Friday, 25 April 2008

Don Braden - Organic

Sony/Epicure 481258 2. 1995


Starts well with a simple tenor sax/guitar tune that would relax an uptight rabid dog on speed, hits you with a pedestrian slab of dull jazz-lite, into a Jimmy Smith-esque number, then another, and..... oh well.

The only tracks that stand out aren't Braden's: Belief was written by the percussionist on this record, Leon Parker; and It Might As Well Be Spring (so laid back it'll never stand up) is a Rogers/Hammerstein composition.

Braden is a talented sax player, but not much of a writer if this is anything to go by.

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