Mark Isham - Blue Sun
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Artist: Mark IshamEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-10-03
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Barcelona
- That Beautiful Sadness
- Trapeze
- Lazy Afternoon
- Blue Sun
- In More Than Love
- And Miles To Go... Before He Sleeps
- In A Sentimental Mood
- Tour De Chance
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Free Music Review: Blue Sun by Mark Isham
Hit: 5 Stars
Very listenable jazz takes, on all titles. A super-strong suggestion of Miles Davis on much of the work, and sometimes it's hard to tell Isham from Davis, not that you want to. Despite the takeoff on Miles, Isham gets his own licks in, notably with his original compositions. The quality of
Isham's playing is close to that of Davis and his search for the ultimate tone. For any fan of horn playing, this album is a must.
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By the mid-'90s, trumpeter Mark Isham didn't need to make another solo album. After all, his artistic reputation--and financial security--had already been assured by his work as a film and television composer. He had won Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy nominations for his scores, as well as ongoing critical." Somehow, though, it wasn't enough--he "wanted a vehicle where I could realize my own artistic vision." That vehicle is Blue Sun, Isham's first solo album in four years and the first straight-ahead, acoustic jazz album of his career. He recorded it with the jazz quintet he has led in Los Angeles in recent years (pianist David Goldblatt, saxophonist Steve Tavaglione, bassist Doug Lunn and drummer Kurt Wortman) and that's the band he brings to this project, which mirrors his lifelong admiration for Miles Davis. Isham's Blue Sun does have the understated romanticism of "Kind of Blue," especially in the leader's muted-trumpet smears and in pianist David Goldblatt's space-filled broken chords. The most obvious tribute comes on "And Miles to Go... Before He Sleeps," a ballad tribute to Davis featuring Isham's languid trumpet lines. --Geoffrey HimesJazz Music CDs
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