Kevin Eubanks - Face To Face (1986)

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Artist: Kevin Eubanks
Title: Face To Face
Year Of Release: 1986
Label: GRP[GRP-ED-9539]
Genre: Jazz, Fusion
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 41:45
Total Size: 209 MB(+3%) | 103 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 - Face To Face
02 - That's What Friends Are For
03 - Essence
04 - Silent Waltz
05 - Moments Aren't Moments
06 - Wave
07 - Relaxin' At Camarillo
08 - Ebony Sunrise
09 - Trick Bag

Kevin Eubanks' first album with a string section is a triumph of good taste, both in the guitarist's gently swinging work and in GRP chief Dave Grusin's unobtrusive, intelligent, unsentimental string charts. Grusin's gorgeously recorded strings seem to seep into the texture, filling the spaces with just enough mortar. The backings alternate between an electric group -- with Marcus Miller on bass and Grusin applying the Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound -- and often just Ron Carter on acoustic bass (plus the strings, of course). The treatment of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave" is a beaut, with a lot of rapid acoustic guitar figurework in mid-track. Even unreconstructed beboppers will enjoy the fluid duo-only exchange between Carter's 4/4 bass and Eubanks' electric guitar on Wes Montgomery's "The Trick Bag" and Bird's "Relaxin' at Camarillo," the latter of which Eubanks immodestly calls attention to in his liner notes. But he's entitled; it is impressive.

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