American Dreams (2002) (Import)

Product Summary Label: Msi Music UPC: 04988005315298 Release Date: 6/27/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204883834 Item#: M3P29J Format:  CD Song Listing   Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. American Dreams ------ 2. Travels ------ 3. No Lonely Night ------ 4. It Might Be You ------ 5. Prism ------ 6. America the Beautiful ------ 7. Nightfall ------ 8. Ron's Place ------ 9. Bittersweet ------ 10. Young and Foolish ------ 11. Bird Food ------ 12. Sotto Voce ------ 13. Love Like Ours ------ 14. Some Other Time ------   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel includes: Charlie Haden (bass); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Brad Mehldau (piano); Brian Blade (drums). Recorded at Signet Studios, Los Angeles, California on May 14-17, 2002. Includes liner notes by Charlie Haden. This overly long quartet-plus-strings session is Charlie Haden's paean to an ideal America, made during a time that was ripe for such reflections. The band, with Haden on bass, Michael Brecker on tenor, Brad Mehldau on piano, and Brian Blade on drums, is unassailably strong. But listeners could have lived without the ear-candy sheen provided by the 34-piece orchestra, arranged primarily by Alan Broadbent, with additional contributions from Jeremy Lubbock and Vince Mendoza. (Broadbent and Mendoza also penned charts for Jane Monheit's In the Sun, released two weeks earlier.) Aside from outright banalities like "America the Beautiful" and "It Might Be You" (yes, the Stephen Bishop lite-radio hit), there are some saving graces, like Keith Jarrett's "Prism" and "No Lonely Nights," Mehldau's "Ron's Place," and Haden's two originals, "American Dreams" and "Nightfall." But Pat Metheny's "Travels" goes soggy without its Midwestern guitar twang, and Ornette Coleman's "Bird Food," one of only three tracks not to feature the orchestra, is so wildly out of place that its impact is somehow diminished -- notwithstanding a vivid pedal-point interlude about six minutes in. ~ David R. Adler Musical Guests Brad Mehldau Michael Brecker Brian Blade   Compilation Appearances Ringo Rama No One Knows American Dreams House That Trane Built: Story of Impulse Records Guitar Visions Federico Fellini Nino Rota (ultimat Blending Times   Associated Artists and Works In The Year Of The Dragon ~ Allen, Geri Allen, Geri Allen, Geri Artists, Various Bley, Paul Bogdanovic, Dusan Cherry, Don (Jazz) Cherry, Don (Jazz) Coleman, Ornette Deep In The Blues ~ Cotton, James Deep In The Blues ~ Cotton, James (Blues) Deep in the Blues ~ Cotton, James (Harmonica) When the Heart Dances ~ Elling, Kurt Escoude, Christian When the Heart Dances ~ Hobgood, Lawrence Konitz, Lee Konitz, Lee Metheny, Pat Metheny, Pat Mingus Dynasty The Art of the Song ~ Original Soundtrack Rubalcaba, Gonzalo Simopoulos, Nana Taylor, John (Piano) Togashi, Masahiko Various Artists Various Artists Zeitlin, Denny   Technical Info Release Date : 09/30/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : UCCV-1035 Label : Polygram (Japan) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 49880053152982    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...