| Leake, Jerry / Cubist: Prominence |
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| Album: | Cubist: Prominence | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Leake, Jerry | Added: | Jan 2013 | |
| Label: | Rhombus Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2014-04-25 | Pull Date: | 2014-06-27 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 22 | Jun 1 | May 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 21, 2014: | Music Casserole Free Freedom | 3. | May 03, 2014: | Music Casserole Why? | |
| 2. | May 31, 2014: | Music Casserole Sue | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2014-03-29 | ||
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Jazz/world songs in a western mold, heavy on the African influence. Polished vocals and peace-and-love lyrics are more "TV Family Special" than "college radio." Summertime grooving on the faster tracks; mellow and poppy on the slower ones. It gets cheesy in places, but it has a lot of value for mainstream shows that mix styles. I do appreciate that the melodies follow winding jazz rhythms and not simple pop/R&B, and there's a lot going on with the percussion. (I'll have to check out Leake's other stuff, which is reviewed on Zookeeper as if it were a lot more... interesting.) No FCCs detected. 1- Upbeat, showtuney. A big group-grooving piece. A little embarrassing. 2- Mellow and elegant. Some nice violin and flute in the mix. 3- Mid/fast; upbeat and mellow; a touch of hippie mysticism (in a good way) and some rock guitar (in a trite way). Triplet feel is almost Celtic. 4- Nice groove w/flute, if you can avoid thinking about Christmas bells. 5- Nifty sounding chant, lots of percussion. Message of "go to school, stay out of gangs" is in the right place but comes across limp and naive. 6- Smooth R&B w/male+female vocs. Very smooth. Avoid. 7- Jazzy in a '70s way; mellow with a bit of edge and even some prog keyboarding. Honestly good. 8- Up/mellow, a nice bubbling rhythm and melody. 9- Catchy and honestly pretty pop song, but overdramatic. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Prominence | 5. | Middle Ground | |||
| 2. | My Love | 6. | Some Days | |||
| 3. | Why? | 7. | Free Freedom | |||
| 4. | Holiday | 8. | Sue | |||
| 9. | Dear Dad | |||||