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| The Very Best of Cleo Laine - 34 Classic Hits |
| Cleo Laine |
| első megjelenés éve: 1997 |
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| (1997)
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2 x CD |
| 4.701 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | He Was Beautiful
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| 2. | I Loves You, Porgy
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| 3. | No One Is Alone
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| 4. | Birdsong (Sambalaya)
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| 5. | Solitude
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| 6. | Streets of London
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| 7. | I Don't Know Why
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| 8. | Send in the Clowns
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| 9. | Dreamsville
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| 10. | Gonna Get Through
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| 11. | Skylark
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| 12. | Creole Love Call
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| 13. | What'll I Do?
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| 14. | It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
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| 15. | You Must Believe in Spring
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| 16. | Wish You Were Here (I Do Miss You)
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| 17. | Bill
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Lies of Handsome Men
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| 2. | Play It Again Sam
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| 3. | I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)
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| 4. | If
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| 5. | Thieving Boy
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| 6. | Won't You Tell Me Why
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| 7. | I Remember
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| 8. | Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
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| 9. | Woman Talk
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| 10. | Sophisticated Lady
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| 11. | Music
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| 12. | Bess, You Is My Woman Now
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| 13. | My Man's Gone Now
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| 14. | I'm Beginning to See the Light
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| 15. | A Time for Farewell
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| 16. | Turkish Delight
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| 17. | Born on a Friday
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Jazz / Vocal
Cleo Laine
Clark Terry
Dudley Moore
Duke Ellington
Gerry Mulligan
Jaki Dankworth
James Galway
Joe Williams
John Dankworth
John Williams
Ray Charles
Toots Thielemans
This two-CD set may be titled The Very Best of Cleo Laine: 34 Classic Hits but it is actually a lesser reissue. Drawing its material from Laine's RCA recordings of 1974-1996, the set is pretty light on jazz despite cameos from Clark Terry, Gerry Mulligan, Toots Thielemans and Joe Williams. While the occasional jazz tracks give one a feeling of relief, most of the reissue finds Laine backed by an orchestra, sounding like a Broadway or cabaret singer, occasionally going over the top with sentiment. While Laine has always had a beautiful voice and a wide range, she was never much of an improviser and her choice of material has been erratic through the years. So, next to swinging numbers such as "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" and "It Don't Mean a Thing," are forgettable show tunes and throwaway songs. Nearly all of the performances are overarranged with little of value occurring outside of the sound of Cleo Laine's voice.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Cleo Laine
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Oct 28, 1927 in Southall, Middlesex, England
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Bop, Cool, Ballads, Jazz-Pop, Traditional Pop
With a multi-octave voice similar to Betty Carter's, incredible scatting ability, and ease of transition from a throaty whisper to high-pitched trills, Cleo Laine was born in 1927 in the Southall section of London, the daughter of a Jamaican father and English mother. Her parents sent her to vocal and dance lessons as a teenager, but she was 25 when she first sang professionally, after a successful audition with the big band led by Johnny Dankworth. Both Laine and the band recorded for Esquire, MGM and Pye during the late '50s, and by 1958, she was married to Dankworth.
With Dankworth by her side, Laine began her solo career in earnest with a 1964 album of Shakespeare lyrics set to Dankworth's arrangements, Shakespeare: And All That Jazz. Laine also gained renown for the first of three concert albums recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall, 1973's Cleo Laine Live! At Carnegie Hall. She also recorded two follow-ups (Return to Carnegie and The 10th Anniversary Concert) the latter of which in 1983 won her the first Grammy award by a Briton. She has proved a rugged stage actress as well, winning a Theater World award for her role in the Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, (in addition to Tony and Drama Desk nominations as well). In 1976 she recorded a jazz version of Porgy and Bess with Ray Charles, and also recorded duets with James Galway and guitarist John Williams. Laine and Dankworth continued to tour into the 1990s, and she received perhaps her greatest honor when she became the first jazz artist to receive the highest title available in the performing arts: Dame Commander.
---John Bush, All Music Guide |
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