WITH SO MUCH TALENT OUT THERE, IT’S BEEN REALLY AMAZING TO SEE HOW MUCH IS REALLY OUT THERE, WITH THIS BEING SAID, THERE IS A SUPERSTAR THAT HAS BEEN MAKING MUSIC MOST OF HIS LIFE, A TRUE MUSIC LEGEND, WHO I’M SPEAKING OF IS CHRIS JASPER. THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH MOST OF THE WRITING & PRODUCTION OF THE ISLEY BROTHERS MUSIC FROM 1973 THROUGH 1983. THIS LAST WEEK CHRIS HAS RELEASED HIS 16TH SOLO EFFORT CALLED “FOR THE LOVE OF YOU” AN A TRULY AMAZING & TRULY INSPIRATIONAL ALBUM. THROUGHOUT CHRIS’ MUSICAL JOURNEY HE’S ALWAYS HAD THAT DEEP FOUNDATION OF DEEP SOUL SEARCHING AND TRULY INSPIRATIONAL AND GOSPEL FILLED MUSICAL TALENT. THIS ARRIVES IN YOUR EARS IN THE FORM OF HIS AMAZING MUSIC. WITH THIS IN MIND HIS LATEST PROJECT CALLED “FOR THE LOVE OF YOU” BRINGS THIS ALL TO YOUR EARS. A VERY UPLIFTING AND SOULFUL SOUND THAT IS TRULY A REMARKABLE ALBUM & SOUND THAT RINGS TRUE TO WHO CHRIS IS AS A MUSIC ARTIST. HIS MASTERY OF THE TRULY INSPIRED SONG ASSORTMENT WITH HIS ENTIRE MUSIC CATALOG HAS THAT TRULY LOVE BASED AND FAITH LED SONGS THAT RINGS THROUGH YOUR SPEAKERS AS HIS AMAZING VOCALS AND THE AMAZING SINCERITY THAT CHRIS PROJECTS THROUGH HIS MARVELOUS MUSIC. THE FIRST SONG CALLED “FOR THE LOVE OF YOU” WRITTEN BY CHRIS , THE SONG HAS THAT TRULY BELOVED SOUL CLENCHING SOUND THAT RUNS DEEP THROUGH YOUR VEINS AS CHRIS’ VOCALS ARE AMAZING AND FELT TO THE PLACE WHERE LOVE RESIDES, IN YOUR HEART. “I ONCE HAD YOUR LOVE AND CAN’T LET GO” ANOTHER SOUL DRIVEN SONG WRITTEN BY CHRIS, THE SONG RESIGNATES AND REVERBERATES LOVE ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND SHINES AND HAS A TRUE WARM FEELING ALL THE WAY THROUGH. THE NEXT SONG ON THIS TRULY LOVE ALBUM IS CALLED “HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY, WRITTEN BY VAN MORRISON, CHRIS PLACES HIS SPIN ON THIS SONG AND ONE REALLY FEELS THE SOULFUL EFFORT ARRIVING FROM CHRIS’ WONDERFUL & TOTAL MUSICALITY FROM HIS HEART VOCALS MAKE THE SONG A TRUE LOVE BALLAD THAT INDEED IS MUSICAL ART. THE NEXT SONG THAT HAS A TRUE THREE MINUTES AND NINETEEN SECONDS OF TRULY INSPIRED WORK, CHRIS SINGS A SONG WRITTEN BY THE LATE SAM COOKE CALLED “NOTHING CAN CHANGE THIS LOVE” AND THE SONG WAS ALREADY ONE OF MY FAVORITES, AND NOW HEARING CHRIS JASPER SING IT, WOW!! WHAT A TRULY MAGICAL MOMENT THAT CAN BE TASTED WITH CHRIS’ SAVORY VOCALS THAT SERVE THE LOVE AND CAN FEEL THE TRUE INSPIRATION DRIVEN FROM THE PASSAGES OF MUSICAL TIME. “GOD IS LOVE” A SONG CO WRITTEN BY THE LATE MARVIN GAYE, ANNA GAYE, JAMES NYX JR, & ELGIE STOVER, A TRULY REMARKABLE AND REALLY SHOWCASING CHRIS’ DEVINE INSPIRATION FOR A TRULY AMAZING AND LOVE FELT SONG THAT SOUNDED LIKE IT WAS TRULY MEANT FOR CHRIS TO SING. THE NEXT SONG IS ALSO AN AMAZING SOULFUL HEART WRENCHING AND TRULY A LOVE SONG OF ALL TIME THE SONG WRITTEN BY THE LATE BILLY PRESTON & SONGWRITER BRUCE FISHER, THE SONG THAT JOE COCKER MADE EVERYONE STAND UP & TAKE NOTICE BACK IN 1975, THE SONG “YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL”, WHERE, NOW CHRIS JASPER SPINS HIS MUSICAL MAGIC ON IT & ARRIVES BEAUTIFULLY. AS MOST OF YOU KNOW I’M A REAL SUCKER FOR LOVE BALLADS & WITH THIS VERSION I’M SPEECHLESS, CHRIS REALLY HITS THE NOTES JUST RIGHT AND BRINGS IN HIS SOUL DRIVEN VOCALS AND DELIVERS A MASTERPIECE OF AMAZING MUSICAL SWEETNESS. “I DON’T WANT TO MISS A THING” A SONG POPULARIZED BY THE MOVIE “ARMAGEDDON” AND SUNG BY THE ROCK GROUP AEROSMITH, AND WRITTEN BY DIANE WARREN, CHRIS PLACES HIS TRULY MAGNIFICENT VOCALS AND HIS BEAUTIFUL HARMONIES ON THI SONG AND IS TOTALLY A SPLENDID PIECE OF MUSICAL MASTERY FOR CHRIS JASPER. THIS ALBUM, LIKE ALL OF CHRIS’ PREVIOUS MUSICAL CATALOG HAVE THE FOUNDATION OF AMAZING MUSICALITY AND ARRIVE FROM THE CORNERSTONE OF TOTALLY DEVINE AND HEARTFUL INSPIRATION THAT IS ALWAYS WELCOME IN MY MUSICAL LIFE AND WILL ALWAYS HAVE THAT SPECIAL PLACE THAT WHERE ALL IS KEPT…… THE HEART
THANK YOU CHRIS JASPER FOR THE TOTALLY AMAZING MUSIC AND YOUR TRUE FRIENDSHIP AND YOUR EVER GIVING GIFT OF MUSIC THAT WE ALL CAN RELATE TO AND KEEP IN OUR HEARTS FORVER.
STEVEN F. ADAMS
MUSIC REVIEWER/ PROMOTER/ OWNER SOUND WAVE ONE
C 2020 USED BY PERMISISON
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