Four Stars?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[JSngry]

Journey Through an Electric Tube

Artist: Mike Mainieri

Journey Through an Electric Tube is not likely to be high on anyone's list, just as Mainieri is an obscure vibist. Journey may well be a cash-in on Dave Pike's success with The Doors of Perception and similar works. Journey features excellent ideas and playing and of course Sonny Lester's top direction. You have female vocals on two tracks, bossa nova on one, some fuzztone here, and "Allow Your Mind to Wander" is a 14-minute jam. It is all low-volume, pleasant, and never-abrasive, however. Call it gently experimental, forward-looking without being too forward or pretentious. — Tony Wilds

[Bright Moments]

but jim, did you like it?

[JSngry]

"Low-volume, pleasant, and never-abrasive"?

What's NOT to like?

[mikeweil]

That review is nonsense!!!

has anybody on the board really heard that record? It was very popular in Germany for a while when SWR Radio used the opening of the first track as theme song for their jazz broadcasts - still during Berendt's direction. It was a hard to get LP, I found a used copy after many years of hunting.

Jeremy Steig does some good playing, so does Mainieri, who is not obscure after all but turned more to producing crossover albums. The vocals are okay, the whole album is nice and would stand well in a box set of all of Jeremy Steig's Blue Note, Groove Merchant, and Solid State albums, if we will ever see one ...

[John B]

Here is my current favorite AMG review:

AMG

"This is aural dynamite and will challenge your accepted notions about not only jazz and classical music, but about the role of music in your life."

[Jazzmoose]

Hey, the third edtion print gives five stars to Candy Dulfer's Saxuality. Along with a not-so-great review.

I've heard it, and apparently the five stars are swirling around your head after applying a hammer to wake yourself from the CD induced stupor...