Steele, Skye Quintet / Late Bloomer
Album: Late Bloomer   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Steele, Skye Quintet   Added:Jul 2009
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-08-30 Pull Date: 2009-11-01 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Nov 1 Oct 18 Oct 11 Oct 4 Sep 27 Sep 6
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 30, 2018: Traditions
Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
4. Oct 07, 2009: ... Over the Hump
Pepperoni Pizza
2. Oct 29, 2009: IBS or Cron's?
Rubber Ducky
5. Oct 03, 2009: Music Rollercoaster
Scarborough Fair
3. Oct 17, 2009: Music Rollercoaster
Monkey-See
6. Oct 02, 2009: No Cover, No Minimum
Pepperoni Pizza

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2009-08-31
mellow improvisational Jazz violin, a hint of a World sound, First CD, Brooklyn based. Definetly a cool unigue sound.
1: 6:21 a Turkish clarinet, drum, guitar dirge intro then violin takes over on a cover of " Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair"
****2: 4:33 fast upbeat violin, drum kit, percussion & bass. Very cool violin & tune
3: 8:49 tabla, Turkish clarinet, violin noodling, slower towards end with minimal vocals
***4: 2:25 violin noodling solo Go right into #5
5: 5:40 mid to faster, violin, bass, drum kit, clarinet
6: 5:31 mid to faster, guitar, bass, drum kit jam, great violin, bass, drum kit jam, cool percussion jam & faster towards end.
***7: 4:56 fast violin & Turkish clarinet, sort of Klezmer sound, very cool sound.
8: 6:12 slow, mellow straight ahead Jazz tune
****9: 5:29 very good alto sax/drum kit jam cover of "Scarborough Fair", mid to fast
***10: 1:48 haunting violin cover of "My Funny Valentine"
11: 5:31 mid to fast, violin, guitar, clarinet, bass & drum kit jam, mellow tune but soaring violin
12: 6:28 male vocal intro then nice jam, sax, guitar, wailing sax jam, then mellow at end.
13: 4:01 slow sultry sax with mild instrument chaos/noodling.
14: 3:12 rock rhythm section intro then rock violin, guitar, sax & bass. 2:54 end of music then 15 seconds talking band members. D  Farrell 08/2009


Track Listing
1. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair   8. Freedom Impressionism
2. Monkey-See   9. Scarborough Fair
3. Evelynn   10. My Funny Valentine
4. Shine   11. Years Later
5. Echo Park   12. I Don't Want To Live On The Moon
6. Pepperoni Pizza   13. The Fall
7. Rubber Ducky   14. Pretty Pretty Girls