Artist: Bireli Lagrene
Album: Acoustic Moments
Genre: Gypsy Jazz
Label: Blue Note
Released: 1991
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Made in France (Lagrene) - 3:23
- Rhythm Thing (Lagrene) - 3:36
- Claire Marie (Juris) - 4:48
- All the Things You Are (Kern-Hammerstein) - 5:40
- Three Views of a Secret (Pastorius) - 6:17
- Impressions (Coltrane) - 4:48
- Stretch (Lagrene) - 4:35
- Acoustic Moments (Lagrene) - 3:15
- Bass Ballad (Koono) - 5:51
- Metal Earthquake (Lagrene) - 1:48
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- Personnel:
- Bireli Lagrene - guitar, bass
- Michel Camilo - piano (#3)
- Koono - keyboards, piano, synthesizer programming
- Loic Pontieux - drums
- Simon Pomara - percussion
Bireli Lagrene, a guitarist who first came up as a remarkable Django Reinhardt clone before getting interested in rock, switches back and forth throughout this CD. He plays some songs acoustically in a classical vein, swings a bit on a couple of standards and then finishes the set with a brief blowout on "Metal Earthquake." Most of the so-called acoustic pieces have electric keyboards and/or synthesizers provided by Koono (there is no actual bass on this set) and one gets the impression that at this point in his career Bireli Lagrene was unsure what direction to go in. The results are interesting but sometimes almost incoherent.
Review by Scott Yanow