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1 |
Get
Yourself A Life |
2 |
Cry |
3 |
If
Only |
4 |
I
Care |
5 |
Days
Gone By |
6 |
The
Lonely Road |
7 |
Carmen
Miranda |
8 |
Skidaddle |
9 |
The
End Of The World |
10 |
New
Town |
11 |
Count
Me In |
12 |
Dodo |
13 |
Phone Home |
14 |
Lights Out |
Chris
Conway - |
piano, keyboards, electric & 9 string guitar (2, 5), bamboo
flute, kalimba, voice, |
Neil
Segrott - bass,
electric guitar 1, 9, 10 |
John
Runcie - drums |
Andy
Nicholls - tenor
saxophone |
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Straight ahead jazz, Latin and ballads.
Featuring excellent Chris Conway's quartet and his stunning
jazz piano playing and compositions. - "lyrical, light-fingered, usually breezy approach
dominating every track" - Jazz Journal
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background
After
2 albums by his Happy Landings trip which mixed modern ECM styled
jazz with atmospheric and world music influences, Chris added
sax player Andy Nicholls and decided to make a much more straight
ahead jazz album.
Andy brought with him 2 tunes and Chris asked each player to
provide a solo interlude.
The album provided the backbone to Chris's Quartet and jazz
band concerts for quite a few years, in fact he regularly plays
some of these pieces in a duo with Andy Nicholls.
Having remastered the Happy Landings albums it seemed a good
time to remaster Who Cares? so that this great band and album
could be heard in full.
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influences
Charles
Lloyd, Bobo Stenson, Steve Kuhn, Terje Rypdal, Novi Singers,
Tony Scott, Jiri Stivin, Bosko Petrovic. Paul Horn
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trivia
10 tracks from this album ended up on the Breathtaking album -
a compilation of tracks from this album and the Happy Landings
albums. The tracks here have been remastered, however.
The 4 solo interlude tracks were designed as aural breaks to
refresh the ears along the way.
The End of The World & Get Yourself A Life & Cry all became jazz songs. Cry can be heard as Cry For The
Mountains on the Chris Conway Live! album
Chris
is a big Carmen Miranda fan, hence the title of that track.
CC's fave track - Cry
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reviews
Jazz Journal
Although
born in Michigan USA, Chris Conway is now mainly resident in
Britian and is known best for multi-instrumental work with the
world-music group Jazz Orient/Re-Orient.
On this album, he concentrates on jazz piano, his lyrical,
light-fingered, usually breezy approach dominating every track.
Nicholls delivers some workmanlike tenor solos, notably on Cry
and Dodo, while the rhythm section are subtle and unobtrusive
throughout.
Highlight of the set is the funky, sprightly Phone Home which
gets a thorough shaking down here. The style is undemonstrative
jazz-fusion, with a certain New Age lightness in places, which
makes for a pleasant listen.
Simon Adams
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