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Inspiration | 
| Artist: Lynne Arriale
Label: Tcb
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 147737
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 725095221023
EAN: 0725095221023
ASIN: B00005Y0LU
Release Date: February 25, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | America (Leonard Bernstein) | | • | It Don't Mean A Thing (Duke Ellington) | | • | Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney) | | • | A House Is Not A Home (Burt Bacharach) | | • | Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk) | | • | So Tender (Keith Jarrett) | | • | Tones For Joan's Bones (Chick Corea) | | • | Feeling Good (Leslie Bricusse) | | • | The Nearness Of Uou (Washington/Carmichael) | | • | Mountain Of The Night (Ibrahim) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Recorded in August 2000, Inspiration is a CD that fully lives up to its title, confirming Lynne Arriale as a high-class pianist. Accompanied by Jay Anderson on bass and drummer Steve Davis, she endows a wide-ranging programme with tasteful freshness and supple élan; all the arrangements are hers, and they are as impressive as her playing. Notable instances include the opening "America" from Bernstein's West Side Story; a very clever treatment of Ellington's "It Don't Mean a Thing"; lovely readings of Bacharach's "A House is Not a Home" and Keith Jarrett's "So Tender". Equally stirring are the two longish (7-plus minutes) pieces that close the set--"The Nearness of You" and Abdullah Ibrahim's "Mountain of the Night". The trio meshes expertly and Anderson and Davis get plenty of space to display their considerable skills. This invigorating CD is highly recommended. --Richard Palmer
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| Customer Reviews:
Lyrical player at her best March 20, 2002
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Guardian said in its recent review of this CD that this was not Lynne Arriale at her best: while she sounded exalted on half the disc, she sounded inhibited on the other. Half right. I would say that she sounds exalted on pretty well all of this lovely recording. The CD - which hommage to some of Arriale's favourite modern composers - includes pieces by Leornard Bernstein, Burt Bacharach, Lennon and McCartney, Monk, Jarrett, Corea and Abdullah Ibrahim. Yet the greatest tribute she pays to these is the way she sets out to rethink their work. Arriale's arrangements are fine and her soloing is excellent, providing, for instance, a calypso lilt to Bernstein's 'America' and a sublimely lyrical meditation on Lennon and McCartney's 'Blackbird'. Arriale is one of the most interesting jazz pianists to have emerged recently, a melodic player of real stature who can twist and turn a melody inside out and yet also break away to create melodies all her own. Excellent support is provided by Steve Davis on drums and Jay Anderson on bass. The Arriale trio is clearly a tight-knit unit in which the players respond to each other bother intuitively and subtly. My only complaint is that some of the tracks on the CD were too short. For me this is one disc which really leaves the listener wanting more.
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