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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 29 November 2009 CE
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IanB
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Edited Nov 30, 2009, 15:25
Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 29 November 2009 CE
Nov 30, 2009, 15:24
It's less modal/groovy/trance oriented and much less 60s sounding than "Journey" and even more led by the sax as a main instrument and there is much more piano and Wurlitzer organ than harp.

So it sounds more like a traditional post Coltrane modern jazz record (there's even a ballad with strings) than her earlier records as a leader.

I guess it would have been more accurate if it were credited to Alice and her sons as a family. Not that I am complaining at all.

It's pretty great for all that and there are a couple of tracks that are still firmly in the 60s AC style. The piano playing is peerless in terms of the jazz records being made today that I get to hear.

It's not impossible to imagine that this is the sort of record Coltrane himself would have been making were he alive. Safe to think that he probably wouldn't have been making Dub Step records, jamming with Govt Mule or (shudder) making crossover albums ....
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