David Budway - New Kiss - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Chesky - Urbanicity [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/01/2011

Three CD collection. With a career that spans over three decades, the Lighthouse Family's brand of easy going and uplifting R&B and soul-infused Pop remains known and loved throughout the UK and beyond. This definitive collection celebrates this long and successful career by bringing together the very best of the duo's musical output starting right at the beginning with 1995 hit 'Lifted' right through to tracks from the 2019 album 'Blue Sky In Your Head'. Also featured are other chart smashes 'Ocean Drive' and 'High', various other singles, album tracks and b-sides as well as a number of exciting remixes and live and alternate versions of their most popular songs. Essential Lighthouse Family really is the perfect showcase for this excellent catalogue of music.

2018 . While conceived as a series of tonal paintings, somehow David Chesky's cornucopia of oblique ruminations on Trio In The New Harmonic suggest to this scribe something more declamatory, and poetically austere, like some non-denominational evening service at a distant Northern latitude and longitude, bathed in a wintery glow, with the faint promise of spring colors peeking through the firmament-illuminating a largely black and white canvas with pastel intimations of some elusive wakening. Chesky's is a chamber music chrysalis seeking to be reborn as a post-modern jazz trio in the left wing traditions of those American pianists, who while they were surely informed by the harmonic cycles of Tin Pan Alley song forms, and a blues/ragtime/swing based tradition of the piano in it's virtuoso approximation of post-bop orchestral power, were not beholden to it; seeking instead to depict a more abstract canvas, a painterly sense of the piano's potential for said chamber music sensibility in which, while there is considerable heat applied to the collective improvisational pot, things are consciously never quite fired up to a full boil.