Track Listing

1. Very Good Thing
2. Nightfall
3. Hollywood and Vine
4. One Love
5. Moonshot
6. China Bath
7. Magic Moment
8. Soul on Soul
9. South of Midnight
10. Aqua Funk

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107756 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-15
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Impressive from start to finish!
Until yesterday, I've never heard of Rick Braun. While shopping for new Jazz tunes, I ran across the CD, "Full Stride". Normally I'm reluctant to purchase music by an artist in which I'm unfamiliar. Needless to say, I threw caution to the wind and purchased, "Full Stride." I'm very happy with my selection. Every cut on this CD was written and played with total musical aplomb. There's no doubt about it. This entire CD is so good that it is rather difficult for me to tell you which tracks are the best. You won't come up empty handed if you decide to make this CD a part of your Smooth Jazz collection. Nicely done Mr. Braun!

Full Flow
This album, from the opening,has a smooth flowing texture that gives it a care-free vibe and it almost seems like the album was recorded completely live in one take in the studio. All the songs flow like day and night and the song qualities really have a symbalism to the moods and atmosphere of both parts of the day. Very enjoyable Smooth Jazz.

Ben.
the 15 year old.

Why this is doing so well on the charts :
This is a brilliant album. Technically excellent, perfectly balanced (from catchy tunes like "Hollywood and vine", "Aqua funk", to more spiritual ones like "China Bath"), with a unique voice on the caressing "soul on soul" (track number 8 : Maysa Leak is former lead singer of Incognito, Jean Paul Maulnick's band). I can hardly see anything negative on this album, which is probably one of the best in its genre released in the past 6 months, together with JK's "What's the word" and Jeff Lorber's "Midnight". Rick Braun proves it is possible to play the trumpet without being too "classical" or too "jazzy", and keeps improving with each new album.