Boney James - Shine
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Artist: Boney JamesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- SHINE (featuring Esthero)
- THE TOTAL EXPERIENCE (featuring George Duke)
- AQUAS DE MARCO (WATERS OF MARCH)
- LET IT GO
- IN THE RAIN (featuring Dwele)
- GONNA GET IT (featuring Faith Evans)
- BREATHE
- LOVE SONG (featuring Phillip Bailey)
- HYPNOTIC (featuring George Benson)
- THE WAY SHE WALKS
- DEDICATION
- SOFT (featuring Ann Nesby)
Music reviews of Shine
Music Review: Disappointing CD with Too Many Vocals!
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the 9th Boney James CD I have bought and the most disappointing. Right off the bat I would delete 5 of the songs, all with vocals: Shine, In The Rain, Gonna Get It, Love Song and finally, Soft. Smooth jazz artists don't seem to realize that the reason a lot of listeners got interested in smooth jazz in the first place is because they were sick of listening to meaningless vocals specializing in the words, "Whoa, ho, ho ho." So what we have here are 7 instrumentals and 5 vocals in which Boney makes a guest appearance similar to Santana on his album, "Supernatural." An award winner, yes, but not really a typical Santana album.
I feel, if it works, don't fix it. Boney had to have been doing something right for me to buy 9 of his CD's but I won't buy another one until I've heard it first. If it's anything like this album, I'll listen to someone else like Euge Groove. I can't stand anything that sounds remotely like hip/hop and this does. Soul Ballet (Ric Kelly) recently put out a CD entitled "Dream Beat Dream" that had a woman trying to groan along to the music and for me, it ruined the album.
I don't mind an occasional vocal, especially if it's special such as "Goodbye Manhattan" done by Pieces of a Dream with the lead song performed by the late Eva Cassidy. But don't feed me 5 vocals on a smooth jazz album and expect me to look forward to your next release. No thanks.
Description of Shine
After fourteen years, over 2 million records, four Gold Albums, a Soul Train Award, and two consecutive Grammy nominations, Boney James begins the next chapter of his musical career. His Concord Records debut, Shine, features guest appearances by hip-hop/soul diva Faith Evans, jazz-guitar icon George Benson, R&B vocalists Dwele and Phillip Bailey, keyboard wizard George Duke, alternative-pop singer Esthero and Sounds of Blackness powerhouse Ann Nesby. More Boney
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Smooth jazz star Boney James's first album for Concord is loaded with guest contributors: old guard pros including Philip Bailey, George Duke, George Benson, and Wah Wah Watson; and young stalwarts including Faith Evans, Ann Nesby, Dwele, Esthero, and Christian Scott. You don't need to be told it's a sleekly produced affair, replete with real strings as well as synthesized ones and vocal choruses, and that it showcases James's candy-sweet sound on saxophones. But James, who produced the album, tilts more than usual toward contemporary R&B, with the Evans-sung "Gonna Get It" taking top honors. He also reaches into the Antonio Carlos Jobim songbook with "Waters of March," covered not long ago by Cassandra Wilson, and with Nesby doing the emoting, animates the Chuck Mangione ballad, "Soft," with rippling keyboards. In striving to expand his appeal, though, he doesn't sell his fans short. --Lloyd Sachs
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