segunda-feira, 9 de novembro de 2009

Rosemary Clooney - Do You Miss New York? (1992)

Artist - Rosemary Clooney
Album - Do You Miss New York?
Rating - 4 Stars
Release Date - 1993
Recording Date - Sep 14, 1992-Sep 17, 1992
Label - Concord Jazz
Genre/Styles
Jazz
Vocal Jazz
Show Tunes
Ballads
Standards
Traditional Pop

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - Mp3
Size - 121 mB


1. Do You Miss New York?
2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
3. As Long As I Live
4. May I Come In
5. Route 66 7:47
6. A Beautiful Friendship
7. It's Only A Paper Moon
8. I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
9. I Wish You Love 3:02
10. I Get Along Without You Very Well
11. We'll Be Together Again

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Review by Scott Yanow

As is usual for Rosemary Clooney's very consistent string of Concord albums, this is a jazz-oriented set with the highly appealing singer interpreting veteran standards from the '30s and '40s plus a couple of newer songs (Dave Frishberg's "Do You Miss New York?" and "I Wish You Love"). Using a fine sextet with her favorite horn players (tenor man Scott Hamilton and cornetist Warren Vaché) plus her musical director/pianist John Oddo and guitarist Buck Pizzarelli, Clooney is heard in top form. John Pizzarelli makes a guest appearance, sharing the vocal and playing guitar on "It's Only a Paper Moon"; other highlights include "As Long as I Live," "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues," and "We'll Be Together Again." Recommended.

John Pizzarelli - Meets the Beatles (1998)

Artist - John Pizzarelli
Album - Meets the Beatles
Rating - 4 Stars
Release Date - Aug 25, 1998
Label - RCA
Time - 42:14
Genre/Styles
Jazz
Neo-Bop
Pop/Rock

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - MP3
Size - 85 Mb

1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. I've Just Seen a Face
3. Here Comes the Sun
4. Things We Said Today
5. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
6. Eleanor Rigby
7. And I Love Her
8. When I'm Sixty-Four
9. Oh! Darling
10. Get Back
11. The Long and Winding Road
12. For No One [Hidden Tracks]

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Review by Jonathan Widran

Beatles fans love to explain that the key to the successful partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was their contrasting songwriting personalities -- Lennon was the tongue in cheek sardonic wit, McCartney the earnest balladeer. On John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles, a sharply conceived tribute which sets the duo's classics in a jazz trio with big-band arrangements, the singer/guitarist hits the mark more often when he's taking on the Lennon persona. He approaches "Cant' Buy Me Love," "When I'm 64," and "Get Back" with a playful wink, jumping off his speedy melody lines and the rising brass sections for extended improvisational tradeoffs with pianist Ray Kennedy, and adding colorful touches like scatting and even ad libbing his own lyrical verses based on the originals. Likewise, he attacks the all-instrumental "Eleanor Rigby" with a jumpy, swinging aggression. Pizzarelli, however, becomes overly schmaltzy in presenting ballads like "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Long and Winding Road" too seriously, with maudlin, straightforward arrangements that grind the party to a halt. The one exception is the more percussive "Oh Darling," where his intense vocal helps the tune rise above the hotel lounge mentality.

quinta-feira, 24 de setembro de 2009

Caetano Veloso - Cinema Transcendental (1979)

Artist - Caetano Veloso
Album - Cinema Transcendental
Release Date - 1979
Recording Date - Jul 1979-Sep 1979
Label - Verve
Time - 40:04
Genre/Styles
Latin
MPB

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - MP3
Size - 90,9 MB

1 Lua de São Jorge Veloso 3:57
2 Oração Ao Tempo Veloso 3:25
3 Beleza Pura Veloso 3:30
4 Menino Do Rio Veloso 2:28
5 Vampiro Mautner 4:03
6 Elegia Cavalcanti, De Campos 2:19
7 Trilhos Urbanos Veloso 2:46
8 Louco Por Você Veloso 7:40
9 Cajuína Veloso 2:20
10 Aracaju Cantuária, Improta, Veloso 2:23
11 Badauê Do Catendê, DoCatende 1:32
12 Os Meninos Dançam Veloso 3:14

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Review by Alvaro Neder


One of Caetano Veloso's last quasi-acoustic albums, this one is dedicated to Brazilian grooves (with the exception of a couple of reggae tracks). The album has been very well spun, and several tracks were hits: "Lua de São Jorge," "Oração ao Tempo," "Badauê" (Bahian grooves), "Cajuína" (Northeastern xote), "Menino do Rio" (pop ballad), "Elegia" (bolero), "Trilhos Urbanos" (reggae), "Louco por Você" (Carioca samba). There are also other tracks whose experimental character prevented them from being hits, but they still constitute excellent material. Delicate and also swinging arrangements, these are excellent compositions by an artist still in full-steam creative impetus.

Caetano Veloso - Jóia (1975)

Artist - Caetano Veloso
Album - Jóia
Release Date - 1975
Label - Polygram Brazil
Genre/Styles
Latin
MPB

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - MP3
Size - 71,6 MB

1 Minha Mulher
2 Guá
3 Pelos Olhos
4 Asa, Asa
5 Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua
6 Canto Do Povo de Um Lugar
7 Pipoca Moderna
8 Jóia
9 Help!
10 Gravidade
11 Tudo Tudo Tudo
12 Na Asa Do Vento
13 Escapulo

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Review by Philip Jandovský

Jóia was released simultaneously with Qualquer Coisa in 1975, and bears resemblance both to that album and Caetano Veloso's previous and highly experimental studio album Araçá Azul. As on Qualquer Coisa, the sound is quiet, soft, and mainly acoustic. If anything, Jóia comes across as even more soft and quiet than Qualquer Coisa. There are many very beautiful melodies on the record, and two of the finest are "Lua, Lua, Lua" and "Guá." Unlike Qualquer Coisa, almost all of the songs here are Veloso originals, but there is also an unusual interpretation of "Help!," the famous Beatles song. The soft general tone of the album and some experimental tracks perhaps make Jóia less directly accessible than other Veloso classics, like for example his next album, Bicho. Nevertheless, the album is a great one and, to many people, one of the best Veloso has ever recorded.

quarta-feira, 16 de setembro de 2009

VA - Across the Universe DeLuxe Edition (2007)

Artist - Original Soundtrack
Album - Across the Universe [Deluxe Version]
Rating - 3 Stars
Release Date - Oct 1, 2007
Label - Interscope
Type - Soundtrack
Genre/Styles
Soundtrack
Soundtracks
Pop/Rock

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - MP3
Size - 145 Mb


CD1
1. Girl - Jim Sturgess 1:04
2. Hold Me Tight - Evan Rachel Wood 2:35
3. All My Loving - Jim Sturgess 2:26
4. I Want To Hold Your Hand - T.V. Carpio 2:45
5. With A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Anderson 3:11
6. It Won't Be Long - Evan Rachel Wood 2:16
7. I've Just Seen A Face - Jim Sturgess 1:50
8. Let It Be - Carol Woods 3:46
9. Come Together - Joe Cocker 4:27
10. If I Fell - Evan Rachel Wood 2:38
11. Dear Prudence - Dana Fuchs 5:18
12. Flying - The Secret Machines 3:55
13. Blue Jay Way - The Secret Machines 4:42

CD2
1. I Am The Walrus - Bono 4:43
2. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - Eddie Izzard 2:40
3. Because - Evan Rachel Wood 2:29
4. Something - Jim Sturgess 2:59
5. Oh! Darling - Dana Fuchs 2:29
6. Strawberry Fields Forever - Jim Sturgess 3:37
7. Revolution - Jim Sturgess 2:17
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Martin Luther McCoy 4:02
9. Across The Universe - Jim Sturgess 3:27
10. Helter Skelter - Dana Fuchs 3:41
11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Joe Anderson 3:06
12. Black Bird - Evan Rachel Wood 3:03
13. Hey Jude - Joe Anderson 4:10
14. Don't Let Me Down - Dana Fuchs 3:05
15. All You Need Is Love - Jim Sturgess 3:17
16. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Bono 4:23

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Following the release of the original soundtrack by just a matter of a month (thereby ensuring the irritation of some fans), the deluxe version of Across the Universe is a double-disc, 29-track set containing almost all of the songs featured in Julie Taymor's film, all presented in the order they are in the film. The very fact that this expanded version appeared so closely after the original single-disc soundtrack is bound to confuse fans of the film, but what will confuse them even more is that there is another double-disc version of Across the Universe that contains all 31 songs featured in the film, including "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road." That longer version only appeared at Best Buy and iTunes, which is frustrating because anybody who loves this film enough to have all the music should be able to acquire it easily, especially since the single-disc version really has all the noteworthy moments that will interest casual fans. So, this is a compromised version -- one that is just close enough to having it all to seem


Editorial Reviews by Amazon.com

Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.--Jerry McCulley

domingo, 13 de setembro de 2009

Brad Shepik - Human Activity Suite (2009)

Artist - Brad Shepik
Album - Human Activity Suite
Release Date - Feb 10, 2009
Recording Date - Jun 14, 2008-Jun 15, 2008
Label - Songlines
Genre
Jazz

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - MP3
Size - 158 MB

*01.- Lima (South America)
*02.- Blindspot (North America)
*03.- Human Activity
*04.- Stir (Antarctica)
*05.- Not So Far (Australia)
*06.- Current
*07.- Carbonic
*08.- Blue Marble (Africa)
*09.- By a Foot (Europe)
*10.- Waves (Asia)

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Deep-blue oceans, airbrushed clouds, flaking dabs of greens receding into desolate plains... Remember the first time you saw a picture of the Earth? Remember that feeling? Did you know one can cover the Earth with one's thumb when standing from the Moon? Defenseless in the pitch-black, still silence of the Universe, our home—at least, that of the time of a few nanoseconds stolen from eternity—now faces more threats from its own inhabitants than from other celestial bodies possibly hitting its trajectory around the Sun. Singing nature's beauty is nothing new for artists. Though very much an act of creation and expression, music making remains fundamentally one of communion, not only between its partakers, but also with the immediate environment in which sounds are created and travelled. Echoing chants and carrying them over whispering air streams to die deep into the deserts of our souls, nature, in turn, forever keeps singing the artists' songs. To quote an old Satchmo classic, a wonderful world it is indeed. In his ode Human Activity Suite—which, it must be noted, possesses a very Greenpeace conference-like subtitle, "Sounding a Response to Climate Change"—guitarist Brad Shepik caps his longstanding concern with the hot-button issue. The harsh realism of the subject matter and title notwithstanding, nothing is a bore in this musical missive. Whereas many of his predecessors romanticize the delivery of their message with New Age-y hogwash, the New York City-based ethnomusicologist/composer presents an imaginative travelogue-type program that is as moving melodically and harmonically as it is sonically. From the hypnotic rounds of Shepik's tambura in "Blue Marble" to the slow movements of Antarctic ice depicted in the processional "Stir," by way of the dancing, Klezmer-inflected "Waves" and Gary Versace's folk-y, South American-tinged accordion on "Lima" and melodious maneuvering in "Not So Far," the quintet sticks a pin on each the seven continents and peppers its worldly excursion of three programmatic pieces about the factors and effects of climate change. Making the trip with Shepik and uber-creative pianist Versace are veterans bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey, as well as trumpeter Ralph Alessi, whose pungent, brassy tone blends rather well with the leader's Dave Fiuczynski-reminiscent approach to guitar sound and playing. As noted in the liner notes, music, as one of the most elevated mechanisms of communication, can raise awareness and spur to action. And for that, as for the seriousness which threads through the project's artistic direction and extra-musical message, Brad Shepik deserves one giant thumbs up.(allaboutJazz) Personnel: *Brad Shepik: electric and acoustic guitars, tambura, electric saz *Ralph Alessi: trumpet *Gary Versace: piano, organ, accordion *Drew Gress: bass *Tom Rainey: drums

domingo, 23 de agosto de 2009

Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said (1992)

Artist - Lenny Kravitz
Album - Mama Said
Rating - 4 Stars
Release Date - Apr 2, 1991
Label - Virgin
Time - 52:38
Type - Explicit Lyrics
Genre/Styles
Pop/Rock
Neo-Psychedelia
American Trad Rock
Neo-Soul
Album Rock

Bitrate - 320 Kbps
Quality - Mp3
Size - 123 MB

1 Fields Of Joy
2 Always On The Run
3 Stand By My Woman
4 It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over
5 More Than Anything In This World
6 What Goes Around Comes Around
7 The Diference Is Why
8 Stop Draggin' Around
9 Flowers For Zoe
10 Fields Of Joy (Reprise)
11 All I Ever Wanted
12 When The Morning Turns To Night
13 What The... Are We Saying?
14 Butterfly

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Moving forward a couple years from the psychedelic fixations of his debut, Mama Said finds Lenny Kravitz in the early '70s, trying to graft Curtis Mayfield and Jimi Hendrix influences to his Prince and Lennon obsessions. This time around, he synthesizes his influences better; it's essentially a seamless record, with all of its classic rock homages so carefully produced that it sounds as if it could have been released in 1972. Kravitz's songcraft has gotten better as well, with the swirling Philly soul of "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" and the rampaging Sly Stone-meets-Hendrix "Always on the Run" standing out as instantly addictive singles. Still, some of the joy that informed Let Love Rule has worn off, largely because it's more polished and studied than its predecessor. That, however, doesn't prevent Mama Said from being another thoroughly enjoyable guilty pleasure -- its sweet soul and fuzzy hard rock are slyly seductive. Ironically for such an inviting record, Mama Said is Kravitz's divorce album, yet it never quite conveys any true pain or emotion, since he puts sound over substance. Essentially, the lyrics are afterthoughts, but with a record as immaculately produced and sonically pleasurable as Mama Said, it doesn't really matter that it's talking loud and saying nothing, because it sounds good while it's talking. Description Sometimes it's fun to take the albums of latter-day rockers and play spot-the-influence, and on Mama Said, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. "Always on the Run," with its punchy horns and emphatic vocals, is cribbed from Sly Stone. "What Goes Around Comes Around," with its understated arrangement and Kravitz's falsetto, is straight out of Superfly-era Curtis Mayfield. "Stand By My Woman" and "All I Ever Wanted," meanwhile, are so directly copped from John Lennon--lyrically, sonically, attitudinally--that it ought to be actionable. Younger fans might not care about any of this, of course, becausemore… in and of themselves, Kravitz's songs are tuneful, and they do rock. --Daniel Durchholz