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Kyle Eastwood: Paris Blue
On the original "Marrakech," Michael Stevens' keyboards and programming create an exotic Middle Eastern flavor that melds perfectly with the serpentine soprano sax and mourning duduk. "Solferino" creates a mood of haunting moonlight sonatas, featuring the dark and forboding tenor saxophone of Doug Webb. A Freddie Hubbard-like Jim Rotondi spits out bullets over a CTI-era keyboard backdrop on "Cosmo." Eastwood even digs up the Swing Era classic "Big Noise" with whistles and all, grooving it with a heavy beat that is a perfect counterbalance to the bop solos by Webb and trumpeter Lee Thornberg.
Paris Blue has something for everyone: creativity, deep grooves and excellent lead solos. Something new is rising from Eastwood.
Track Listing
Big Noise; Marrakech; Muse; Le Pont Royal; Solferino; Cosmo; Paris Blue.
Personnel
Kyle Eastwood
bassKyle Eastwood: bass; Vinnie Colaiuta, Kendall Kay: drums; Jim Rotondi, Lee Thornberg: trumpet; Michael Stevens: keyboards; Alan Pasqua, John Beasley: piano.
Album information
Title: Paris Blue | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Rendezvous
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