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专辑简介：这是一支处于巅峰状态的乐队，火力全开。这张专辑可能是爵士乐，但它是想摇滚的爵士乐。而在这张唱片上，它的摇滚效果让你无法相信。你放得越大声，它就越好听。《火之鸟（Birds of Fire）》是有史以来最棒的两三张爵士/摇滚融合专辑之一。根据我的经验，在这一类型的唱片中，很少有唱片能与最好的压制唱片的动态和能量相媲美--如果你有大动态系统的话。很难想象还有哪张唱片能像它一样震撼，而且它甚至不是一张真正的摇滚唱片！我们发现自己在播放《房屋（Houses）》这样的专辑时，会发现它是一张真正的摇滚唱片。我们发现自己会把《省点（Houses of the Holy）》和《Zep II》以及《月亮的黑暗面（Dark Side of the Moon）》这样的专辑播放一个小时又一个小时，有几十张拷贝要看完，我们经常这样做。如果说有谁知道大石之声，那就是我们。但我们真的能说那些专辑比这张专辑更摇滚吗？《火之鸟（Birds of Fire）》对于爵士乐的意义就像《Zep II》对于摇滚乐的意义一样--一个乐队在他们绝对的巅峰状态下的终极宣言。艺术家简介：作为首屈一指的融合乐团之一，马哈维什努管弦乐团(Mahavishnu Orchestra)在其鼎盛时期被大多数观察家认为是一支摇滚乐队，但其复杂的即兴演奏实际上使其高能音乐介于摇滚和爵士之间。创始人兼领队约翰•麦克劳林（John McLaughlin）最近曾与迈尔斯•戴维斯（Miles Davis）和托尼•威廉姆斯（Tony Williams）的Lifetime乐队合作。乐队最初的阵容是电吉他手麦考林（McLaughlin）、小提琴手杰里•古德曼（Jerry Goodman）、键盘手扬•哈默（Jan Hammer）、电贝斯手瑞克•莱尔德（Rick Laird）和鼓手比利•科巴姆（Billy Cobham）。他们在1971-1973年期间为哥伦比亚唱片公司录制了三张紧张的专辑，随后第二版乐队的人员完全改变。除了麦考林，1974年的化身包括小提琴手让-吕克•庞蒂（Jean-Luc Ponty）、键盘和主唱盖尔•莫兰（Gayle Moran）、电贝斯手拉尔菲•阿姆斯特朗（Ralphe Armstrong）和鼓手纳拉达•迈克尔•瓦尔登（Narada Michael Walden）；到1975年斯图•戈德堡（Stu Goldberg）取代了莫兰，庞蒂也离开了。约翰•麦考林（John McLaughlin）对东方宗教和弹奏原声吉他的双重兴趣导致乐队在1975年解散。令人惊讶的是，1984年试图恢复马哈维什努管弦乐团，但没有成功；然而，当人们想到马哈维什努管弦乐团的时候，就会想到最初的阵容，这个阵容在整个70年代非常有影响力。国产69精品久久久久777
Greg Murphy, an inventive and versatile pianist with an epic sense of the pure and beautiful, is a formidable talent. Throughout his musical career, he has accumulated a vast number of stories, and those stories are woven into the fabric of his material. "Bright Idea", his trio recording with Jeff “Tain” Watts and Eric Wheeler, comes together in a way that embraces all of the places Murphy has been, from his grinding, intensive study in New York, his time in New Orleans with Ellis Marsalis, his pop-funk days in Chicago, and his Latin jazz work with Raphael Cruz. It is a well and fully rounded musical adventure, rife with dimension and color, and his most fully realized recording yet. At this point in his career, we would expect no less. Recorded, produced and arranged by Murphy, Bright Idea features mainly originals, with a few exceptions, including a torrid rendition of the Pharrell Williams tune “Happy.” With Watts and Wheeler alongside, Murphy achieves an energetic vitality on the session, especially on tracks like the newly discovered Coltrane composition, “Untitled Original 11383,” a twelve-bar blues, and Joe Ford’s “Earthlings.” But throughout the album there is generosity, reciprocity and the desire to make memorable and triumphant music. Bright Idea, Greg Murphy’s second Whaling City Sound project and fifth overall, is his strongest statement as a leader and his most beautifully played collection of stories. Now swinging with the best, Murphy has come out the other side of life’s challenges and is now destined, even determined, to find his place in the pantheon of jazz piano.
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