White Rabbit
Jazz
| Aug 2016
Reviews
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2016-08-19
Reviewed 2016-08-19
Benson, George/ White Rabbit
Label: CTI
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2016-08-19
Tom McCarter
Benson, George
White Rabbit
Genre: Jazz
This album is a tour de force of great playing all around!Check out the great band line-up. Benson plays his ass off and the rest of the band cooks! And Don Sebesky brilliantly conducts the orchestra so that it interweaves with the band and provides punctuation so that it is an integral part of the jams. This is almost entirely instrumental and recorded before Benson became famous and a fixture on the light jazz circuit.
FCCs: none
If You Like: Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain”, Paco de Lucia
Favorite Tracks: White Rabbit, Little Train, California Dreamin’
Track Review:
1/ strong crescendo start, brilliant reinterpretation of the Airplane hit,
tempos slide back & forth 2/ slow tempo 3/ fast tempo 4/ slow tempo start> builds, fades, and builds to a climax, kind of like a bolero 5/ slow
tempo start> builds to midtempo and slows again throughout, sort of a soft bolero
Label: CTI
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2016-08-19
Tom McCarter
Benson, George
White Rabbit
Genre: Jazz
This album is a tour de force of great playing all around!Check out the great band line-up. Benson plays his ass off and the rest of the band cooks! And Don Sebesky brilliantly conducts the orchestra so that it interweaves with the band and provides punctuation so that it is an integral part of the jams. This is almost entirely instrumental and recorded before Benson became famous and a fixture on the light jazz circuit.
FCCs: none
If You Like: Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain”, Paco de Lucia
Favorite Tracks: White Rabbit, Little Train, California Dreamin’
Track Review:
1/ strong crescendo start, brilliant reinterpretation of the Airplane hit,
tempos slide back & forth 2/ slow tempo 3/ fast tempo 4/ slow tempo start> builds, fades, and builds to a climax, kind of like a bolero 5/ slow
tempo start> builds to midtempo and slows again throughout, sort of a soft bolero
Recent airplay
El Mar
Soul, Samples & Substitutions — Dec 08, 2019
El Mar
Clean Copper Radio — Jan 08, 2019
Little Train
Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics — Nov 07, 2018
California Dreamin'
Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics — Sep 27, 2018
White Rabbit
Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics — Sep 25, 2018
California Dreamin'
Old fart at Play — Jun 22, 2018
Charting
2016-08-21 — 2016-10-23
Jazz
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Aug 28 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | White Rabbit | ||
| 2. | Theme From "Summer Of '42" | ||
| 3. | Little Train | ||
| 4. | California Dreamin' | ||
| 5. | El Mar |