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I want more unearthed Mahavishnu Orchestra live cds. What an unforgettable band with Hammer playing great Fender Rhodes electric piano and being very vreative on s minimoog.
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The track :April (miami vice :Baby blues episode) i like it ...
You mean it sounds like it's from the MV episode?
Interesting...
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We need a Miami Vice release.
Well, there are a few. The 2CD set from the early 2000s is one of my most prized soundtrack CDs. It got me through my master thesis. 
But wasn’t this re-recorded? I could be wrong.
I guess it was re-recorded but I'm pretty sure it sounded very close to the originals.
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As I recall, the majority of it was re-recordings.
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Yup, but it sounds practically identical to the original recordings.
Disc 1 was previously released stuff, so Hammer didn't touch those tracks.
Disc 2 was previously unreleased, so I guess listeners didn't have too much to compare with, only how the music sounded in the actual episodes.
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I received the CD and listened through it once. While not a masterpiece, it's a solid album running 46 minutes. I'm just happy we got a new Hammer album, I thought he had stopped doing music.
I would have wanted some liner notes though. There is very little info on the cover. I guess it's a way of keeping costs down, but some info on his first new CD in 24 year shouldn't be too much to ask.
Anyone else having bought CD or download?
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Aug 28, 2018 - 9:48 PM
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goozer
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I've had a few weeks to digest the first full album offering of new* tunes from Jan Hammer in 24 years. As others have commented, it's a (re*)mixed bag—offering several flashes of his signature Vice style with a minimum of contemporary sheen, which are curiously juxtaposed with other tunes that abruptly shift the tone/mood. It all leaves me feeling that it really needed someone to step in and decide on a single thematic style, or at the very least perhaps reshuffle the song order. But since the title of the disc is Seasons, after all, in that regard I suppose it does have an overarching 'theme.'
Here a just a few brief comments about the tunes:
“Miami: Night”, “68 Reasons”, and “Cyclone” sound like they were intended for the Cocaine Cowboys score (which is still screaming for a proper FULL release!), or at least recorded contemporaneously. They are the tracks (along with *“April”) that I’m sure most fans have on repeat, since they all have that hint of pastel and neon.
“Ocean Drive” and “New World II” sound like Beyond the Mind’s Eye outtakes, which is not a bad thing.
“Seasons”, “Winter Solstice”, “Sanctuary”, and “It’s Time” round out the brand new material, and are all quite nice examples of Jan’s fusion of Classical, Jazz, and Rock that is unmistakably his.
Now, about that asterisk…
As has been pointed out from the moment the preview first hit, *”April” is a reworked version of one of the themes from the Miami Vice episode “Baby Blues,” which in this version I think was used in one of the films he did, but I’m not sure.
*”Causeway Bridge” is just a re-titled “(Theme from In The) Kingdom of the Blind”, which was one of the tracks that was featured on the Film Music page from Jan’s official website
The two “Suites,” *“Suite European” and *“Suite Latin” are concatenations of several of the tracks that were also featured on the Film Music page: ”Suite European” is a concatenation of “Sam Shot”/“Interlude”/“Warsaw Ghetto”/“Shutters”; ”Suite Latin” is a concatenation of “España”/“Costa Rica”/“España”/“Dance of the Dust”.
All source tracks used in the above Suites, as well as “Kingdom of the Blind”, have been removed from the Film Music page, and replaced with 6 new tracks: “Chamber Music”, “Chancer Love Theme”, “Gratitude”, “Road Story, “Tall Ships”, and “Waltz at 12.” A little foreshadowing, perhaps?
As an aside, I added “Little Havana” and *“The Kick” (aka Theme from Secret Agent Club) to this album in my iTunes library, which makes a whole lot more sense than their addition to the Miami Vice Special Edition.
All that being said, I am still delighted that we have been blessed with more new music from Jan. And I think we have a little insight as to what we may expect from Seasons—Pt. 2. But, please—let's not have another 24-year pause!
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Thanks for a fine review! Nice to see there are people who go a little deep into the (film) music and career of Jan Hammer.
I saw Kingdom Of The Blind back in the 90s, but I didn't know Causeway Bridge was the theme from that film.
I have tried to see as many films scored by Jan as I could find. Among them are Gimme An F, A Night In Heaven, Blood Money, Dark Angel, Tales From The Crypt, K9000, Taking Of Beverly Hills (best track is actually Ghost Box by Black Box), Kingdom Of The Blind, Beastmaster III (great opening theme), Babysitter's Seduction, A Modern Affair, The Secret Agent Club and Red Cap. There is still stuff I haven't found, like the mid 80s TV movies Two Fathers Justice and Charley Hannah. Have you seen these?
I also need to buy the Chancer 7" single. The CD-single is too expensive on discogs...
Just saw a clip from Sunset Heat on youtube, and I think I recognized something from Drive there.
He didn't write much for Red Cap, did he?
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