Carrington, Terri Lyne / Jazz Is a Spirit
| Album: | Jazz Is a Spirit | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Carrington, Terri Lyne | Added: | Dec 2002 | |
| Label: | Act Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2003-01-20 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-24 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 23 | Feb 9 | Feb 2 | Jan 26 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 06, 2017: | National Treasure
Giggles |
4. | Feb 04, 2003: | No Cover, No Minimum
Journey of Now |
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| 2. | Feb 21, 2003: | Baseball Rainout
Little Jump |
5. | Jan 31, 2003: | Memory Select
Lost Star |
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| 3. | Feb 08, 2003: | Morning Glory
Journey of Now |
6. | Jan 28, 2003: | No Cover, No Minimum
Giggles |
Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-01-19
Reviewed 2003-01-19
Mainstream contemporary jazz led by Carrington, a woman drummer. Lots of prominent guest stars: Herbie Hancock (2,5,10), Wallace Roney (2,14), Kevin Eubanks, etc.
Sometimes it gets a bit slick/cheesy, especially in Carrington's compositions, but this has a nice adventurous feel overall, with great loose soloing by Gary Thomas (sax) and Greg Kurstin (piano). Accessible and mind-opening, and well worth a try.
2*- Stumbly theme; nice wandering trumpet-sax double solo
3*- Slower and expansive
4* Midtempo
5- Soft
6,7- Heart-pounding drum solo, then an unfortunate new-agey blip
8- Insistant hand drums for that "world" sound. Nice trumpet solo
9*- Bouncy theme, some wild piano & sax playing
10- Mellow midtempo
11- Quiet, floaty
12- Scattery, with wah-wah guitar
13- Weird: Drum solo over dialogue snippets
1,14 - The oddball tracks: Slow, oozy funk. Pretty good, but they could lose the spoken word (by Malcolm Jamal-Warner, of Cosby Show fame)
Sometimes it gets a bit slick/cheesy, especially in Carrington's compositions, but this has a nice adventurous feel overall, with great loose soloing by Gary Thomas (sax) and Greg Kurstin (piano). Accessible and mind-opening, and well worth a try.
2*- Stumbly theme; nice wandering trumpet-sax double solo
3*- Slower and expansive
4* Midtempo
5- Soft
6,7- Heart-pounding drum solo, then an unfortunate new-agey blip
8- Insistant hand drums for that "world" sound. Nice trumpet solo
9*- Bouncy theme, some wild piano & sax playing
10- Mellow midtempo
11- Quiet, floaty
12- Scattery, with wah-wah guitar
13- Weird: Drum solo over dialogue snippets
1,14 - The oddball tracks: Slow, oozy funk. Pretty good, but they could lose the spoken word (by Malcolm Jamal-Warner, of Cosby Show fame)
Track Listing
| 1. | Jazz Is | 8. | Journey of Now | |||
| 2. | Little Jump | 9. | Giggles | |||
| 3. | The Corner | 10. | Middle Way | |||
| 4. | Lost Star | 11. | Princess | |||
| 5. | Samsara | 12. | Witch Hunt | |||
| 6. | Journey Agent | 13. | Mr. Jo Jones | |||
| 7. | Journey East From West | 14. | Jazz Is a Spirit |