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Ten Reasons to Buy This Album

Tom | Palatine, IL USA | 04/16/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1. It's Ray Bryant 2. Though it is not solo, it is the quintessential Ray Bryant album...almost a greatest hits 3. "Hold Back Mon" is a delight 4. "Prayer Song" feels like private prayer that springs into joyous exaultation...what a way to wrap up this album 5. Stand-up base is SO cool 6. It should be the official Ray Bryant primer 7. "Girl Talk" is a delight 8. You will never take it out of the changer 9. It should be THE official jazz piano album 10. It's Ray Bryant"

The ever inventive Ray Bryant

Bomojaz | South Central PA, USA | 08/30/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was Ray's first Pablo album under his own name, a studio date done in 1976 with a trio (George Duvivier [bs] Grady Tate [d]). Everyone plays well and there are numerous highlights. I don't know what the girls are talking about in GIRL TALK, but it's some groovy, funky talk going on, and if it's about a guy, he's one lucky guy. Duvivier also takes a nice bass solo on that one. HOLD BACK MON is a light, airy Bryant tune that has a wonderful day-in-the-park feel about it. Bryant has a terrific way of inflicting the deepest blues feelings into his ballad playing, a la on GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE and LI'L DARLIN'. COLD TURKEY, another composition by Ray, is an up-tempo swinger with a JUMPIN' WITH SYMPHONY SID-like theme to it - a most attractive piece. Ray does some marvelous tension-building things on MANTECA, especially behind the bass and drum solos. But to my ears the best tune on the disc is PRAYER SONG, which is a combination of church music and soul that starts out swinging delicately but builds in power. It's a terrific song played beautifully. Modern piano trio fans will surely dig this CD."

Ten Reasons to Buy This Album

Tom | Palatine, IL USA | 03/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1. It's Ray Bryant 2. Though it is not solo, it is the quintessential Ray Bryant album...almost a greatest hits 3. "Hold Back Mon" is a delight 4. "Prayer Song" feels like private prayer that springs into joyous exaultation...what a way to wrap up this album 5. Stand-up base is SO cool 6. It should be the official Ray Bryant primer 7. "Girl Talk" is a delight 8. You will never take it out of the changer 9. It should be THE official jazz piano album 10. It's Ray Bryant"