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| Artist: Bob Devos
Label: Savant
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 169243
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 2088
UPC: 633842208824
EAN: 0633842208824
ASIN: B000VKL0OY
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | And So It Goes - Bob DeVos, DeVos, Bob | | • | Naima - Bob DeVos, Coltrane, J. | | • | Pause for Fred's Claws - Bob DeVos, DeVos, Bob | | • | So in Love - Bob DeVos, Porter, C. | | • | Body and Soul - Bob DeVos, Green J. | | • | Blues on the Corner - Bob DeVos, Tyner, M. | | • | Speech Without Words - Bob DeVos, DeVos, Bob | | • | Freedom Jazz Dance - Bob DeVos, Harris, E. | | • | Ask Me Now - Bob DeVos, Monk, T. | | • | Wes Is More - Bob DeVos, DeVos, Bob |
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| Customer Reviews:
shifting gears May 21, 2008
Paul Divito (salem,ma,usa.)
a wonderful recording,guitarist,bob devos,is definately been overlooked for quite sometime.and he should be among the upper echelon,of jazz guitarists.eric alexander,shines beautifully throughout this set,as bob devos,pours out some tasty,and melodic lines.it's obvious,that he knows his way around the fretboard,and has a great chord vocabulary.this is a must have for any fan of great jazz guitar,highly recomended.
A Terrific Jazz and Organ Jazz CD--great arrangements and playing all around, jazz album December 2, 2007
Jazz Cat (Miami, FL, United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Two Thumbs Way Up for this superlative CD! All the musicians are terrific and play great as a unit. Each of the wideranging tracks stands strong on its own, taken together the tracks show the breadth of guitarist DeVos's compositional and arranging skills--boy is he one hip musician. There is a great blues vibe throughout as to be expected from DeVos, who has played with all the organ greats but the band takes on & scores big on modern jazz tunes you don't hear from most organ groups like an incredibly cool "Freedom Jazz Dance" and McCoy Tyner's "Blues On the Corner" and Coltane's "Naima." DeVos's originals have a great groove, especially on "Pause for Fred's Claws" and the uptempo opener, "And So It Goes." After a few listens, you hear how much more tone DeVos gets out of the guitar than most anyone, and his impeccable technique. This one is for everyone--guitarists, jazz fans of many stripes. And listen to it from start to finish, DeVos has clearly given a lot of thought to how the tunes work with one another to create an overall experience as good as hearing any favorite classic jazz album.
Extremely Hip! A Triumph!! November 4, 2007
A Jazz Fan
I was eagerly awaiting DeVos' next CD after "Shifting Sands", his Top Ten Jazz CD of 2006 that was high on Jazz Week's Jazz Charts for a great 7 month run. WOW! "Playing For Keeps" is really well-named--This is a take-no-prisoners triumph for Bob and his regular organ trio and long-time musical collaborator, tenor sax great Eric Alexander. Listen for how their sounds blend. DeVos has a flowing horn-like sound on guitar and he writes for himself and Alexander so that the timbres of the instruments blend, as in the opening original, "And So It Goes." This band is really tight and scorching--top musicians playing at the top of their game on DeVos' originals and arrangements. DeVos is brilliant--his sound is rich and gorgeous with his authentic, great blues feel, profound ryhthm and swing and well, he is one of the real guitar greats with his own style. I listened to the CD four times right in a row; terrifically paced, drawing deep from the bebop and beyond tradition--Miles, Trane, a McCoy Tyner track-- without losing the blues and soul of the jazz-organ tradition. Great uptempo originals and standards are followed by the infectious original "Pause for Fred's Claws" in a "Green Onion" mode--very cool-- to a 3/4 reexamination of "Body & Soul" and the haunting original, "Speech Without Words." But when I got to Bob's arrangement and his, Eric's and organist Dan Kostelnik's solos on "Freedom Jazz Dance," I was completely stopped in my tracks...phew! Followed on Bob's making Monk's "Ask Me Now" feel like a stroll in a park and then Bob's very hip tribute to Wes Montgomery in "Wes Is More." I caught Bob at a Wes Montgomery Tribute earlier this year and this CD confirms what I thought then--DeVos is a complete original and the guitarist now who wears Montgomery's mantle. Don't miss this one!
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