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| Don't Take Your Time |
| Erin Bode |
| első megjelenés éve: 2004 |
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| (2004)
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| 3.740 Ft
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| 1. | Don't Take Your Time
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| 2. | Here, There and Everywhere
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| 3. | In the Pines
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| 4. | Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
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| 5. | Time After Time
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| 6. | But Not for Me
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| 7. | Junior and Julie
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| 8. | If It's Magic
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| 9. | I've Never Been in Love Before
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| 10. | You
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| 11. | I Walk a Little Faster
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| 12. | Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You
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| 13. | Count Your Blessings
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| 14. | Don't Take Your Time [Multimedia Track]
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Jazz
Erin Bode, vocals
Bruce Barth, piano and fender rhodes
Larry Grenadier, bass
Montez Coleman, drums
Steve Nelson, vibes
Adam Rogers, electric and acoustic guitar
Meg Okura, violin
Adam Maness, piano
Sydney Rodway, tenor saxophone
Jerry Barnes, background vocals
* Brian Montgomery - Assistant Engineer
* David Baker - Engineer, Mixing
* Dena Katz - Photography
* Jimmy Katz - Photography
* Katsuhiko Naito - Mastering
* Peter Doris - Assistant Engineer
* Pressley Jacobs - Art Direction, Design
Erin Bode's national recording debut for Maxjazz is an impressive affair. The young singer, who is gifted with a sweet and clear voice, wanted to cover her favorite songs, so here she delves into rock, bluegrass, pop ballads, R&B, and standards from the Great American Songbook, and is backed by a very supportive rhythm section consisting of pianist Bruce Barth, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Montez Coleman. Most of the first five tracks are eye-openers. She confidently opens the CD with a country-flavored original, "Don't Take Your Time," co-written and jointly arranged with Adam Maness, who also plays piano on this track (a bonus CD-Rom video track of a live studio performance of "Don't Take Your Time" is also included). The Beatles' "Here, There and Everywhere" has been performed in a jazz setting before, but Bode is one of a just a few jazz singers to record it, and Barth's imaginative arrangement is a great improvement over the typically overblown charts used elsewhere. She then switches gears to tackle Bill Monroe's mournful bluegrass ballad "In the Pines," multi-tracking a backing vocal in spots, and adding Adam Rogers' delicious acoustic slide guitar and Meg Okura's gritty violin. Rogers is also on-hand for Bode's funky take of Bob Dylan's "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You." However, her performance of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" sticks a little too close to the pop world, especially with the harmony vocals of Jerry Barnes. Hardcore jazz fans will likely gravitate toward the standards, as that's where she is at her best. Her lightly swinging take of "But Not for Me" features Grenadier's unusual bassline and the inventive Steve Nelson on vibes. She captures the essence of Matt Dennis' sentimental ballad "Junior and Julie," while she displays the skills of an actress in the show tune "I've Never Been in Love Before." Barth's bluesy piano provides the perfect setting for her playful interpretation of "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You." Eclectic as Erin Bode's taste in music is, her ability to effectively integrate such a diverse range of songs into a single release should be highly commended; she is very deserving of nationwide exposure.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Erin Bode
Active Decade: '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Vocal Jazz
Erin Bode (her surname is pronounced as two syllables, each with long vowels) is a singer who is comfortable mixing jazz standards with well-known pop tunes and classics from the Great American Songbook in a typical performance. The daughter of a Lutheran pastor who was raised in a musical household in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, Bode sang in a church choir as a teenager before discovering jazz and big-band music while in high school in St. Louis. She also studied trumpet and participated in theater, eventually deciding to pursue a music degree. Starting at the University of Minnesota, she transferred back to the more intimate setting of Webster University in St. Louis, where she benefited from the tutelage of jazz pianist and singer Christine Hitt. She joined the jazz vocal ensemble at Webster and also sat in with Hitt during the pianist's local gigs at her instructor's invitation. Bode earned her degree in music and foreign languages, remaining in St. Louis to play engagements in the area. Following the release of a self-produced CD (Requests) in 2001, which included a locally popular version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," her career took off. Receiving heavy local airplay, she was signed to the St. Louis- based Maxjazz label, which released her CD Don't Take Your Time in 2004, and included an updated version of "Time After Time" that was inspired by the late singer Eva Cassidy. This CD gave her much greater national exposure. Erin Bode has frequently been compared by critics and jazz radio hosts to both Cassidy and the young jazz superstar Norah Jones for her willingness to explore a wide range of material in a fresh, often subtle manner.
---Ken Dryden, All Music Guide |
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