Track Listing

1. So What
2. Plan B
3. Pork-U-Pine
4. Seasons
5. Trouble Man
6. Grease Monkey
7. Hot Rod Honeymoon
8. Line Dancing With Monkeys
9. JB's Blues
10. Pay Me No Mind (Jeff Beck Remix)
11. My Thing
12. Bulgaria
13. Why Lord Oh Why?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8771 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-04
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Jeff finds Jeff Beck taking a further step forward, just as 2000's You Had It Coming showed Beck to be a man on a mission to combine his renowned guitar wizardry with contemporary electronica. Now collaborating with the likes of Apollo 440 ("Grease Monkey", "Hot Rod Honeymoon") and Splattercell ("Plan B"), he refines his use of new grooves while still mercilessly wringing new sounds from his trusty axe--an instrument he often treats like an organic sampler. This is not to say he doesn't rock out.

The opening "So What" is thunderous in the extreme, while "Trouble Man" is a strange and edgy metal. There are other eclectic excursions, too: "Bulgaria" is a stab at traditional folk, complete with orchestra, while "JB's Blues", as the title suggest, takes Beck right back to his introspective influences. Where You Had It Coming featured the occasional vocals of Imogen Heap, here there are none, other than sampled pronouncements. But this doesn't detract from what is clearly a soulful personal document. --Dominic Wills

CD Description
'Jeff' is the follow up to 2001's largely instrumental album, 'You Had It Coming', by the Surrey-born guitar virtuoso. After nearly forty years in the business, Beck has released nearly twenty solo studio albums, enjoyed six top 40 hits, and provided guitar on albums by artists such as The Yardbirds, Donovan, Kate Bush, Mick Jagger and Jon Bon Jovi.

Customer Reviews

"Jeff" proves the last two were no fluke!
Jeff Beck’s a rarity! A fully paid-up member of the 60’s rock guitar aristocracy, he has always been at least one step ahead of the pack. Never content to mark time or rehash old ideas, Beck had hardly finished drawing up the blueprint for 70’s hard rock and metal when he was off into fusion hyperspace with Jan Hammer. And always, whether working on his own projects or playing hired gun for the likes of Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner or Mick Jagger, Jeff NEVER sounds like anyone but himself!! Anyway, that was then! So where do we find his restless spirit in this new century? Deep in techno territory, totally immersed in sounds normally associated with under 25s and not only sounding completely at home but obviously having a blast!
More in the vein of "You had it coming" than "Who Else?" this one floors it from the off with furious beats and nasty automotive tones abounding and the guitar poking through in all the right places. As other reviewers have noted, the guitar plays a more textural, organic role on many of the tracks: witness the tasty slide riffs on "Plan B" and the in-the-pocket, chicken-fried funk of "Pay Me No Mind". But just when you think you’ve got a handle on the man, Beck pulls out an ecstatic solo like those in "Seasons" or "Bulgaria" and clean takes your breath away! Have mercy!! Six strings speaking in tongues - Carlos himself would be proud!!
I defy any player of ANY generation to produce anything as cutting edge and totally genuine as this - make no mistake, this 59 year old rocker’s on a roll!

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Pure Beckstacy!
Up front I want to say that I've always been a bit suspicious of the reputation this man carries. I've heard plenty Beck material but never really wanted to go back for more. I've played guitar for 25 years and I like a wide variety of styles, from Vai and Satch to SRV, Santana and Chris Rea.

So, to the album. After only one spin, suddenly it's all clear. I reckon this stuff easily surpasses EVERYTHING I've ever heard. Beck manages to encompass all my preferred guitar tastes and styles and still come up with something new and unexpected. There's a wealth of great tones, textures and flourishes here, probably more than most guitarists manage in a whole career. Beck isn't a technical virtuoso (or chooses not to let it show) but injects everything with amazing amounts of unique feel and bags of style.

Approach this album with an open ear and an open mind, you won't be disappointed. I'd give it six stars if I could...

If the voice don't say it..........
...the guitar will play it.

In the world of the anodyne, a few mavericks still exist, refusing to compromise, pushing at and warping the boundaries of music. Jeff Beck is one such, and Jeff is an example of his work.

Presumably it would be easy for a master craftsman such as he to ply a nostalgic trade under the legend monicker. Interviews with Jeff have revealed his disaffection with Western popular Music and its easy to hear underground and World music influences infused throughout Jeff, itself an obvious development from YHIC.

Jeff is probably not everyone's cup of tea, and many will probably lament its refusal to try and please everyone. It's loud, mainly dark, and occasionally padded. But in my opinion it's a masterpiece - Porc-u-pine I have to listen to sitting down - and I cant wait for the next challenge.