV show Sessions on West 54th. I recorded it and watched it many times. When I bought the CD with the same tunes, I was blown away. First of all I really like the tunes, which to me is just as important as the playing. The playing is great too. What can I say? This is my favorite quartet. The vibe/sound is very appealing.

Tasty, if this is what you want.......2006-12-18

This disc is a funny one. The much of the playing is outstanding, and you couldn't ask for a better rhythm section line-up, period. The songs are very professionally polished as well. To me, however, there was a surprising lack of emotional quality to the entire disc. Like some other reviewers, the riffs, changes, and other elements seem very familiar, and must at least have been modeled on other people's songs. That's not a crime (since all art builds on its predecessors), but that sense is very strong with this disc. It reminds me of when my friends and I used to put on an album by the Raspberries and played a game in which we guessed which song had been ripped off for each part of the Raspberries' song. Also, I disagree with the other review that characterizes the sax as "Coltranesque". To me, the sax playing on this record is much more in line with Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington Jr., and Boots Randolph than with the Coltrane, Shorter, Kenny Garrett line of players. In the end, the disc is worth buying and listening to for the piano, bass and drums, which are as good as it ever gets despite the cliched nature of the songs.

This Music gets me in the Right Mood!.......2006-09-23

This cd reminded me why I love jazz so much. It captures all those qualities that make this genre of music so wonderful and unique, from the moments of subtle beauty and mystery, to infectious beats and soaring solos that make your hands and feet want to start moving at once! I absolutely love this album. My personal favorite tracks are "Faith" and "Past in the Present" but to be honest, every song on this cd is a winner! In Redman's sound you can hear a little of Sonny Rollins, and of course Coltrane's influence on tunes such as "The Oneness of Two", but there is something contemporary and modern here as well. Captured on this disc is a virtuoso sax player looking back and into the future of his art simultaneously. I have bought more of Joshua Redman's music, but in my opinion this cd is his best effort. Even if you like jazz just a little bit, you MUST listen to this cd. When the last funky notes fade away, you will be a jazz addict, desperate for that musical high it provides!

Thanks, Joshua, for an album I can FEEL!.......2006-09-08

One of my earlier reviews here was for Joshua Redman's "Elastic" back in July 2005. At the time I alluded to the way I had always considered Redman to be a though-provoker as opposed to a groover. The former is often useful but I find the latter is always much more fun.

I think I was being kind at the time. The truth is, I'd always seen Redman as a saxophonist who was much too busy trying to be clever. I felt he played from the head rather than from the heart and as a result, a lot of his music left me feeling a bit cold. He acknowledges this jazz phenomenon - though not necessarily in his own playing - on the inner sleeve notes of this CD. An acquaintance apparently said to him:

"Jazz is cool and all, but it's not really my type of thing. I mean, I respect it, but I can't really get into it. I like music that makes me feel something. Jazz isn't really about that. With jazz, you gotta think all the time. Jazz is all complicated and weird. It's for those special types of people who like talking about stuff and figuring things out. Jazz is way too deep for me."

I think that's a sweeping generalisation. I think it only applies to certain kinds of jazz and/or certain kinds of jazz musicians. Redman himself goes on to say that he ackowledges the fact that many consider jazz to be an intellectual music:

"Most people assume that the appreciation of jazz is a long, arduous, and painfully serious cerebral undertaking. Jazz might be good for you but it just isn't any fun. This image is simple, powerful, and dangerously appealing. But it is also egregiously false. Jazz is music. And great jazz, like all great music, attains its value not through intellectual complexity but through emotional expressivity."

Well, he certainly had me fooled. All is forgiven though and he sets about reinforcing his statement on this CD. He doesn't want people to think when they listen to "MoodSwing", he wants them to feel and by Jove, he makes a good job of it. This is no smooth jazz album by any stretch of the imagination but it is accessible, while remaining intellectually and emotionally exciting. In terms of feeling, each listener will obviously take away something different from this CD. But for me, the opener, the hypnotic "Sweet Sorrow" reminds me of a visit to New Orleans some years back, way before the Katrina disaster and thus, it evokes complex emotions. "Chill" with a very interesting solo from Brad Mehldau, makes you feel like doing just that. I could go on and bore readers with the feeling/s I got from each and every tune but that probably wouldn't be wise. Suffice it to say it's a slow winding take-off; the CD only really gets going for me with "Faith" but it's a dream journey all the way to the end.

Some of the songs do remind me of other songs by other musicians - "Alone In The Morning" made me think of Stan Getz, for instance - but I'm cool with that. I don't think there's anything wrong in paying homage to musicians you admire or who may have influenced you, if indeed that is what Redman was doing here. It could all be happy coincidence. He has a dream quartet on hand here and, including himself, each of them - Brad Mehldau on piano, Christian McBride on bass and Brian Blade on drums are all virtuosos in their own right. Second to "Elastic", I think this is the best Joshua Redman CD I own and one of the best jazz CDs in my collection.

Quite good.......2006-02-26

This is a quite good 3.5 star album. Joshua Redman is of course, excellent, and he has a fine group with him - Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade. Mr. Redman wrote all the songs, yet the thing that irks me is that I can hear references to other jazz songs in them. So, the first time through the album sounded very familiar. I think if the album were a little livelier, a little less mannered, that would have pushed it into 4-star territory for me.

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Impressive Music

Moodswing
Kacy Crowley
Manufacturer: Stable Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001LYH66
Release Date: 2004-03-30

Tracks:

Everything
Kind of Perfect
Unrecovered
Ashes
Suspended
Holding in the World
Blood
Church Organ
Traffic
Humble Beginnings

Customer Reviews:

Impressive Music.......2005-07-30

This CD is a master piece of rock'n'roll and more than that.
Wonderful songs, excellent singer, great musicians,
perfect production, everything fits together.
The songs will catch you, really every song on this CD.

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Great Tunes
Excellent Debut
Slow road to nowhere
Dave Derby (The King)
melancholy pop

Even Further Behind
Dave Derby
Manufacturer: Badman Records
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ASIN: B0000A1HSM
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

Middle Class Hero
Still Bored
California Nervous Breakdown
Dream Is Over
Even Further Behind
U-Bahn Girl
Sad Northern Town
You're My Plus One
Undertow
Brooklyn
Boston
Cigarette Cowboy

Album Description

2003 solo album from The Dambuilders vocalist/bassist. Badman.

Customer Reviews:

Great Tunes.......2006-03-10

Dave Derby is a great tunesmith -- these are catchy songs, especially "California Nervous Breakdown" and "Middle Class Hero." Yes, it's a slightly melancholic world -- or at least nostalgic, as on "Boston" -- but that's a sign of being thoughtful, not morose. Derby's songwriting is more mature than during the Dambuilders era -- a sign of progress. I'm looking forward to his next CD.

Excellent Debut.......2004-10-31

Lots of good tunes and melodies; Derby's infusion with Lloyd Cole and the Negatives has had some influence on this disc...

Slow road to nowhere.......2004-09-21

Nothing particularly to recommend here. If you're looking for singer songwriters who not only can sing, but write songs that will remain with you try Freedy Johnston, Todd Thibaud, D. Henry Fenton, Patrick Park, or Bill Fox. This one had me nodding off after song 4. I suppose if you want something non-offensive, this is ok. Personally, I need a little more.

Dave Derby (The King).......2004-01-17

This album is a must have, Dave Derby is a pure drop in an ocean of noise!

melancholy pop.......2003-09-12

Former Dambuilders frontman, Dave Derby, delivers great, sad, slow to mid tempo, pop songs on this album. He really has a nice vocal quality and songs that take you to another place.

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To hell with vocals...

The Quiet Storm
Ocelot
Manufacturer: Moodswing Records
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ASIN: B000068QZD
Release Date: 2005-01-01

Tracks:

Empathy and Projection
Kentucky Waterfall
Loss Prevention Officer
Throwing Away a Perfectly Good White Boy
Is It a Drug, A Virus, Or a Religion?
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Tear You Down... (Reprise)
Tiphareth
Quiet Storm

Product Description

"Rock 'n' roll precedent poses a challenge to bands like Ocelot. Although the imaginative Atlanta quartet makes clever use of two electric guitars, they're odd men out as far as pop formulas go. You see, Ocelot are about as vocal as their spotted wildcat namesake.....What Ocelot did make room for is a small but satisfying repertoire of interlocking, mid-tempo vamps and geometric, counterpointed melodies that will speak volumes to any post-indie rock aficionado. Though variously inspired by the likes of Slint, Tortoise, Sunny Day Real Estate, Don Caballero and Shellac, Ocelot's unusually precise, complexly layered rock distillations articulate distinctive patterns that result from the band members' peculiar backgrounds." - Thomas Peake (stomp and stammer)

Customer Reviews:

To hell with vocals..........2004-11-17

This album is well worth checking out if your a fan of instrumental/math/post rock bands or just good music in general. On 'a quiet storm' Atlanta's Ocelot combine tight rhythms, driving bass lines, chiming guitar lines, cool time changes and a range of sonic innovation- all the things you've come to expect from a good instrumental album. Its not all guitars, bass and drums though, the album opens and closes with some glacial ambient sounds and also features a lovely finger picked acoustic guitar song near the end of the album sounding like pullman or one of ghosts and vodka's acoustic tracks. This album has a very cohesive feel yet it's full of dynamics and intersting musical ideas so you never get bored or start wishing there was some vocals. The art work for this cd is also cool featuring some neat paper cutting skills and a dark broody sky with some birds roosting on pylons.

Coming across like a less jazzy rumah sakit this album would be a great addition to your collection, highly recommended for fans of the mercury program, maserati, paul newman, mt. st. helens, the letter e, volta do mar, unwed sailor, gwei-lo, the cancer conspiracy etc.

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Some Soviet Station
Some Soviet Union
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ASIN: B0007O7BYW
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

Sonic Titan
Hello Dial Tone
Passing
The Process
Sitting On A Fence
A City Is Burning
Active/Dormant
Pistol Whipped
Goron City

Product Description

Track listing: 1. Sonic Titan 2. Hello Dial Tone 3. Passing 4. The Process 5. Sitting On A Fence 6. A City Is Burning 7. Active/Dormant 8. Pistol Whipped 9. Goron City

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It's A Secret To Everybody

Manufacturer: Moodswing
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ASIN: B0009O1G0U
Release Date: 2005-01-01

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John Henry By Decision
Daine Don't Dive
Darkroom Dodger
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Homestead Goldmine
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Graham Cracker Crumb
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Product Description

Atlanta heartthrobs the close sophomore cd is nine tracks of uplifting, melodic rock that definitely has indie rock influences. The close sound like a cross between the secret stars, the van pelt and superchunk. Good.

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Noon Under the Trees
The Rock*A*Teens
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ASIN: B000068R1T
Release Date: 2005-01-01

Tracks:

These Starving Heartists
To Lady Ben And All Her Friends
I Don't Eat Sweets
Inseparable
It's Too Bad Luv He's A Sad One

Product Description

The final five song release by what was a long running pop/melodic indie rock band that hailed from atlanta. Numerous earlier releases on merge. Recorded with Brian Paulson at Zero Return in Atlanta, GA.

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S/T

Manufacturer: Moodswing
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0009O1G1O
Release Date: 2005-01-01

Tracks:

Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled

Product Description

atlantas very own copa vance crank out seven tracks of in your face, blazing guitars rock and roll mayhem. Fans of rocket from the crypt, drive like jehu, hot snakes and more will be into this cd. Features ex members of some soviet station, galanas cerdd, free masonry, fiddlehead and more.

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Moodswing Woogie
Denis Farley
Manufacturer: Flat Baroque
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ASIN: B000008TSW
Release Date: 1996-09-01

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Somebody Else's Blues (Cleopatra's Needle)
Mood Swing Woogie (Freeway Crawl)
Gal Rider
Long Shadows
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The Pearl
A Wee Bit
Ghost of Bannerman's Island
Love The Years Away
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Album Description

Urban Roots in . . .Blues, Ballads, Folk, Pop, Jazz, Rock, Calypso, Country, TexMex, etc.

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No Funeral
Chocolate Kiss
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ASIN: B000KHDCWQ

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