Peter White – Guitar & Keyboards
Each track has different
personnel, but the album is very much
the way Peter White wanted it to be.
It is very much in the smooth jazz genre;
the kind of stuff Jazz FM plays a lot
of. It is strange music because it requires
a high degree of musical ability to
play, but in order to be smooth; it
looses a lot of what jazz is about.
There are some fine
tracks on this album, Christopher Cross’s
vocal on She’s In love is very pleasant
and Peter White’s guitar playing throughout
is well worth a listen. If these guys
would swallow all the synthetics and
produce a jazz album, where everyone
plays what they feel. I am sure that
they would produce a product of more
value than tracks like these, that take
months to contrive, but in the end don’t
add up to anything more that nice music
to drive along to on a nice sunny day.
To me Smooth Jazz sounds
wonderful in California or Florida or
even on the Med., but in Coventry on
a wet Wednesday! I’m not so sure! On
the other hand, if Smooth Jazz turns
you on, this is as good as it gets
Don Mather
CD Reviews
Columbia 516196 2
