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MP3 James Bongiorno - Candlelight
11 MP3 Songs in this album (64:43) !
Related styles: Jazz: Piano Jazz, Jazz: Contemporary Jazz, Featuring Piano
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JAMES BONGIORNO
CANDLELIGHT—Self Released. https://www.tradebit.com. Perdido; Quiet Nights; I’ve Never Been In Love Before; Candlelight; Our Love Is Here To Stay; Happy Little Sunbeam; I Can’t Cry Anymore; I Should Care; Don’t Let Your Eyes Go Shopping For Your Heart; Isn’t It Romantic; Samba DM
PERSONNEL: James Bongiorno, piano; Del Atkins, bass; Rayford Griffin, drums
By Ryan Prestone
James Bongiorno plays with fire. I don’t mean that he’s a pyromaniac with his technique (or literally, although I can’t vouch for that since I don’t know him personally) but he burns with passion—a passion that is not subtle, or nuanced—it is neither warm nor cool—it is hot, and if you get too close, it will consume you, like it did me. Fiery passion has no room for being sly, it has no room for pre-conception—it is a state of perpetual combustion of the self, where all that you are is being expressed at once. There is nothing to restrain. When you truly know who you are, and are comfortable with that, in complete acceptance of it, you can get to this state that James is always playing from. He has a musical identity all his own. To describe it in words would be to say that he is heavy handed, has a quirky sense of time, although definite, consistent, and endearing—he seems to revel in his discoveries as they happen, giving them a second to ring out so he can take them in, and allow the listener to take them in before he is off to the next one. He mixes thick chord melody playing with fast fleets of single notes all by themselves for contrast but always with that powerful hand that is so much a part of his sound. You can hear his love of the music, and love has no room for comparison. You can compare hip players to each other, but when someone plays with love, you’d be missing the boat to stay on shore and speculate about whose boat is bigger, better or faster than the other, when you can be enjoying the journey. Only some players can take you on that journey. Some can go further on a canoe than others can go on a mega-yacht.
Joining DaBonge (as he is often called) is a wonderful rhythm section that includes Del Atkins on bass and Rayford Griffin on drums. Together, they play with swinging precision, completely tuned in to the sounds of DaBonge. They both show just how good they are with scattered solos throughout the record. The extremely self-deprecating Bon-giorno writes in the liner notes, “I’d like to thank my rhythm section, Del and Rayford, for making me sound better than I am.”
These musicians play without trying to prove something, and this is what makes the record resonate so well with the listener—the good intentions, the honesty, the love, and the healing vibe that those elements create—that is what we crave, and Candlelight delivers.
From JazzInsideMagazine/New York/Sept. 2010
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