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| Smooth Jazz 2 - The Eessential Album |
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Aaron Neville, Al Green, Alyson Williams, Angie Stone, Atlantic Starr, Bill Withers, Bob James, Bobby Womack, Curtis Mayfield, Denys Baptiste, Dinah Washington, Don Grusin, Frank McComb, George Benson, Grover Washington, Jr., Grupo Cabana, Incognito, Inner Shade, Jamie Cullum, Jazz Jamaica Allstars, Juliet Roberts, Kymaera, Leon Ware, Nathan Haines, Nina Simone, Niteflyte, Omar, Ray Charles, Shakatak, The Brand New Heavies, Vanessa Freeman |
első megjelenés éve: 2008
120 perc |
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Jazz / Smooth Jazz
If you like your jazz brewed to a deep, mellow blend, you've come to the right CD. Smooth Jazz 2 - the essential album offers a luxurious double-disc serving of old and new friends, getting their groove on with a generous selection of today's standards and tomorrow's classics. Step inside for the most soulful grooves in jazz and the most jazzy grooves in soul!
When key ingredients are blended together, they say the effect can sometimes be underwhelmingly watered down. That might be true when you put too much tonic in your gin, but it's as wrong as can be when we're talking about putting jazz and soul in the mixer. When it's done right, they come out sounding like a dream, and this is where you get to hear it..
Welcome, then, to 'Smooth Jazz 2 - the essential album', on which 31 gorgeous jazz-soul concoctions have taken our taste test and passed with flying colours. From the soul fraternity, you're among old friends and stars straddling four decades, like Bobby Womack, Angie Stone and the Reverend himself, Al Green. There's fantastic music too by some of the artists who flavoured their jazz with a healthy spoonful of soulfulness, like George Benson, the Brand New Heavies, Juliet Roberts and Incognito.
We get to spend time with the unforgettable, unclassifiable Ray Charles and the utterly distinctive voices of Nina Simone, Curtis Mayfield, Dinah Washington and Aaron Neville. But this is the soundtrack for a 21st century party, so we've also put names like Jamie Cullum, Frank McComb, Vanessa Freeman and plenty others on the guest list.
CD 1
01. Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You
On the shortlist of the coolest, cleverest samples used on disc, this slice of Angie's delectable 'Mahogany Soul' references the O'Jays' classic 'Back Stabbers'.
02. Curtis Mayfield - Give Me Your Love
Like Simone, the persuasive powers of Mayfield's recordings ensure that he's bookmarked in our hearts in spite of his passing. This urgently passionate piece comes from his classic 1972 'Superfly' soundtrack.
03. Nathan Haines feat. Marlena Shaw - Squire For Hire
New Zealand sax maestro Haines puts a big slab of cool funk in his jazz on this title track from his 2003 album, featuring the great Marlena Shaw. As the lady says, “You cats sure got a groove goin' on here...”
04. Vanessa Freeman - Dawning Of A New Day
New British prospect Freeman's previous collaborations include Reel Peoples, Bugz In The Attic and 4Hero. But the album 'Shades', from which this comes, represents her solo debut, and a very promising one.
05. Frank McComb - Shine
The Cleveland-born vocalist, first widely noted for his mid-'90s work with Branford Marsalis in Buckshot LeFonque, is developing a distinguished solo catalogue. This song opens his 2002 album 'The Truth'.
06. The Brand New Heavies - Dream Come True
From 1992, this is the first UK Top 40 entry for the acid jazz troubadours…
07. Incognito - Who Needs Love
'Bluey' Maunick's fluid collective rarely gets the full-on appreciation it deserves for its epic adventures in jazz and soul over 25 years. Here's the title song of a 2003 remix album.
08. Bob James - Feel Like Making Love
Mellow mood jazz from the great fusion keyboard player's 'One' album back in 1974, just a few months after Roberta Flack had completed her climb to Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the original.
09. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
One of the true unshakeable landmarks of 1970s soul, chosen as 'our tune' by generations of lovers. Al's voice and Willie Mitchell's production make it sound as fresh today as ever.
10. Bobby Womack - California Dreaming
Not to harp on about advertising, but the recent Saab spot shone a hugely welcome spotlight on Womack's brilliant interpretation of the Mamas and Papas' classic, itself a top 20 US soul hit for Bobby in '69…
11. Grover Washington Jr. feat. Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us
Grover's mellow sax is seductive enough on its own, but the combination with Withers' relaxing tones is truly irresistible. A huge Number 2 pop hit in the US in 1981.
12. Shakatak - Silver Falls
British chart fixtures of the 1980s, still present and correct in the new millennium. Here's one of the vocal tracks on Shakatak's 2001 album 'Under Your Spell'.
13. Atlantic Starr - All Because Of You
Like Alyson Williams, Atlantic Starr are remembered for their crossover pop hits of the 1980s. Their profile may have slipped since then but they continue to fly the American flag for smooth soul with this track featuring vocalist Rachel Oliver.
14. Inner Shade - Mood To Mood
The perfect after-dinner treat to follow Incognito is this track from Bluey's 1998 side project, Inner Shade's '4 Corners' album. The Latin jazz groove features vocals by Incognito's Maysa Leek.
15. Grupo Cabana - Triste
A track with an authentically Latin jazz flavour from Grupo Cabana.
CD 2
01. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy
The quintessentially urbane female jazz vocalist with one of her landmark performances - whether you knew it through a Levi's jeans commercial or for decades before that.
02. Jamie Cullum - It Ain't Necessarily So
The young English phenomenon comes from jazz, but doesn't play within anyone's guidelines, and makes this pre-war favourite his own.
03. Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Nina's death in April 2003 has hardly dimmed her powerful, unique presence. Here's one of her trademark songs, again introduced to a new young audience via a TV commercial, for Chanel No 5 in 1987.
04. George Benson - Sunny
'Bad' Benson's version of the much-covered Bobby Hebb gem was part of his 'Giblet Gravy' album for Verve in 1968, years before he reinvented himself as a soul romancer.
05. Nite Flyte - Open Your Heart
Classy midtempo groove from East London jazz guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Tony Campbell's group, included on their 'Ascension' album.
06. Kymaera - Rhiannon
On paper, it may be a surprise to see a Fleetwood Mac classic on a smooth jazz compilation, but guitarist Simon James's UK collective restyle the Stevie Nicks song here for acoustic guitar and soprano sax…
07. Jazz Jamaica All-Stars feat. Juliet Roberts - Walk On By
We all know the song, but the Bacharach/David staple took on a new hue in 2001 on 'Massive', by the collective who take jazz to the Caribbean. Vocals are by Juliet Roberts, which takes us in a seamless segue to...
08. Juliet Roberts - Good Morning Heartache
The widely experienced and versatile British vocalist delivers a typically assured version of an exquisite song. This was a bonus track on her Dune album 'Beneath The Surface'
09. Omar - There's Nothing Like This
'Sip a glass of cold champagne wine...' and with or without the bubbles, there are few tracks that can put you in a summer mood like this one, at any time of year.
10. Leon Ware with Don Grusin - How Insensitive
The 2001 collaboration between these great names in soul and jazz respectively was called 'Candlelight' and featured this tasty cover of a Jobim song which has been interpreted by everyone from Tony Bennett to Petula Clark.
11. Denys Baptiste - City Of Clouds
A reflective piece from the British saxophonist's 2003 album 'Alternating Currents'. Born in London in 1969 to St Lucian parents, Baptiste is winning widespread acclaim as a soloist and bandleader.
12. Alyson Williams - Holding Back The Years
One of the newest cuts on this collection, from the 2004 album 'It's About Time' by the American vocalist best known for late-'80s crossovers like 'Sleep Talk' and 'I Need Your Lovin''.
13. Kymaera - It's Too Late
...and now they turn their attention to the Carole King song from 1971's multi-million-selling 'Tapestry'.
14. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is
Another voice you simply can't miss…and a genuine American crossover smash in early 1967 when this yearning lilt went to Number 2 on the Hot 100, kept off the top only by the Monkees' 'I'm A Believer'.
15. Ray Charles - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Few artists could take well-known songs and turn them into their personal property like the immortal Genius. This song first reached a US chart, for Henry Burr, in 1909 - but when Brother Ray stamped his name on it, it stayed stamped… |
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