[TR24][OF] Art Van Damme Quintet - Art Van Damme With Strings - 1979/2015 (Mainstream Jazz)

Art Van Damme with Strings represents something special in MPS’s Van Damme catalogue – Art’s first recording with strings. The accordion-guitar-vibes frontline is still there, but two young up-and-coming German giants of the European jazz scene, bassist Eberhard Weber and guitarist Siggi Schwab, add a new sound to this edition of the quintet. The song choices are also something special, with a discerning mixture of standards, ballads, sambas and bossas, and a soul-jazz classic. Van Damme takes a spirited happy-go-lucky solo on the Rogers and Hart standard Mountain Greenery. He shows his command of Brazilian rhythms in his sophisticated renderings the classic bossa How Insensitive and Summer Samba (So Nice). There are beautiful interpretations of the ballads Polka Dots And Moonbeams, We’ve Only Just Begun, and Moonlight In Vermont, and Van Damme’s solo on Nat Adderley’s Work Song lets the listener know the man has soul. To end the album, Van Damme and Co surprise by playing the Jobim bossa Quiet Nights with a bouncy swing feel interspersed with some lightning-quick accordion runs. With lush string backgrounds and a superb quintet to spur him on, Van Damme plays at his lyrical best.

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Analyzed: Art Van Damme Quintet / Art Van Damme With Strings
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -1.88 dB   -13.32 dB      2:43 01-Perdido
DR9       -1.64 dB   -13.27 dB      3:11 02-Polka Dots And Moonbeams
DR10      -0.85 dB   -13.21 dB      2:25 03-Mountain Greenery
DR9       -1.82 dB   -13.18 dB      3:28 04-We've Only Just Begun
DR10      -1.67 dB   -13.36 dB      2:53 05-So Nice
DR10      -1.83 dB   -13.83 dB      4:09 06-What's New?
DR9       -2.01 dB   -12.61 dB      3:20 07-On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
DR9       -1.56 dB   -12.88 dB      3:45 08-Insensatez (How Insensitive)
DR9       -1.06 dB   -12.20 dB      2:33 09-Work Song
DR9       -2.04 dB   -13.91 dB      3:59 10-Moonlight In Vermont
DR9       -1.89 dB   -13.24 dB      2:01 11-A Man And A Woman
DR9       -1.00 dB   -12.87 dB      3:04 12-Corcovado
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate:        88200 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   24
Bitrate:           2627 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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