Search - BMR4 :: Turning Point

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. No Means No (Neal Alger)
2. Turning Point (Neal Alger)
3. Wrong Way (Jason Moynihan)
4. La Rosita (Paul Dupont, Allan Stuart)
5. The Blues At Clark and Addison (BMR4)
6. The Jitterbug Waltz ( Fats Waller)
7. Ain t It Funky (James Brown)
8. Iron Man (Ozzy Osbourne, William Ward, Anthony Iommi, Terence "Gezzer" Butler)
9. Who Does She Hope To Be (Sonny Sharrock)
10. The Preacher (Horace Silver)

CD Details

All Artists: BMR4
Title: Turning Point
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hallway Records
Original Release Date: 5/8/2007
Re-Release Date: 3/13/2007
Genre: Jazz
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 676340971425

Synopsis

Product Description

Chicago is one of those unique cities that has always been on the pulse of vangard change in popular music. Although the city is known most for its blues, Chicago has also played a leading role in the performance, recording, and artistic evolution of jazz. The BMR4 (Bernhardt, Moynihan, Rodbard quartet), veterans of the Chicago music scene, have proved to be quite adaptable in creating noteworthy musical mixtures of all idioms. You can hear in their jazz sound, flourishes of the city's blues, rock and R&B scenes. The band is known for it s energetic and vigorous performances in which the repertoire leaps around from 60's modal jazz,standards, modern R&B, 12 bar blues, to unique interpretations of pop classics.

CD Reviews

These cats can play!

Joel L. Parkes | Los Angeles | 05/13/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I became acquainted with BMR4 on my first trip to Chicago when, purely by luck, I heard them in concert at the Aquarium. I was blown away, and immediately bought their first CD. When I returned to Los Angeles, I got in touch with them about playing in one of the clubs out here, but I was told that they were a "local" Chicago band and didn't make it out to L.A. All I have to say is that they're the best local jazz band I've ever heard, and their sound is a bit different from that of the standard jazz quartet. Instead of a piano, BMR4 uses a guitar to comp behind the horn, in this case a very tasty tenor sax.

Their original tunes are great, and deserve to be played by other musicians (refreshing change, as a lot of "original" tunes don't deserve to be played by anyone) - their rapport is tight, the hard-earned result of having played together for years - and the musicianship is first-rate. These guys have chops, but they also have taste. This is really fresh music - ensemble jazz at its best."