Eye Contact (album)
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Eye Contact is an album by Jay Beckenstein
released in 2000.
Jay Beckenstein
Jay B. Beckenstein is a saxophone player, smooth jazz artist and together with Jeremy Wall founded Spyro Gyra...
released in 2000.
Track listing
- "Sunrise" (Minucci) 5:09
- "The Other Side" (Beckenstein, Loeb) 4:49
- "Northline" (Beckenstein, Loeb) 4:27
- "Eye Contact" (Loeb) 4:55
- "West Side Cool" (Beckenstein, Miles) 4:07
- "Heart and Mind" (Beckenstein) 5:33
- "Goodbye Pork Pie HatGoodbye Pork Pie Hat"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session...
" (Charles MingusCharles MingusCharles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
) 4:31 - "Monsoon" (Beckenstein) 6:29
- "Black Market" (Joe ZawinulJoe ZawinulJosef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
) 5:27 - "Turnaround" (Beckenstein, Kumalo) 3:50
- "Lookin' Up" (Beckenstein) 5:23