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Label:
   Venus Records - http://www.venusrecord.com/
Serial:
   VHGD-21
Title:
   Eric Alexander Quartet: Gentle Ballads V
Description:
   Eric Alexander, tenor sax
George Cables, piano
Nat Reeves, bass
Joe Farnswarth, drums
Track listing:
   1. The thrill is gone
2. Tenderly
3. My one and only love
4. From this moment on
5. The shadow of your smile
6. Nature boy
7. Body and soul
8. Violets for your furs
9. Dear old Stockholm
10. The summer knows
Genre:
   Jazz
Content:
   Stereo
Media:
   Single Layer
Recording type:
  
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Reviews: 1
Review by Astral August 30, 2014 (2 of 3 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:
The Gentle Ballads series follows the usual Venus pattern. A solid player of the day, Eric Alexander, agreeing to play a straight ahead set in a conservative, MOR way, very un-representative of the music he usually makes. Musically, this is solid if inessential, but is completely ruined by the Venus Hyper-Magnum Sound which is a synonym for highly compressed, loud sonics which destroy all nuance and subtlety in the music.

Maybe one day Venus will release the uncompressed 24/96 masters. Until then, if you must have the music, buy the CD and listen to it only in your car. Or - smarter move - buy one of Alexander's High Note CDs and get both better sound and more interesting music.

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