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| ARTIST: | Bob Florence & Limited Edtion |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sea Breeze Records |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Afternoon of a Prawn, Jeff N' Jeff, Soaring, Nobody's Human, Soundsketch, Misbehavin' |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 017231208228 |
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Customer Reviews of Soaring
A Welcome CD Reissue of A Superb Recording Bob Florence has been a leading bandleader/composer since the 1960's. The current incarnation of his band, the "Limited Edition," had its genesis in the late '70's, with such high-priced talent as Warren Luening, Pete Christlieb, Nick Ceroli, Steve Huffstetter, Chauncey Welsh, etc.
While the band is in terrific shape now (2002) coming off its Grammy-winning "Serendipity 18" album, "Soaring" remains my desert island Bob Florence recording. Made in the early '80's following the wonderfully performed but poorly recorded "Westlake", "Soaring" was recorded on Pete Christlieb's short-lived "Bosco" label (named for his Saint Bernard). He was a member of the band at the time, and this project was done with consummate care.
Florence's compositions are spectacular. From the scorching "Afternoon of A Prawn" to the virtuosic and enormously clever "Misbehavin'" (based on Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz"), he avoids a sometime tendency to produce top quality pattern music and instead delivers some of the finest and most original big band writing of any era. Every composition is a gem.
And then there are the performances. Playing some of the most difficult music ever written for jazz band, the players conjure an ideal balance between edginess and absolute technical security. It helps to have the extraordinary George Graham on lead trumpet and, in Nick Ceroli, one of the greatest big band drummers in history, but the fact is there isn't a hint of a bad note to be found anywhere. Every solo is a standout, everything is perfectly shaded, and almost twenty years after its original release it's impossible to imagine these charts being performed any better than they are here.
I urge any jazz lover - or music lover - or lover of exciting things - to pick this one up without delay. I predict you will be amazed.
Great big band, great charts.
Florence put this one out in the 80's, and the band is first rate. The title track has a killer trombone solo and throughout the entire CD the rhythm section plays as one. Indeed, this album soars!