Evening With David Lanz
For all its simple pleasures and melodic charms,An Evening with David Lanzis, ultimately, less about artistic expression than about free-market commerce. David Lanz had no input on this project, a 75-minute excerpt from a 1989 concert performance in Houston, Texas. While the CD offers a nice solo piano showcase of some of Lanz's most attractive older melodies, it offers none of the humorous between-song chatter that has turned Lanz into a kind of New AgeVictor Borge--a feature you would expect in a comprehensive "live" album. The record includes an 11-minute-plus version of Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, a much-flogged New Age warhorse. Overall, this CD is a decent, though not essential, time capsule of an engaging performer.--Terry Wood