Bob Berg - Another Standard (1997)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Bob Berg Title Another Standard Length 56:34 Discs: 1 Tracks: 9 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label Stretch Records Cat. Number 9013 Style General Jazz Rating Recorded 1997

Musicians	Credits
Bob Berg sax tenor Mike Stern guitar Ed Howard bass Gary Novak drums Randy Brecker trumpet, fluegerhorn	Producer Bob Berg Producer David Kikoski Producer John Burk Engineer Bernie Kirsh

Track list

01 You And The Night And The Music 06:09 02 Summer Wind 04:38 03 Michelle 06:38 04 Just In Time 07:01 05 My Man's Gone Now 07:31 06 All The Way 05:37 07 No Trouble 06:26 08 It Was A Very Good Year 06:32 09 I Could Write A Book 06:02

Notes

AMG Review by Stewart Mason (2): The first collection of standards by soprano and tenor saxophonist Bob Berg, 1997's Another Standard has a track listing as uninspired as its title. Seriously, there should be a permanent moratorium on new versions of "Summer Wind," "It Was a Very Good Year," "You and the Night and the Music," and especially "Michelle." (Although he does at least get credit for not choosing the even hoarier "Yesterday.") Berg, a supremely tasteful and occasionally inspired soloist, plays well throughout, with some particularly nice tenor work on "My Man's Gone Now" (from Porgy and Bess); he maintains some of the credibility light jazz saxophonists lost when Kenny G appeared. The arrangements are lightly swinging, with a refreshing lack of electric piano or bass, and there's nothing really wrong with the album, it's just got an unshakeable air of "been there, done that." Start with one of Berg's albums of originals instead.