Artist: Dotsero
Album: Off the Beaten Path
Genre: Fusion, Smooth Jazz
Label: Nova Records
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Jeepers Creepers (Friedman) - 5:02
- Private Thompson (Watts) - 5:37
- After Hours (Friedman) - 5:56
- The Jazzmanian Folk Dance (Watts) - 6:26
- Pacific Balcony (Watts) - 5:48
- In Mysterious Ways (Watts) - 6:06
- Monger Gang (Watts) - 5:09
- Make It Last (Friedman) - 5:24
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- Personnel:
- Stephen Watts - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Michael Friedman - electric bass
- David Watts - guitars
with - Tom Capek - keyboards, piano, synth. programming
- Larry Thompson - drums
- Gary Sosias - congas, timbales, percussion
- David Pearl - piano solo (#4)
Every so often an album is released that is simply love at first listen. This is one of those rare gems, so sweet and likable that you might wish there were more than eight songs. Led by Stephen Watts' lilting tenor and soprano sax stylings, Dotsero's horn oriented seasonings fall right into the pop jazz mix, a true radio programmer's dream. From the tropical "Pacific Balcony" to the playful "Jazzmanian Folk Dance," these are some of the catchiest tunes in early contemporary jazzdom -- with "Private Thompson" ringing particularly groovy and hooky. Cynics may say that Dotsero's music sounds like all the other MOR NAC product. While it's true that they are not exploring any new and unusual musical ground, they are more than compensating that fact with pure pleasure. Dig the funky African cover art, too.
Review by Jonathan Widran