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Joe Beck
Just Friends
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. I Love You
2. Just Friends
3. Prelude to a Kiss
4. Get Ready
5. The Girl Next Door
6. Zanzibar
7. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
8. Gentle Rain
9. There Will Never Be Another You
10. Blues For Joe Farrell

CD Details

All Artists: Joe Beck
Title: Just Friends
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Whaling City Sound
Original Release Date: 1/1/2004
Re-Release Date: 6/13/2006
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 687606001824

Synopsis

Album Description

Master guitarist Joe Beck, along with bassist Mark Egan, and the incredible Danny Gottlieb on drums, make up the Joe Beck Trio on this recording "Just Friends." Listen as the fleet-fingered Beck and his friends work their magic through ten masterfully performed tunes, including three Beck originals. It includes liner notes authored by each of the three band members. This is an inspiring jazz trio in it's finest hour.

CD Reviews

An Exemplary Recording By An Underrated Master

NDBx | New York, NY United States | 12/31/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The thing about Joe Beck is that people don't know how good or creative he is. I was fortunate to first hear him in 1975 on a Bill Watrous recording. His playing within that context immediately captured my attention.

He can play a variety of styles such as Blues, Rock, Fusion and here, Jazz. This is an outstanding trio being that he has Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb to round out the trio.

Joe's playing is exemplary throughout. He swings, he has this full, fat tone, that implies blues but with that jazz suppleness. He improvises with imagination. He's like a guitar version of Dexter Gordon in the way he can deconstruct a melody and accentuate a portion of it in a unique way. Joe has a unique voice on guitar.

Danny Gottlieb plays as well as I've ever heard him play. He is an essential trio drummer. I heard him years ago with Michel Petruccianni where he was perfectly in synch and as he is here. He plays with plays with a sense of swing, with power and with sensitivity to what's going on at all times.

For me, after hearing a number of guitar trio recordings recently, I found this one refreshing and unique. Vibrant with all the essential ingredients and with a strong sense of identity.

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