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Franck Amsallem
Summer Times
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. I Got Rhythm - Franck Amsallem, Gershwin, George
2. Summertime - Franck Amsallem, Gershwin, George
3. Young and Foolish - Franck Amsallem, Hague, Albert
4. Tom's Tune - Franck Amsallem, Amsallem, Frank
5. Laila's - Franck Amsallem, Amsallem, Frank
6. The Man I Love - Franck Amsallem, Gershwin, George
7. Bud Will Be Back Shortly - Franck Amsallem, Amsallem, Frank
8. You're My Everything - Franck Amsallem, Warren

CD Details

All Artists: Franck Amsallem
Title: Summer Times
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sunnyside
Release Date: 9/23/2003
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 016728112123, 0826596003405, 766486761346

Synopsis

Album Description

Pianist Franck Amsallem's seventh record comes from a familiar angle, exploring the range of possibilities within a traditional jazz group. His sophisticated attitude toward the music gives it a rarified cosmopolitan feel, but that's only a mask for the quiet passion that lurks within. In this particular case he leads a trio & combines original material with standards, each tune coming in at a polite range from five to nine minutes in length. Digipak. Nocturne. 2003.

CD Reviews

A recommended jazz piano CD

Montmartre | Brooklyn, NY | 08/14/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"JAZZTIMES February 2004

We have an enigma in Franck Amsallem. Born in Algeria, he has lived most of his life in the United States. Usually his albums are devoted to his excellent originals, but for Summer Times (Sunnyside) his sources for most of the tunes are as American as they come:"Jazz via Tin Pan Alley." That's a quote from his notes, which sound remarkably like his keyboard style: laid-back, yet brash; simple, yet complex: unassuming, yet confident; and above all, original. With sympathetic backing by bassist Johannes Weidenmuller and drummer Joe Chambers, Amsallem visits Gershwin three times: he turns the first four notes of "I Got Rhythm" into an ostinato launching pad for a way-up romp, repeating the motif in various forms; "Summertime" receives a refreshing 5/4 treatment; "The Man I Love" is given a calypso makeover. Amsallem is always thinking, but the emotional highlight comes on the introspective "Young and Foolish." A ballad always separates the man from the boy, and the multilayered Summer Times is all human."