Artist: Gerald Veasley
Album: On the Fast Track
Genre: Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Label: Heads Up
Released: 2001
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Waiting to Board (Veasley) - 0:22
- On the Fast Track (Veasley) - 3:55
- Do I Do (Wonder) - 4:46
- Next Stop Soulville (Veasley) - 4:30
- The In Crowd (Page) - 3:45
- Kickin' 22 Express (Farr-Waller) - 4:10
- Heaven to Earth (Veasley) - 5:21
- You Asked for It (Veasley) - 4:19
- Sweet Rain (Veasley) - 4:28
- Deep Blue Samba (Veasley) - 4:52
- I Desire (Baldwin-Brock) - 3:53
- Under the Cape Town Sun (Veasley) - 4:15
- Good Night Moon (Bowland-Veasley) - 3:59
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- Personnel:
- Gerald Veasley - guitar, keyboards, 6-string bass, drum programming
- Randy Bowland - guitar
- Christopher Farr - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Matt Cappy - trumpet
- Jeff Bradshaw - trombone
- John Swana - flugelhorn
- Donald Robinson - piano, Fender Rhodes piano
- Will Brock - piano
- Mark Knox - keyboards
- Tony Miceli - vibes
- Harry "Butch" Reed, Ted Thomas - drums
- Richard Waller III - shaker, drum programming
- Pablo Batista - congas, percussion
For his fifth album as a leader (not counting the many he recorded as part of the Joe Zawinul Syndicate and as a member of Grover Washington, Jr.'s backing band), six-string bassist Gerald Veasley pushes the smooth jazz envelope a bit. Those who like their grooves gentle and their textures lush will still find plenty to like here -- the rich strings on his cover of Stevie Wonder's "Do I Do," for instance, or the sweet and lovely "Goodnight Moon," written in honor of Washington. But there's a certain toughness at the center of the music this time out, and a greater willingness to let loose. The massed horns of "Kickin' 22 Express," the driving mid-tempo funk of his arrangement of the Ramsey Lewis classic "The In Crowd," the snaky and virtuosic unison lines on "You Asked for It" -- all of these point to someone who is not ultimately satisfied with just creating pleasantly swinging background music. More power to him.
Review by Rick Anderson