Curb's Greatest Hits is a budget-line collection that contains Ferrante & Teicher's greatest hits, including "Theme [from The Apartment]," "Exodus," "Tonight," "Lisa," and "Midnight Cowboy," as well as five other tracks. It's a brief collection, but it gives a good sense of what the easy listening group was all about. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ...
This progressive jazz supergroup had previously contributed tracks to three high-profile holiday jazz recordings (including a GRP collection and Take 6's He Is Christmas), but never took the full plunge into the stocking stuffer realm until now. There's definitely a sense of spunk and spontaneity as the quartet does its first and second takes, but ...
The Yellowjackets' first release for GRP, Greenhouse, is a real gas. The disc starts innocently enough with "Freedomland," the kind of smart smooth jazz song that marked The Spin. It's on the following "Greenhouse" that listeners glimpse a change in the air: Strings (!) set the stage for dreamy, exotic jazz that melts in your mind, music that goes ...
Although The Collection implies an anthology that might be a best of, or at least cover a wide period of time, it's actually recordings of twin piano solos done in 1983. This includes versions of some of the numbers Ferrante & Teicher had hits with in the early 1960s, like "Exodus" and "Theme from "The Apartment"," and plenty of Broadway themes, ...
Christmas Cocktails, Vol. 2 is an entertaining but unspectacular collection of classic carols performed in a lounge fashion. For connoisseurs of kitsch, it's an entertaining disc, but other listeners might find the camp a little too much to take. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
A nearly complete departure from smooth jazz, Politics is arguably the Yellowjackets' strongest effort to date. True, there is the pure pop of the single "Local Hero" (which features a rhythm section more rock than jazz) and the accessible "Evening Dance" to be considered, but they're the exceptions rather than the rule. Like Four Corners before ...
This live set by the Yellowjackets (taped at the Roxy in Hollywood) has plenty of solo space for Bob Mintzer (on tenor, soprano, bass clarinet and EWI) and keyboardist Russell Ferrante (who takes a particularly colorful spot on "Homecoming") along with fine backup work by bassist Jimmy Haslip, drummer William Kennedy and percussionist Paulinho Da ...
Other than the easy-listening pieces that appear near the beginning of the program, this is one of The Yellowjackets' strongest jazz dates. Bob Mintzer's creative reeds (switching between tenor, bass clarinet, soprano and the EWI) keep the music stimulating and keyboardist Russell Ferrante has come a long way as both an improviser (where he is ...
Taking on the first two years of the decade, Super Hits of the '70s, Vol. 16 revels in that sound of rock played by a TV studio orchestra, with brass and fuzz guitar a-dueling and rock opera bombast getting a good neutering: While Ides of March's "Vehicle" heeds the call of the former to Blood, Sweat & Tears proportions, the Assembled Multitude's ...
The Yellowjackets began their recording career on the Warner Brothers label in 1981, recording three albums before moving to GRP where the band found commercial success during a ten-year stay. In 1995, they returned to the Warner fold to produce some of their best, maturest music. Dreamland, Blue Hats, and Club Nocturne found the band presenting ...
All-Time Great Instrumental Hits, Vol. 1 is a budget-priced, 12-track collection of easy listening hits from the '50s and '60s by Les Baxter ("Unchained Melody," "The Poor People of Paris"), Nelson Riddle ("Lisbon Antigua"), Ferrante & Teicher ("Exodus"), Ray Anthony ("Dragnet," "Up a Lazy River," "Peter Gunn"), Les Paul ("Whispering"), Don Costa ...
The Yellowjackets made a splash with their first record, an accessible mixture of jazz, rock, and funk bearing the unmistakable mark of the L.A. session scene that spawned them. In fact, the Yellowjackets had their roots in the sessions for Robben Ford's 1979 album, The Inside Story. Russell Ferrante, Jimmy Haslip, and Ricky Lawson all appeared on ...
The first installment of Rhino's three-disc easy listening/lounge series Cocktail Mix is called The Bachelor's Guide to the Galaxy and is the best of the set, featuring a collection of kitschy and entertaining instrumental tracks from the likes of Ferrante & Teicher, Lenny Dee, and the Three Suns. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
The Yellowjackets were a fixture on the GRP label for a decade, and this CD is a sampling of some of their work from the period. During that era, in addition to keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer William Kennedy, the Yellowjackets were joined by the reeds of Bob Mintzer (who is heard here playing tenor, bass ...
The most adventurous quartet in contemporary jazz has met its visual match in Peter Max, the legendary pop artist who, as it turns out, is a huge fan of the band. Russell Ferrante and company could probably feel at home naming any of their innovative, loose-spirited albums after one of Max's paintings, but Altered State definitely fits the vibe ...
Following on the heels of their Grammy-nominated Mint Jam, their self-released 2001 "live" recording, the Yellowjackets continue to blaze an enjoyable musical trail that pulsates with their energy and signature sound that few will fail to recognize and many have come to love over the past 30 years. With Time Squared, the group's first studio ...
15 Christmas Favorites is an entertaining collection of traditional pop, adult contemporary and easy listening interpretations of classic and contemporary Christmas carols. Although there are a couple of instrumental tracks by Guy Lombardo and Ferrante & Teicher on the collection, almost all of the disc is devoted to vocal performances. There are ...
All-Time Favorite Hits is a mid-priced collection that spotlights many of Ferrante & Teicher's easy listening renditions of popular songs and movie themes of the '60s and '70s. Originally recorded for Columbia Records, these ten tracks include "Midnight Cowboy," "Lay Lady Lay," "A Man and a Woman," and "Exodus." Although it's far from a perfect ...
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