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	Steve Tavaglione Blue Tav Genres: Jazz, Pop Track Listings (10) - Disc #1 Kenya Dig It Catalina Sue-She Black Cadillac Burning Uncle Oil Rapture Blue Tav Tsunami Burning (Reprise) Contemporary world beat fusion with sax, flute, and EWI (electric wind instrument) virtuoso. Features Alan Holdsworth, Jimmy Johnson, Vinnie Colaiuta, Michael Landau, and John Pena.
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CD Details

All Artists: Steve Tavaglione
Title: Blue Tav
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Creatchy Records
Release Date: 6/1/2004
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style: Smooth Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 029817991929

Synopsis

Album Description

Contemporary world beat fusion with sax, flute, and EWI (electric wind instrument) virtuoso. Features Alan Holdsworth, Jimmy Johnson, Vinnie Colaiuta, Michael Landau, and John Pena.

CD Reviews

Less Of what I Though It Would Be!...

Jeff T. Jesmorh | Mexico City. | 08/31/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Knowing the reputation of Steve Tavaglione as a Musician, with sidemen like Jimmy Johnson (Bass); Vinnie Colaiuta (Drums); Allan Holdsworth, Michael Landau (Guitars); John Beastley (Acoustic Piano), David Garfield (Keyboards); Lenny Castro (Percussion), Walt Fowler (Trumpet & Flugehorn),and Steve Tavaglione (EWI, Alto & Soprano Sax), it's obvious to think that this disc would probably be a jazz recording or something... but it isn't.

This 1997 recording presents a collage of modern Jazz with New Edge, acoustic traditional jazz and Rock, mixed with synthesized rhythms and patches, light techno musical passages (a la Michael Jackson!) and Rock and Fusion solos with sax and guitar that achives some freshness but, as a whole, almost out of the jazz context; losing musical uniformity. Only the top tracks are: "Keyna Dig It", "Catalina", "Rapture" and "Tsunami".

Maybe the reason behind this fact is that almost all the compositions are David Garfield's (and old friend of Toto's drummer Jeff Porcaro), and furthermore he play in all tracks. So maybe all this musical patches and other efects are Grafield's ideas... So Good Luck!

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