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YOU
LEAVE ME BREATHLESS!
Robert "Bootsie" Barnes Quartet
Robert "Bootsie" Barnes - saxophone
Tyrone Brown - acoustic bass
Brian Trainor - acoustic piano
Craig McIver - drums
Guests: Armen Halburian - percussionist, William "Duke" Wilson - congas/bongos
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You
Leave Me Breathless! (real audio streaming) *
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Description:
You Leave Me Breathless! Obviously a message of love. And, that's exactly
what ROBERT 'BOOTSIE' BARNES sends you in this magnificent album. A tenor
saxophonist of choice, he has honed his personal and passionate relationship
with the instrument to a degree that few can hope to approach. His voice on
the instrument comes from deep within and once you've experienced him in concert,
a club, or on the radio, the next time it happens you'll know; 'that's Bootsie
Barnes!' What you'll remember most about this album is its dedication to an
easy-going musical approach to love.
YOU LEAVE ME BREATHLESS! is a happy album! No unrequited love here! The band concentrates on music you can hum, sing, whistle, or hold your lover tight while you whirl around the dance floor.
HELLO
Robert "Bootsie" Barnes Sextet
Robert "Bootsie" Barnes - saxophone
Tyrone Brown - acoustic bass
Brian Trainor - acoustic piano
Craig McIver - drums
Guests: Armen Halburian - percussionist, John Swana - trumpet
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blues
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Description:
I remember it well. A few years back, I was sitting in an easy chair talking
with my good friend, super tenor saxophonist Robert "Bootsie" Barnes.
He leaned toward me and asked, "What's with it in the scene of jazz radio
today, Jack?" He seemed troubled and I asked him to go on. He did and
complained that an increasing amount of what he was hearing on the radio "doesn't
go anywhere!"
Such has never been true of the music of "Bootsie" Barnes! Bootsie is a musical wise man. He's a gifted storyteller with his tenor sax. When he stands before an adoring audience, he knows they crave musical tales of love and otherwise; those with clear beginnings, a middle and an end. The end can be happy or sad but it must occur. This, of course, is the case for jazz musicians playing standards, those compositions so liked by vast audiences they remain as favorites through the years.
Although the melodic line is always there out front in a "standard" or underneath an improvisation, gifted players can charm audiences almost every time. In 1940, the Father of the Jazz Tenor Sax, Coleman Hawkins, recorded an otherwise standard ballad, Body and Soul, and during its three minute length turned it into jazz magic. That composition remains a standard and such is the magic Bootsie and his colleagues bring to HELLO!