Eddie Daniels - Beautiful Love (1997) Flac

Tracklist

01 - Awakening
02 - Beautiful Love
03 - First Gymnopedie
04 - Waltz For Mirabai
05 - The Ninth Step
06 - We'll Always Be Together
07 - A Take On Five
08 - Love's Journey
09 - Brunete
10 - Summer's Gone

personnel :

Eddie Daniels - alto flute, clarinet
Lawrence Feldman - alto flute
Ron Odrich - bass clarinet
Bob James - piano
Chuck Loeb - guitar
David Finck, Tim LeFebvre - bass
Wolfgang Haffner - drums
David Charles - percussion

This outing from Eddie Daniels is a definite disappointment. A remarkable clarinetist who ranks at the top of his field, Daniels sounds quite restrained throughout the easy listening set, just throwing in a few complex runs on "Beautiful Love" as if to remind listeners who he is. With a tasteful but rather anonymous-sounding rhythm section (including guitarist Chuck Loeb and pianist Bob James), Daniels mostly sticks to melodic interpretations during a theme apiece by Bach, Erik Satie, and Rachmaninov, four of his own originals, two by Loeb, and the title cut. The music, subtitled "Intimate Jazz Portraits," is supposed to be quiet, but that is no excuse for it being uniformly dull. The clarinetist is obviously capable of much more significant work. ~ Scott Yanow