CLARENCE CLEMONS - PEACEMAKER - CD 1995

CLARENCE CLEMONS - PEACEMAKER

CD EDITADO EN 1995

Z00/VOLCANO RECORDS 614223110325

Detailed item info

Track Listing
1. Peace Prayer
2. Into the Blue Forest
3. Abraxas
4. Miracle
5. Serenity
6. Spirit Dance

Album Notes
Personnel: Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Dave Koz (alto saxophone); Jordan De La Sierra (bass flute); John Schreiner (piano, synthesizer); Abraham Laboriel, John Pierce, Kai Eckhardt (bass); Gary Ferguson (drums); Luis Conte, Alex Acuna, Efrain Toro (percussion).Recorded at Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California.Personnel: Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Jordan DeLasierra (bass flute); Dave Koz (alto saxophone); John Schreiner (piano, grand piano, synthesizer); Kai Eckhardt-Karpeh, Abraham Laboriel, Sr., John Pierce (bass guitar); Gary Ferguson (drums); Efrain Toro, Alex Acuña, Luis Conte (percussion).Recording information: Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, CA.Photographer: Rory Earnshaw.While Clarence Clemons is most often seen wailing with abandon for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, on his 1995's PEACEMAKER, he changes up the pace, laying down a soft, seductive sax. While it's by no means simple smooth jazz (opening track "Peace Prayer," a dirge over tribal drums, is downright jagged at points), the LP certainly aims towards an ethereal vibe, but it's a sinister one redolent of a darkened alley at 3 A.M. with hungry eyes peering through every noir-ish shadow.

Editorial Reviews
...the debut solo from the ex-Master of Disaster comprises five lite-jazz instrumentals with titles like 'Serenity' and 'Abraxas'....a score awaiting a movie.
Mojo

...It's basically Clemons doing a Jan Garbarek album, soloing over throbbing bass and dancing percussion to create a reverent, uplifting feeling...
Option (19950901)

3 Stars - Good - ...Luxuriating in a cooling pool of acoustic tranquility where Clemons' tentative flurries of saxophone ripple against spectral piano themes, this it the ultimate chill-out zone--applied to frazzled nerve endings at the close of a fractious day...
Q (19950801)

...PEACEMAKER's six tracks are pleasant in an ethereal, New Age way... - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (19950428)