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| Something for Grace |
| Regina Carter |
első megjelenés éve: 1997
60 perc |
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| (1997)
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| 3.141 Ft
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| 1. | Downtown Underground
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| 2. | Listen Here
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| 3. | Day Dreamin' on the Niger
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| 4. | Reflections
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| 5. | Something for Grace
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| 6. | Soul Eyes
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| 7. | Late Night Mood
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| 8. | I'll Write a Song for You
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| 9. | Hide & Seek
Bahjee Bahjee
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| 10. | Centro Habana
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Jazz / Post-Bop; Mainstream Jazz; Jazz-Pop
Recorded: Sorcerer Sound Studios, New York, New York
Regina Carter - violin
Nicki Richards - vocals
Michael Bearden - piano, organ, keyboards, drum programming
Werner "Vana" Gierig - piano, synthesizers
Oriente Lopez - piano
Jane Getter - guitar
Kenny Davis - acoustic bass
Tracey Wormworth - bass
Rocky Bryant - drums
Lewis Nash - drums
Johnny Almendra - percussion
Mayra Casales - percussion
Regina Carter (who has a beautiful tone and a swinging style) is one of the top new jazz violinists of the 1990s, and the more memorable selections on this CD are so strong that they almost allow one to overlook the three throwaway pop/R&B songs. Unfortunately, the opening "Downtown Underground" is one of the losers, and the Nicki Richards vocal piece "Late Night Mood" (which recording executive talked Carter into recording that turkey?) is so lightweight that it should have been released on another album. In contrast are near-classic renditions of Eddie Harris' "Listen Here" and Mal Waldron's "Soul Eyes"; Carter's haunting ballad "Reflections" deserves to become a standard. A mixed bag, but overall this CD is recommended, with reservations.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Regina Carter
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Chamber Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Classical Crossover
Violinist Regina Carter is a highly original soloist whose sophisticated technique and rich, lush tone took the jazz world by pleasant surprise when she arrived in New York from her native Detroit. And jazz fans weren't the only people who heard that mercurial quality in her playing: artists as diverse as Faith Evans, Elliot Sharp, and Mary J. Blige have employed her talents on their recordings, as has filmmaker Ken Burns on his soundtrack for The Civil War. Add this to an extremely long list of jazzers that includes Tom Harrell, Wynton Marsalis, and Oliver Lake. Carter began playing her instrument at age four and attended Detroit's prestigious Cass Technical High School. Upon graduating, she departed for the new England Conservatory of Music, only to return to Michigan to join the all-female jazz quartet Straight Ahead. After two recordings for the Atlantic label, Carter left the band in 1994 in search of a solo career. She had already been doing session work in the city and sought to make the move permanent. Carter found herself working with Max Roach, the String Trio of New York, and the Uptown String Quartet before recording her self-titled debut recording on Atlantic in 1995. Its mixture of R&B, pop, and jazz confused jazz fans and delighted pop critics. It sold well enough for her to record Something for Grace, which leaned in the jazz direction, though it featured R&B sheen in its production. Carter left Atlantic for Verve in 1998 and recorded two more outings under her own name, the last of which, Motor City Moments, is her finest session. In 2001, Carter recorded a duet session with Kenny Barron that has been universally acclaimed for its lyrical qualities and stunning range of dynamics and harmonic invention. She has since released the classical-influenced Paganini: After a Dream in 2003 and the American songbook album I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey in 2006.
---Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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