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Old Friends - The Best of Ken Navarro
(2001 - Positive Music Records)

CD: $13.95 DOWNLOAD: $8.95

 

After working as a session musician in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1990, Ken Navarro moved his family and his own recording studio back east, and in 1990 began work on his first album. Over the last ten years he has recorded 12 CDs and toured the country many times over.  This retrospective includes the very best of this unique and important artist's composition and guitar work - 72 minutes of music including two newly recorded songs and 13 digitally remastered classics.  It features performances from an all star cast of Smooth Jazz musicians including saxophone greats Eric Marienthal and Brandon Fields, and bass virtuosos Gary Grainger and Spyro Gyra's Scott Ambush.

Listen to Samples
1. KISS OF LIFE Listen
2. WHEN NIGHT CALLS Listen
3. ERIC'S DREAM Listen
4. IMPERFECT THINGS (new recording) Listen
5. TRY AGAIN Listen
6. AFTER DARK Listen
7. DELICIOSO Listen
8. SMOOTH SENSATION Listen
9. FROM NOW ON Listen
10. SOMETHING SHE SAID Listen
11. ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART (new recording) Listen
12. MORNING GLORY Listen
13. SLY-FI Listen
14. COMPASSION Listen
15. ISLAND LIFE Listen
GUEST MUSICIANS
keyboards: Dan LaMaestra, Dan Reynolds, Stefan Scaggiari, Jay Rowe, Jon Ozment
saxophones: Eric Marienthal, Brandon Fields, Mike Tomaro, Rob Holmes
electric bass: Gary Grainger
acoustic bass: Scott Ambush, Steve Zerlin, Dave Wundrow
drums: Andre "Blues" Webb, Mike Aubin, Greg Grainger
percussion: Kevin Prince, Victor Williams, Alfredo Mojica, Steve Bloom

 

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