Audio Magazine (7/94, p.72) - Sound: B+ / Performance: B+ - "...[Was] has created big beat instrumentals, turning the Bo Diddley rhythms into a jazz vehicle and evoking the sound of KIND OF BLUE-era Miles Davis...If this quintet tried to make it as a real jazz band, they'd be monsters...'
BACKBEAT is the jazz score to the film based on the life of Stu Sutcliffe, the original lost Beatle, who played bass with the Beatles during their nights on the Hamburg club circuit.
Personnel: David McMurry (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Eric Reed (piano); Don Was (acoustic bass).
All songs written by Don Was.