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| Close Your Eyes |
| Kurt Elling |
| első megjelenés éve: 1995 |
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| (1995)
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| 3.726 Ft
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| 1. | Close Your Eyes
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| 2. | Dolores Dream
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| 3. | Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
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| 4. | Salome, (Hide The)
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| 5. | Married Blues
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| 6. | Storyteller Experiencing Total Confusion
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| 7. | Never Say Goodbye (For Jodi)
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| 8. | Those Clouds Are Heavy, You Dig?
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| 9. | Wait 'Till You See Her
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| 10. | Hurricane
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| 11. | Now It Is Time That Gods Came Walking Out
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| 12. | Never Never Land
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| 13. | Remembering Veronica
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Jazz
Kurt Elling (vocals)
Laurence Hobgood (Piano)
Eric Hochberg (bass)
Rob Amster(bass)
Paul Wertico (drums)
For his debut recording, Chicago vocalist Kurt Elling pushes the envelope, challenging listeners and his musicians with beat poetry, ranting, and his Mark Murphy-ish singing. There's quite a bit of dramatist/actor in Elling, although the romantic in him is also pretty prevalent. Acting much like a tenor saxophonist, Elling can wail and shout, expound on social themes, and scat like a demon. Help from the extraordinary pianist Laurence Hobgood, bassists Eric Hochberg, and Rob Amster, and drummer Paul Wertico inspires Elling to even higher plateaus, while tenor saxophone foils Ed Peterson and Von Freeman appear separately on three of the 13 tracks.
Elling writes a ton of lyrics. His take on Wayne Shorter's "Dolores" is "Dolores Dream," on which the singer speaks of Chi-Town in terms both favorable and not so, with a maniacal swing following his a cappella intro. His scatting is amazing both on this piece and on an exploratory take of Herbie Hancock's "Hurricane." As far as pure singing goes, "All the Sad Young Men" is graciously rendered and "Open Your Eyes" opens with a tender piano intro, flowing into bass/vocal wistfulness and a mid tempo romp. Elling extrapolates on the original lyric and scats feverishly on the bridge. He is at his most sexual on the slinky bossa "Never Say Goodbye" and the ballad "Storyteller Experiencing Total Confusion," with Peterson's sax shyly filling in cracks of fear and disillusionment. This is as auspicious a vocal jazz debut as the world has heard. Strap in. |
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