Gregory James Cult of Beauty Collector's Edition MQD Gold CD

Cult of Beauty is high energy contemporary electric jazz, with Kai Eckhardt, Deszon Claiborne and Osam Ezzeldin. The songs were completely improvised in the studio, and Gregory James believes it is his finest recording to date. Expect the unexpected from Gregory James.

About MQD Gold CDs:
These are collector's items. The MQDs (Master Quality Discs) are hand made in the Blue Coast studio using 24k Gold discs of the highest quality. Sonically, you won't find a better sounding disc. Blue Coast makes them one at a time, on order, and directly from the masters in their studio. All discs are checked for errors, hand written and numbered. There is no artwork for the cover. They arrive in a white digi pack with gold MQD logo on front. All titles look alike except for the writing on the discs themselves and the avery label on the back with song titles.

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Gregory James is right at home leading this cast of virtuoso musicians. Cult of Beauty is an album of open compositions, energetic tracks with second-by-second coordination among the players. The title track, "Cult of Beauty," creates an audio environment with plenty of space, skillfully moving sounds, and high awareness from all the players as the moods evolve and shift. It's not so much solos with accompaniment as an energetically tumbling series of roles among the players with never a missed handoff. "Alexandria" finds a definitive role for keyboard harmony in the mix, with some 21st-century call-and-response patterns passing among the players. "As We Said" takes on a pulse pattern with occasional hints at 3/4 or 5/4 time in the open spaces. It gives guitar and piano some options for octave playing, some jazzy trills, and other tasty instrumental flavors. And, what a clean ending!