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Chuck Loeb – Silhouette 

Chuck Loeb – My Shining Hour 

Released in 1989, My Shining Hour is the debut solo album by the late jazz fusion and smooth jazz guitarist Chuck Loeb. After spending nearly a decade as a high-profile sideman for legends like Stan Getz and the group Steps Ahead, this album marked Loeb’s transition into a solo career that would eventually lead him to join the supergroup Fourplay.

The album is characterized by a “straight-ahead” jazz feel mixed with contemporary textures, showcasing Loeb’s technical fluidness and melodic restraint.

Personnel:

Bass – John Patitucci Drums – Dave Weckl Guitar – Chuck Loeb Piano – Pat Rebilot Piano, Synthesizer – Makoto Ozone Vocals – Carmen Cuesta

Album Highlights Michael Jackson Cover: His rendition of “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” is a notable early example of how Loeb could take a pop hit and reimagine it with sophisticated jazz phrasing.

Chuck Loeb – Presence

Chuck Loeb – Listen

Chuck Loeb – The Music Inside

“A splash of variety and all-star panache elevates Chuck Loeb’s The Music Inside above the typical play it safe pop-jazz date. Smooth overall but just punchy enough in all the right spots, the disc tends to surprise at the very moment its grooves start sounding too comfortable. After a relaxing take on Babyface’s languid “Breathe Again,” for instance, Loeb goes the streetsmart bluesy route with the horn drenched “Steffi’s Strut.” Other cool continental shifts include a breezy Eastern tinge, a crazed Latin attitude with the help of Michel Camilo’s trademark ivory bounce, and even tinges of classical influence. The very Sanbornesque ballad “Equal Time” features that notoriously brilliant soundalike, saxman Andy Snitzer, surrounded by the piano harmonics of Sanborn’s old cohort Michael Colina. Nelson Rangell, Eddie Daniels and Mitchel Forman round out the celeb input in a setting which shows that while Loeb is stellar on both acoustic and electric strings, his greatest contribution to the genre is his compositional diversity.” – Jonathan Widran/AllMusic.

Chuck Loeb – In a Heartbeat

Chuck Loeb – Mr Martino

Live at Java Jazz Festival 2009

Metro ( Mitchel Forman, Chuck Loeb, Victor Bailey, Wolfgang Haffner) – Metrocafe

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