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Grover Washington JR
Breath of Heaven
A Holiday Collection
 Columbia CK
68527
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- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Breath Of Heaven (Mary’s Song)
- The Love In His Infant Eyes
- Away In a manger
- I Wonder as I Wander
- Christmas Time Is Here
- The Magi’s Song/A Child is Born
- Jesu (Joy of Man’s Desiring)
- The Christmas song
- The Christmas Waltz
- Christmas Day Chant
- Breath of Heaven (instrumental version)
Grover Washington became famous for his so-called
‘crossover’ albums, sanitised jazz for consumption by the general
public. It is a difficult road to follow because it inevitably leads
to ‘muzac’ as the thought that even more sanitisation will bring bigger
and bigger sales. Don’t get me wrong Grover is obviously a very good
player, but on this kind of album ‘swing’, that thing that jazz is
about tends to disappear. This CD is fine to play on the hi-fi whilst
you having your Christmas Dinner, there is enough jazz feel on some
tracks like Away in a Manger to keep a jazz person happy and nothing
to bring on a spasm from your old aunt! I agree with Grover’s remarks
on the sleeve note, most of these tunes are too good to be only heard
in one week of each year.
This is a re-release of a 1997 album at a budget
price (around £5) and at that price it is worth buying as background
music for the Christmas period, it has little to do with jazz however.
How much better The Christmas Song would have sounded if the rock
rhythm had been left out of the theme statement.
Don Mather
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