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| Over and Over |
| Erin Bode |
| első megjelenés éve: 2006 |
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| (2006)
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| 3.740 Ft
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| 1. | Holiday
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| 2. | Over and Over
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| 3. | Graceland
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| 4. | June
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| 5. | Feet Off the Ground
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| 6. | Long, Long Time
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| 7. | Send Me Up a Sign
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| 8. | St. Louis Song
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| 9. | Perfect World
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| 10. | Something More
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| 11. | Holding Back the Years
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| 12. | With the Radio On
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| 13. | Alone Together
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| 14. | Home Again
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Jazz
Erin Bode, vocals
Adam Maness, piano and fender rhodes, hammond b-3, acoustic guitar
Syd Rodway, bass
Chris Higginbottom, drums
Josh Mease, Acoustic Guitar and Vocals
Seamus Blake, tenor saxophone
Dave Eggar, cello
* Dena Katz - Photography
* Erin Bode - Liner Notes
* Jimmy Katz - Photography
* Katsuhiko Naito - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
* Max Ross - Assistant Engineer
* Pressley Jacobs - Art Direction, Design
Although jazz-pop singer Erin Bode most often gets compared to Norah Jones, a closer point of comparison is the British indie duo Everything But the Girl. Although he doesn't get front-cover credit, Over and Over is effectively a duet album between Bode's warmly appealing, low-key vocals and her primary collaborator, Adam Maness, whose piano and acoustic guitar are at the heart of the arrangements and who co-wrote nearly all the songs. Maness is Ben Watt to Bode's Tracey Thorn, an empathetic collaborator rooted both in cool jazz and acoustic folk, and the pair create a hybrid of the two styles matched to a fondness for the reflective side of singer/songwriter pop that's best revealed on the album's two pop covers. Paul Simon's "Graceland" is transformed from the South African country ramble into something closer to Joni Mitchell's late-'70s fusion period, and Simply Red's near-forgotten ballad "Holding Back the Years" is overhauled from the unashamedly slick chart pop of the original into a stark duet performance of Maness' close-miked, echoing acoustic guitar and Bode's haunted, mournful vocals that changes the entire feel of the tune. Those tracks aside, however, it's the BodeManess originals that are the most intriguing part of this quiet but engrossing album, particularly "Send Me Up a Sign" (the most overtly Everything But the Girl-like song on the album) and the utterly charming, winsome lost-love tune "With the Radio On," which wouldn't sound out of place on a mid-'90s twee pop single by the likes of Softies or Lois until Seamus Blake's playful sax solo shows up. That cross-genre appeal is what makes Over and Over such a good record: Erin Bode isn't interested in staying in one particular stylistic box.
---Stewart Mason, 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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