Jake Shimabukuro - Gently Weeps
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Artist: Jake ShimabukuroEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Music Label: Hitchhike Records
Soundtracks:
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Ave Maria
- Wish On My Star
- Shakura
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Let?s Dance
- Misty
- Spain
- Heartbeat/Dragon
- Blue Roses Falling
- Grandma?s Groove
- Breathe
- Angel
- Lazy Jane
- Hula Girl
- Beyond The Break
- Wish On My Star (vocal version)
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You'll forget all the Tiny Tim, Don Ho, and Hawaiian-music jokes about the ukulele when you hear Gently Weeps, which leaves behind the Roaring Twenties strum and plinky-dink sound of most such music. Jake Shimabukuro sets the tone with the lead-off track from which he takes the album's title, George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," unfolding the vulnerable undertow of Harrison's epic lament. A string of covers follows, as Shimabukuro touches the serene with Schubert's "Ave Maria," evokes a Japanese koto on a Zen-like version of "Sakura," and turns "The Star-Spangled Banner" into a lament. But Shimabukuro's original tunes are just as full of plucked nuance, especially "Heartbeat Dragon," where he uses a slight delay to create a quietly joyful Celtic air. However, don't think it's all wistful melancholy. Shimabukuro whips it out on original tracks like "Let's Dance," alternating hard rhythmic chops with flamenco-like strums. His take on Erroll Garner's "Misty" is a little jive, though I'm sure the hot jazz middle-section pumps the crowds up. Chick Corea's "Spain" fares much better and still scores high on the flash quotient. You just can't keep a fret-burner down, even when his fretboard is toy-sized. You can't keep the Hawaiian out either. Its gentle sway turns up on the sweetly laconic "Angel." A few bonus tracks of generic fusion at the end detract from the solo purity and intimate mood that Shimabukuro creates, but Gently Weeps is a joy until then. --John DilibertoInternational Music CDs
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