If smooth jazz is not your thing, then this one is not for
you. End of story. Don’t argue with me. I don’t want to hear it. This is the rating. This is as good as it gets for the smooth
jazz genre. This belongs right next to
Kenny G, a musician who has been tremendously popular, so far as jazz is
concerned. It is very likely that if you
have heard of Kenny G, then you may or may not have heard of Earl Klugh. Earl Klugh never achieved the popularity of
Kenny G, and by many people’s standards Kenny G is fairly obscure. I rate Earl Klugh higher than someone like
Kenny G because he is obscure. I root
for the underdog even though this is genre is not my particular taste.
Most jazz musicians will admit that they didn’t get in to
music to play on their instruments in that way that they could just totally
fall into the background at a party, and nobody would really notice the
musicians there, but that the party goes on as the ladies sip Zinfandel, Riesling, or some other dessert wine, while cracking into some lobsters and
getting a tan in the evening sun at an expensive restaurant or beach house. That is the niche of the Earl Klugh
band. Primarily, that is what this disc
consists of; music that is semi-sophisticated background music.
I am pretty sure that this is the only smooth jazz cd in my
collection. I purchased it because I
wanted to know what Earl Klugh sounded like as I am a guitarist, and I play and
listen to jazz. I’ll take a chance on
most any artist. In my opinion, though I
don’t think all jazz is good, I do believe some of it is better than
others. This just happens accomplish its
goal. It mixed in well with my 100 disc
changer for the time that I had it in the mix, but now it is time to move on.
While I won’t say this cd lacks chops at all, he is not playing
as fast as Yngwie Malmsteen and for some people that is a good thing and for
others it is not. I would venture to say
that most folk would think that this is a good thing. However, I just think that it is a thing, and
that it is what it is, nothing more, and nothing less.
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