Sleek and catchy jazz can be found on the CD "City speak" by tenor saxophonist Richard Elliot, who is often high in the American jazz charts with his CDs. For this eleven track CD he wrote nine songs together with his drummer Dave Reinhardt and keyboard player Ron Reinhardt; "When the lights go out" was written by guitarist Richard Smith and "I'll make love to you" by Babyface. Besides the aforementioned
… musicians, bassist Naoki Yanai and percussionist Luis Conte are also part of Elliot's formation. Atmospheric songs like "I'll make love to you", "Sweet surrender" and "That's all she wrote" alternate mid tempo / up tempo songs like the title track, "Amazon" and "Down hill run".more
