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Danny C
Danny C's Musical Review
Genre: Jazz

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Introduction
2. Let Us Love
3. Mullets
4. Angel From Montgomery
5. Straighten Up And Fly Right
6. Hot House
7. Love Letters
8. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
9. Daydream
10. Grandma's Hands
11. Hit That Jive Jack
12. Sleeping Dancer
13. Dance To The Music...Will It Go Round In Circles...I Wish
14. Close Your Eyes

CD Details

All Artists: Danny C
Title: Danny C's Musical Review
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Courthouse Records
Original Release Date: 1/23/2001
Release Date: 1/23/2001
Genre: Jazz
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 791022175127

Synopsis

Album Description

Caught live on tape! With 21 musician friends, in six configurations, 20 year-old VCU music major Daniel Clarke directed and performed at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, VA in June 2000. "Danny C" was featured on every tune playing piano, Rhodes or organ, cranking out jazz, pop, and funk with talent far betond his years. The program rocked with more than enough contagious enthusiasm and electricity to charge the house to capacity.

CD Reviews

Danny C - No Niche Big Enough

05/11/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Twenty-year-old keyboardist and VA Commonwealth Univ. music major Daniel Clarke doesn't believe in musical boundaries. His first CD just doesn't fit a niche unless you find a record bin labeled "Good Music By Talented Artists." Jazz, funk, pop, folk: this CD has a little of each recorded live with Daniel playing piano, organ or Rhodes on each cut in six different configurations involving no less than 21 of his musical pals. All but one are covers, but each is stamped with Daniel's unmistakeable sense of how it should sound. The event was a live theater show produced and directed by, you guessed it, Daniel Clarke. John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery" done with just piano, Maria DeMaio's lead vocal with back-up, may be my favorite cut, but I also love the jazz jams in "Let Us Love," "Hit That Jive Jack" and "Hot House." The sole original, "Mullets" is a very funky, infectous instrumental. I also like the acoustic trio numbers by The Jackie Frost Trio. This CD wears well. With over 72 minutes of music, each playing seems to reveal something new and interesting. It's for musical free spirits able to appreciate all genres, interested in a new and exceptionally talented emerging artist."