The Best of Richard Elliot

Product Description
Richard Elliot is one of the brightest stars in the smooth jazz galaxy. While working with the seminal jazz powerhouse group, Tower of Power, Richard made his solo debut in 1986 with TROLLTOWN! The saxo-phonist put out records with modest expectations and harbored no grand illusions that it would lead to a solo career. With his third album POWER OF SUGGESTION, a group of radio stations that played instrumental pop music sprouted across the U.S. and Richard instantly became a format star with his classic rendition of "When A Man Loves A Woman" taken from the TAKE TO THE SKIES set. The saxophonist blew into the nineties with several releases that sold over 100,000 units. He landed his fourth #1 album with 1997's JUMPIN' OFF, legitimizing King Richard's claim to the New Adult Contemporary (NAC) throne.

THE BEST OF RICHARD ELLIOTT features 15 tracks taken from eight top-selling Smooth Jazz albums.

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Average customer rating: Rythmic Jazz THE BEST??? Great Job Not his best A Testament to "Smooth Jazz..."

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Tracks:

1. Street Beat
2. On The Fly
3. When A Man Loves A Woman
4. If You Want My Love
5. In The Name Of Love
6. In The Groove
7. Over The Rainbow
8. Take Your Time
9. Candlelight
10. Who?
11. When The Lights Go Out
12. The Power Of Suggestion
13. Chill Factor
14. I'm Not In Love
15. Just Me And You
16. Here And Now

Album Description

Richard Elliot is one of the brightest stars in the smooth jazz galaxy. While working with the seminal jazz powerhouse group, Tower of Power, Richard made his solo debut in 1986 with TROLLTOWN! The saxo-phonist put out records with modest expectations and harbored no grand illusions that it would lead to a solo career. With his third album POWER OF SUGGESTION, a group of radio stations that played instrumental pop music sprouted across the U.S. and Richard instantly became a format star with his classic rendition of "When A Man Loves A Woman" taken from the TAKE TO THE SKIES set. The saxophonist blew into the nineties with several releases that sold over 100,000 units. He landed his fourth #1 album with 1997's JUMPIN' OFF, legitimizing King Richard's claim to the New Adult Contemporary (NAC) throne.

THE BEST OF RICHARD ELLIOTT features 15 tracks taken from eight top-selling Smooth Jazz albums.

Customer Reviews:

Rythmic Jazz.......2007-06-06

The album ahs a grat veriaty of the greatest hits of Richard Elliot.

THE BEST???.......2006-10-17

Richard Elliot is a great musician with a distinguishable record of great albums, but to call this THE BEST, Well...not exactly. There is such a long list of much better tracks that would really make it worth calling it Richard's best. C'mon, Richard, you know you can do better than this!!!

Great Job.......2005-10-10

Exactly the class act I'd expect from Richard Elliot. He's been making great sounds for a long time and this cd points that out.

Not his best.......2003-10-11

I am a huge Richard Elliot fan, owning 12 of his cd's, but if you are looking to purchase a cd by him I would not recommend this one. It has good music on it but his other titles: Chill Factor, On the Town, Crush, and his newest Ricochet are much more enjoyable and you would be better off owning one of those titles.

A Testament to "Smooth Jazz...".......2002-08-10

...and frankly, that's not a compliment. Elliot = Taylor = James = Freeman = take your pick out of any number of other "smooth jazz" musicians...ie, glorified Muzak. Not that he's never done anything worth listening to, but don't we already have enough CDs for dentists' offices and hotel lobbies?

If you're looking for yet another CD that of background stuff that doesn't merit paying too much attention to, this is pleasant enough. But if you're looking for something with some real "meat" to it, expect to be disappointed.

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