Track Listing

1. Double Life
2. Tropical
3. Uppercut
4. The Girl From Ipanema
5. Brother Ray
6. Anytime, Anywhere
7. When I�m With You
8. Spanish Night
9. And Then Some
10. Jumpstart
11. Home, James

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104517 in Music
• Released on: 2005-02-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
Loeb’s new CD, When I’m with You, is his seventh recording as a leader on Shanachie Entertainment, and it confirms what his fans intuitively understand about the New York-based guitarist: that stellar musicianship, engaging tunes and a variety of imaginative arrangements still trump flash and hype. Arriving on the heels of his bold genre-bending collection eBop, released in 2002, and last year’s all-star take on popular TV show themes which he masterminded, Jazz for Couch Potatoes, the new disc is a triumphant return for Loeb, who continues to prove why he is among the best in jazz.

For When I’m with You Loeb decided to slow down his creative process some and let his ideas for the project fully germinate. "I went for a spell without writing any new songs after eBop, and then I was out on tour playing for several months," recalls Loeb. "In the hotel rooms, when I was practicing, a lot of new riffs and melodies started bubbling to the surface, though, and with all these new musical ideas came a desire to give recognition to some of the individuals who’d been big factors in my life and career. As a result, there are a lot of song dedications on When I’m with You, to people like Jim Hall, Stan Getz and Ray Charles, plus my wife and two daughters, of course." The title-track is a song that Loeb says "is a message to the people who listen to my music that’s indicative of how I feel to be a musician visiting and playing in someone else’s world."

The New York Times
"The Clark Kent of jazz guitar."

Jazziz Magazine
"Among the unsung heroes of smooth jazz."

Customer Reviews

Smoothjazz.com Review
There comes a time with certain artists when they've become so good, so reliably in-the-pocket, yet always fresh and innovative, that you feel totally comfortable trusting anything new that comes from them. Such is the case with guitarist Chuck Loeb. I picked up the new project from the NY based virtuoso expecting it to be outstanding, and it most certainly is, even surpassing my expectations with the variety of material on the disc, but all of it perfectly suited to Smooth Jazz listening. WHEN I'M WITH YOU finds Mr. Loeb and his guitar playing in top form, from the Smooth Jazz radio hit "Tropical" to a fresh new "chilled-out" interpretation of "The Girl from Ipanema," to a beautiful, winsome vocal from his wife, Carmen Cuesta on the title track.  There's just no doubt about his talent when you listen to the music on WHEN I'M WITH YOU, and it's so appealing, so Smooth Jazz perfect, if you will, that there shouldn't be any question in your mind about whether you want to add this to your library. There's nothing on this CD that would turn you away, or spoil the mood, or not be pleasing to your ear, from the ballads to the bluesy, the sweet to the funky. The harmony in it all is the outstanding material, arranging, and playing. Smooth Jazz just doesn't get any better than this. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! ~Scott O'Brien

Dissapointing
I think Sandy Shore must've been stoned when he wrote his review. Don't get me wrong, there are some good tracks on this CD. But, sadly it is one of those albums where you are reaching for the remote control and in a hurry too. This album vears more towards a straight jazz sound which will dissapoint his smooth jazz fans. Some cuts feature organ and sounds awful!

"Tropical" will please smooth jazz lovers. The cover of "Girl from Ipanema" is quite nice. Carmen Cuesta sounds very nice on "When i'm with you" and "Spanish Nights" has a nice soft latino feel to it.The mastering is a big dissapointment too. My CD has 16 tracks when there should only be 11. These aren't bonus tracks at all, just recording errors of blank gaps of silence around 9 seconds long. Very poor indeed. I own every Chuck Loeb CD and am a big fan, but something's urging me to sell this whilst the CD is still new for the highest possible return. Chuck, please do what you do best, and stick to cool smooth jazz sounds. Fans do not want a mixture of organ drenched smulch blended with smooth jazz tracks. It doesn't work for me.

Awesome guitar lines
Although Chuck Loeb's name may not be as well recognized as other guitarists, he should be. After seeing him last year at Camden, NJ's Wiggins PArk I was convinced that this is a guitarist worth listening to...this album (er CD) echoes those sentiments...check out "Girl From Ipanema." This is an inventive play on a classic. If you haven't heard him yet this is a definite buy.