Acoustic Alchemy - Back On The Case (1991)

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Artist: Acoustic Alchemy
Title: Back On The Case
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: GRP[GRD-9648]
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Fusion
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Total Time: 48:18
Total Size: 332 MB(+3%) | 115 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. The Alchemist
02. Jamaica Heartbeat
03. Georgia Peach
04. Playing For Time
05. When The Lights Go Out
06. Clear Air For Miles
07. Fire Of The Heart
08. Freeze Frame
09. On The Case
10. Break For The Border

Acoustic Alchemy - Back On The Case (1991)

personnel :

Nick Webb - Steel String Guitars, Electric Guitar, and Sitar Guitar
Greg Carmichael - Nylon String Guitars, Steel String Guitar
Terry Disley - Keyboards
Mario Argandoña - Percussion, Handclaps
Patrick Bettison - Bass
Dan Tomlinson - Cymbals, Drums
Randy Brecker - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Abe WHite - Bass (Track 9)
"Little" Terry Dee - Harmonica

The challenge for any smooth jazz artist over time is appeasing longtime fans with certain stylistic similarities, yet searching for ways to keep things unique and distinctive with each successive album. Guitarists Nick Webb and Greg Carmichael (the principals in Acoustic Alchemy) kept the reference point of their steel and nylon string chemistry intact while always venturing the new agey jazz trappings they became accustomed to. Their fifth album features sojourns into reggae, flamenco, blues, country-rock, samba, and jazz improvisation, adding up to their most styistically diverse outing up till that time. While never straying too far from the basically mellow and melodic strains that have attracted a sizeable following, Webb and Carmichael show more of their influences than ever before; Webb wrote the bluesy and romantic "When the Lights Go Out" and Carmichael's love for Spanish sounds shines through the spirited runs of "Fire of the Heart," which is better than most anything Ottmar Liebert has done in that area. "Playing for Time," with its wild drum fills and sense of boppish adventure, hints at the traditional side of jazz. The other remarkable aspect of this disc is the duo's use of outside instruments to complement their string alchemy. Randy Brecker's horns spice up the Latin gigs, but the real marvels belong to keyboardist Terry Disley, whose masterful acoustic and electronic segments lend the collection an amazing added energy.~Jonathan Widran

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