Album Review: Standing Eight from Jeremy Green
Album: Standing Eight Artist/: Jeremy Green Label: Self-Released Website: https://jeremygreenguitar.com Standing Eight, the latest CD from guitarist Jeremy Green is an 8-song recording that fuses funk with blues rock, adult pop, and jazz. The release showcases an assortment of illustrious performers from the rock, pop and jazz worlds including Jimmy Haslip and Billy Sheehan on bass and Mike Stern on guitar. With all songs written by Green, the tracks are a collaborative effort with band members, adding their input to the arrangement. The laid back vibe of "Michael and Me" has a vintage '70s sheen in its blues rock grooves that transition into a repetitive funk pop pulse along "The Land of Oz." The guitar licks play a prominent role in the tracks, shaping and defining the melodic progressions. Reverberating effects echo across "Big Shoes," giving the track an abstract sonorous while laden with a rhythmic pattern that bran...