Side One | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jim Duffy
Label: Three Dots
Category: Music
List Price: $12.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 596241
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 616892614821
EAN: 0616892614821
ASIN: B0009KUWWC
Release Date: May 1, 2005
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Condition: sealed mint condition cd and complete artwork, IN STOCK RIGHT NOW
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| Tracks:
| • | Knowing What You Want | | • | Get Up for Ray | | • | Mother of Pearl | | • | The Crawler | | • | Broken Field | | • | Gentle Panic | | • | For Those Who Are Leaving | | • | Your White Raincoat | | • | A.M. Fun City | | • | Sob Story | | • | Morning Rays |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Jim Duffy, a Brooklyn-based keyboardist, presents a set of sparkling, original instrumental tunes. The concept was to scan the past 50 years of American pop music and do an original take on it, using some of New York s hardest-rocking musicians. Dennis Diken of the Smithereens plays drums on every track. Bassist Paul Page and Guitarist Lance Doss, both from John Cale's band, fill out the basic lineup. Jim Duffy leads with piano or an early-'60s Wurlitzer electric piano. "Side One" is Duffy's first solo album. All the sounds were recorded in vintage analog stereo, for a warm texture that harkens back to the halcyon days of Burt Bacharach. The opening track, "Knowing What You Want," reaches for those heights with string passages by members of the Flux String Quartet, culminating in a soaring flugelhorn melody from Mac Gollehon. "Get Up for Ray," Duffy's take on a Ray Charles-type groove, rocks from side to side with a raucous saxophone arrangement. "Broken Field" harkens back to the dramatic soundtracks of NFL highlight films. If you listen closely to the creepy "Gentle Panic," you'll hear a musical saw. In the moody "Your White Raincoat," if you start flashing back to "Midnight Cowboy," well, who's to blame you? In the closing track, the flag-waving "Morning Rays," the band revs up a Booker T groove, then Gollehon lets it rip with a flying trumpet solo that brings it home in style. The overall effect is bracing and unpredictable. Jim Duffy's "Side One" is suitable for parties of all sizes.
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| Customer Reviews:
run don't walk June 25, 2005
David Kozatch (New Yawk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If there is a place for instrumental pop music that isn't soulless and robotic or sugery sweet then this be it. This disk is teeming with life - real musicians grooving to the real thing. If you dig Medeski, Martin and Wood or the Mancini covers done by the Oranj Symphonette (and if you haven't yet, check them out too) you don't have to go back to the mono days of Bacharach, et. al to appreciate these guys. The analog stereo creates a nice smooth feel you won't find on most contemporary jazz records. And, God love the rhythm section -- Diken and friends propel these tunes into that little cranny in the back of your brain, landing directly on that musical G-spot. Go ahead, enjoy.
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