Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 1997
Track listing: Down Home Blues; J & G Blues; Soft Winds; Time After Time; Blues For Big Foot; Smack Dab In The Middle; You Don't Know What Love Is; Stormy Monday; Cayenne Blues.

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Gene Harris and Brother Jack McDuff: Down Home Blues

Read "Down Home Blues" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1997

When Niki Harris sings about how much she loves it “when Daddy plays those down home blues," she knows what she's talking about. The Daddy in her case is none other than Gene Harris, the 64-year-old blues pianist. Gene features his little girl (a long-tenured backup singer for Madonna as well as Anita Baker and Quincy ...

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Chick Corea and Gary Burton: Native Sense-The New Duets

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1997

Pianist Chick Corea and Gary Burton (vibes and marimba) have put together a new disc of duets, Native Sense, and it can be summed up in one word: lovely. This is the fifth duet recording from these two; their interaction shows the ease and comfort of a long association, even though the last release was twelve ...

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Carol Sloane and Clark Terry: The Songs Ella and Louis Sang

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1997

Carol Sloane and Clark Terry! Can they still cut it? Oh yes. In the liner notes for The Songs Ella & Louis Sang, George Simon says, “After listening to these, Carol's latest recorded sounds, I realize once more how musically and sensitively and clearly she sings -- even better than before-if that's possible! Clark Terry is ...

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Stan Getz: Soul Eyes

Read "Soul Eyes" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
December 1, 1997

“Soul Eyes" is a companion piece to a CD released last year on Concord entitled “Yours and Mine". Recorded at the Glasgow Jazz Festival in 1989, it's a welcome addition to an impressive batch of albums that have been issued since Stan's death in 1991. Joining Stan on the bandstand are Ben Riley (drums), Ray Drummond ...