| Sands, Christian / Facing Dragons |
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| Album: | Facing Dragons | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Sands, Christian | Added: | Oct 2018 | |
| Label: | Mack Avenue | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-11-04 | Pull Date: | 2019-01-06 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Jan 6 | Dec 23 | Dec 16 | Dec 2 | Nov 18 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 08, 2021: | Clean Copper Radio for Fo (rebroadcast from Jan 3, 2019) Flight For Freedom, Rebel Music | 4. | Jan 04, 2019: | Old Fart At Play Sangueo Soul | |
| 2. | Jan 08, 2019: | Clean Copper Radio Her Song, Yesterday, Sunday Mornings | 5. | Jan 03, 2019: | Clean Copper Radio for Thursday's Child Sangueo Soul, Sunday Mornings | |
| 3. | Jan 05, 2019: | Music Casserole Sangueo Soul, Sunday Mornings | 6. | Jan 03, 2019: | Clean Copper Radio for Fo Flight For Freedom, Rebel Music |
| Album Review |
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| Tom McCarter Reviewed 2018-10-28 | ||
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Reviewed: 2018-10-28 Genre: Jazz FCCs: none Review: Sands plays beautifully in a variety of styles. He honors and knows his predecessor masters, and yet he is very contemporary. He can build a solo with drama, and he writes well. He utilizes different musicians and combinations on every track. If You Like: Oscar Peterson, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Connors Track Review (favorites denoted by *): *1/ Rebel Music (6:11) – piano starts> uptempo piano trio jam> piano solo> uptempo jam> crescendo end *2/ Fight For freedom (7:17) - piano starts> full band uptempo jam> shifting tempos & melodies> piano solo> trumpet solo> midtempo jam> pause> uptempo jam> quick stop *3/ Yesterday (7:22) – piano starts> piano trio slow hesitating jam> bass solo swings uptempo> piano solo slows then swings back up> uptempo jam> slow fade **4/ Sangueo Soul (8:26) - drums start> uptempo jam> piano solo> uptempo jam> quick stop 5/ Sunday Morning (7:29) – guitar & chorus starts> hesitating slow jam morphs into uptempo spiritual> crescendo end *6/ Frankenstein (8:43) – piano starts> slow & plodding swings to uptempo then slows to midtempo> fade 7/ Her Song (7:11) – guitar starts> slow jam swings uptempo> pause> slow jam to fade *8/ Samba De Vela (5:40) – guitar starts> slow jam builds to midtempo, then shifts back and forth> uptempo jam> guitar solo> uptempo jam> quick fade 9/ Rhodes To Meditation (4:01) -Rhodes soft & silent to fade | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Rebel Music | 5. | Sunday Mornings | |||
| 2. | Flight For Freedom | 6. | Frankenstein | |||
| 3. | Yesterday | 7. | Her Song | |||
| 4. | Sangueo Soul | 8. | Samba De Vela | |||
| 9. | Rhodes To Meditation | |||||