One has to give high marks to guitarist and composer Frank Gambale.
While an unabashed jazz-rock fusioneer, Gambale has always made music that was as interested in lyricism and inventive harmonic interplay as complex riffs and arpeggios.
Gambale is a composer of the first order and, as he has gotten older, his writing style has become increasingly engaging melodically; his sense of harmonic architecture is full of shapes and colors and is weighted by use of the imagination that indulges flights of whimsy.
He also understands on a cellular level the importance of ensemble communication.
Accompanied by Billy Cobham on drums and either Ric Fierabracci or Steve Billman on bass, Gambale offers listeners 12 new cuts that range from a near singing quality ("Foreign Country," "Bittersweet," "Table for One") to a harder-edged jazz full of knotty yet emotionally charged and conscious improvisation ("May the Fourths Be With You," "Smug," "Complex Emotions").
Certainly this is a guitar player's record, but it is one that has its roots in aesthetic beauty rather than in mechanics.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foreign CountryFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 06:56 | 15 MB | 49 MB |
| 2 | CachinationFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 05:52 | 13 MB | 41 MB |
| 3 | BittersweetFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 08:17 | 18 MB | 58 MB |
| 4 | Table for OneFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 06:42 | 15 MB | 45 MB |
| 5 | Ka'anapaliFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 06:37 | 15 MB | 41 MB |
| 6 | May the Fourths Be With YouFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 07:03 | 16 MB | 45 MB |
| 7 | Monkey WrenchFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 05:51 | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| 8 | SmugFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 06:25 | 14 MB | 41 MB |
| 9 | Complex EmotionsFrank Gambale | Frank Gambale | Play | 10:20 | 23 MB | 71 MB |
| 10 | Debut Solo | Frank Gambale | Play | 01:25 | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| 11 | Melodique | Frank Gambale | Play | 01:10 | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| 12 | Two Minutes B.C | Frank Gambale | Play | 01:57 | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| 68 mins | 157 MB | |||||
| 68 mins | 460 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Biles | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2 | Steve Billman | Bass |
| 3 | Billy Cobham | Drums, Percussion |
| 4 | Ric Fierabracci | Bass |
| 5 | David Frederic | Engineer |
| 6 | Frank Gambale | Arranger, Composer, Executive Producer, Guitar, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 7 | Joe Gastwirt | Mastering |
| 8 | Jim Hagopian | Cover Design, Photography |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |