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| 1. | Easy to Love
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| 2. | Only Trust Your Heart
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| 3. | Lover Man
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| 4. | On the Sunny Side of the Street
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| 5. | Porgy, I's Your Woman Now / I Loves You, Porgy
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| 6. | Lover Come Back to Me
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| 7. | The Two Lonely People
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| 8. | Centerpiece
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| 9. | Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry
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| 10. | No More Blues
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| 11. | Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / All the Things You Are
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| 12. | Too Late Now
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| 13. | Multi-Colored Blue
Bonus
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| 14. | Monk's Prayer / Looking Back
Bonus
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49th Annual GRAMMY Nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Jazz / Standards; Ballads; Vocalese
Recorded: Jun 18, 2004, Capitol Studio A , Los Angeles
Roberta Gambarini - vocal
James Moody - tenor sax & vocal
Tamir Handelman - piano
Gerald Clayton - piano
John Clayton - bass
Chuck Berghofer - bass
Willie Jones III - drums
Joe La Barbera - drums
Although she was born and bred in Italy, Gambarini brings a distinctly American jazz flavor to Easy to Love. On the title track, her multi-octave range can be seen as an indication of the "cool school" but when she starts swinging she's anything but cool! Her scats and melodies breathe beautifully and her melodic lines have a lighter, airier quality that finds her swinging but in a softer, more relaxed manner. Billie Holiday's anthem "Lover Man" has been claimed as part of the cool jazz movement and Gambarini certainly offers an outstanding variation of this sublime ballad. Even Gershwin would have enjoyed her passionate reworking of "Porgy, I's Your Woman Now/I Loves You Porgy." Gambarini is equally successful at presenting this Great American Songbook standard as a medley of sentimentality with a range of penetrating cries and whispers implicated in her voice. From ballads to bop, Roberta proves she's no stranger to the art of swing or the bop idiom. Once into "On The Sunny Side of The Street" she teases with playful scats and daring vocalese that would renew anyone's vocal jazz ambitions. "Lover Come Back To Me" adopts a different tonal palette as she launches into a swinging set complete with searing scats that clearly show her respect for Ella Fitzgerald. Joined by the inimitable James Moody on tenor sax and vocals on "Lover Man" and "Centerpiece," the saxophonist adds his instinct for melodic development and own brand of scatting. Adding further to Gambarini's style is a mellifluous but dynamic ensemble that includes |
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