Kevin Eubanks - Face To Face

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:43
Size: 95,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:25)  1. Face To Face
(5:06)  2. That's What Friends Are For
(5:37)  3. Essence
(4:55)  4. Silent Waltz
(4:45)  5. Moments Aren't Moments
(5:31)  6. Wave
(3:23)  7. Relaxin' At Camarillo
(3:50)  8. Ebony Sunrise
(3:08)  9. Trick Bag

Kevin Eubanks' first album with a string section is a triumph of good taste, both in the guitarist's gently swinging work and in GRP chief Dave Grusin's unobtrusive, intelligent, unsentimental string charts. Grusin's gorgeously recorded strings seem to seep into the texture, filling the spaces with just enough mortar. 

The backings alternate between an electric group with Marcus Miller on bass and Grusin applying the Yamaha DX7 electric piano sound and often just Ron Carter on acoustic bass (plus the strings, of course). The treatment of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Wave" is a beaut, with a lot of rapid acoustic guitar figurework in mid-track. Even unreconstructed beboppers will enjoy the fluid duo-only exchange between Carter's 4/4 bass and Eubanks' electric guitar on Wes Montgomery's "The Trick Bag" and Bird's "Relaxin' at Camarillo," the latter of which Eubanks immodestly calls attention to in his liner notes. But he's entitled; it is impressive. ~ Richard S. Ginell https://www.allmusic.com/album/face-to-face-mw0000187982

Personnel:  Kevin Eubanks - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar; Marcus Miller - Electric Bass; Ron Carter - Double Bass; Dave Grusin - Keyboards; Buddy Williams - Drums; Ralph McDonald, Crusher Bennett, Paulinho Braga - Percussion

Face To Face

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