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John Barry, Chris Botti, Chet Baker
Playing by Heart (1998 Film)
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Remembering Chet
2. Playing By Heart
3. Game Of Hide And Seek
4. Tenderly - Chet Baker
5. I Didn't Love You Less
6. A Place Inside Alive And Well
7. Remembering Chet
8. Scene Unseen
9. You Go To My Head - Chet Baker
10. I Want To Stay The Night
11. Goodnight Moon
12. Mark's Graveyard Site
13. These Foolish Things - Chet Baker
14. Playing By Heart - Vows Renewed - Chet Baker/John Barry/Chris Botti

No Description Available. Genre: Soundtracks & Scores Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 25-JAN-2000

CD Details

All Artists: John Barry, Chris Botti, Chet Baker
Title: Playing by Heart (1998 Film)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Original Release Date: 1/25/2000
Release Date: 1/25/2000
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks
Styles: Cool Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Smooth Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bebop, Comedy & Spoken Word, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 028946627525

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No Description Available.
Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 25-JAN-2000

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CD Reviews

Music to dream by......

richard scafonas | Macungie,PA | 02/08/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Well, Chris Botti has done it again. He has created trumpet music that is relaxing,suggestive,and warm. This is a must CD for any jazz fan. In fact,this is a great CD to introduce a friend to the wonderful world of jazz."

Beauty, Romance, Botti, Baker....

9 | 07/10/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Playing by Heart" never fails to induce a depth of emotion in the listener from its yearning, twilight-evening feel; watching the ripples on a pond in the night time, dreaming of past and future moments with the cherished one that we hold in our heart.A dear friend introduced me to Chris Botti, but he warned me not to listen to too much all at once for fear of an overwhelming melancholy that would surely befall me. Whether melancholy is the right word, I'm not sure - it's perhaps the sweetness of a lingering memory, the dreamlike quality of Botti, Baker et al that makes an impression. To coin an overused phrase, it is a hauntingly beautiful collection of pieces that soar somewhere between the unspoken mystery of the heart and the ethereal no-mans-land between body and spirit. Listeners beware its overt romantic influence."

Absolutely stunning

9 | 01/29/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"John Barry just seems to get better and better. This music deserves to be included among his best. Chris Botti's trumpet playing only adds to the haunting beauty and brilliance of this very special music. I thank John Barry, Chris Botti and Chet Baker for their wonderful talents."

One of the few recent scores from the master

James Luckard | Los Angeles, CA | 05/24/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sadly, John Barry seems to be basically retired now. He hasn't scored a film since "Enigma" back in 2000. This was the film he did immediately before that, and while most of his score was dumped from the final theatrical version of "Playing By Heart," this album presents the score as he intended it, along with a few key pieces by Chet Baker that inspired the filmmakers and Barry.

This is not the Barry of the James Bond films, doing big, brassy orchestral sounds. Instead, we get a thoughtful, moody, jazzy Barry, closer to his roots in 50's clubs.

Reading the liner notes, with the director gushing about how perfect Barry was for the film, is a bit odd, since he proceeded to replace almost all of Barry's music with another composer. Still, this doesn't diminish the power of Barry's compositions.

I'm just glad we get to hear them, since rejected scores are almost always locked away in a vault somewhere. This music is too good for that, and somebody was thinking straight and knew this. Thank you to whoever approved the release of this album, it's unforgettable."

Among Barry's very best

M. Hilton | Indianapolis, IN United States | 02/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I picked this up in the midst of a John Barry kick. I'd never actually heard of either Chet Baker of Chris Botti until this, nor have I ever seen the film, so I can only be critical of this in terms of John Barry.That said: wow. Barry's work on this album strikes a perfect balance between the sugary romanticism of Somewhere In Time and the dark suspense of his James Bond scores. Like Antonio Carlos Jobim's melancholy twin, his melodies wind through all kinds of improbable chord changes, yet feel so decisive, so gentle-but-strong, so right. A handful of melodic ideas are explored repeatedly, but the variations are so gripping that instead of being redundant, the CD has a connected, cyclic flow. Chet Baker's counterpoints are expertly chosen and timed. Cigarette smoke seems to waft from the speakers.This album doesn't need a film to fall back on; it makes movies in the mind."