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| What the World Needs Now Is Love |
| Laura Theodore |
| első megjelenés éve: 2005 |
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| (2005)
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| 4.161 Ft
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| 1. | Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues
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| 2. | I'm in the Mood for Love
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| 3. | Come Rain or Come Shine
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| 4. | How Deep Is the Ocean?
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| 5. | Fever
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| 6. | The Very Thought of You
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| 7. | Don't Get Around Much Anymore
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| 8. | What the World Needs Now Is Love
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| 9. | 'S Wonderful
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| 10. | You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mamma at All)
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| 11. | Why Should I Care
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| 12. | A-Tisket, A-Tasket/The Lady Is a Tramp
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Jazz / Contemporary Jazz
Laura Theodore - Arranger, Producer
Bob Albanese - Arranger
Brian Murphy - Piano, Soloist
Chuck Bergeron - Arranger, Bass (Acoustic)
Dave Wolpe - Arranger
Doug Michels - Soloist, Trumpet
Herman "Teddy" Mulet - Soloist, Trumpet
John Kricker - Trombone
Roger Holmes - Arranger
* Andy Ebberbach - Executive Producer, Mixing
* Michael Fourens - Engineer
Laura Theodore has one of the most striking voices in jazz -- a clear mezzo that drops unexpectedly into a rich and throaty tenor and soars upward again at the drop of a beat. Her theatrical training is fully in evidence on her fifth album as a leader, What the World Needs Now Is Love; she takes such hoary material as "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "Come Rain or Come Shine" and makes it sound like something new and surprising. Her rendition of "Fever," on the other hand, brings no new insights to the song, but she manages to deepen and broaden its emotional depth by the sheer power of her voice. The album's highlight is a strangely lighthearted arrangement of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." More skillful production would have made this album an unalloyed pleasure; as it is, unfortunately, the sound tends to be compressed, claustrophobic, and brassy, especially on the songs with orchestral accompaniment. Theodore's voice is shown off to best advantage in those moments when it isn't fighting the orchestra for space; the voice-and-bass duo arrangement of "How Deep Is the Ocean," for example. Lovers of vocal jazz will enjoy this album, but those with a more casual interest may find themselves distracted by its marginal sonic qualities.
---Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Laura Theodore
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Torch Songs, Vocal Jazz
Cleveland, OH native Laura Theodore is a jazz-oriented singer with blues, rock and R&B leanings; she is also a talented actress who is known for her on-stage portrayals of the late rocker Janis Joplin. Although jazz has been Theodore's primary focus in the ‘90s and 2000s--at least as a recording artist--she is far from a jazz snob or a jazz purist and has a long history of performing rock, blues, R&B, cabaret and traditional pop. The singer/actress has brought a wide variety of influences to the studio, and not all of them are people who embraced straightahead jazz exclusively. Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee are influences; there are also hints of Ruth Brown, Bette Midler and Nancy Wilson in her work. (That's Nancy Wilson the pop/jazz singer, not Nancy Wilson of the hard rock/arena rock band Heart).
Theodore was born and raised in Cleveland, OH, where she began acting in local theater as a pre-adolescent. After graduating from high school, she entered Ohio University on a drama scholarship but ended up dropping out of college and touring the United States and Canada with a rock band she put together. Then, Theodore spent some time in Denver and, after that, Boston, where she studied jazz composition at the South Shore Music Conservatory before moving to the New York City area. The ‘90s found Theodore keeping busy with a variety of activities in the Big Apple, where she sang jazz as well as rock and took part in many theatrical activities. On stage, Theodore has portrayed Janis Joplin more than once--first in the off-Broadway production Beehive, then in the play Love, Janis (which found her working with Jerry Ragovoy, a well known songwriter/producer who gave us "Piece of My Heart," "Cry Baby" and other songs associated with Joplin). Another one of Theodore's rock activities of the ‘90s was the band Q, which she co-founded with guitarist Larry Mitchell and had a small New York cult following during that decade. The Ohio native has also done her share of jingles for commercials, including commercials for Jordache Jeans, Playdoh and Nick at Night Television.
The diverse singer/actress' first album, Tonight's The Night, came out on the independent Bearcat label in 1995; subsequent releases included Live at Vartan Jazz on the Vartan Jazz label, We're Only Human (which was more of an adult contemporary project) on Etherean Music and What Is This Thing Called Jazz? on Bearcat. In May 2003, Theodore's fifth album, What the World Needs Now Is Love (which she produced herself), came out on Bearcat.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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