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| 1. | Johnny Guitar
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| 2. | Why Don't You Do Right?
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| 3. | Take a Little Time to Smile
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| 4. | Fever
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| 5. | My Small Se&
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| 6. | Don't Smoke in Bed
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| 7. | I Get Along Without You Very Well
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| 8. | You Was Right Baby
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| 9. | I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
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| 10. | Solitude
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| 11. | Everything Is Moving Too Fast
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| 12. | When You Speak with Your Eyes
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| 13. | Golden Earrings
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| 14. | I Don't Know Enough About You
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| 15. | What More Can a Woman Do?
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| 16. | Manana
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Jazz
Laura Theodore - Vocals, Producer
Andy Ebberbach Producer, Mastering, Engineer, Mixing
Bill Milkowski Liner Notes
David Jr. Arruda Photography, Design
Neal Weiss Executive Producer
This was Joe Beck's last project -- an album of duets with the throaty-voiced Laura Theodore devoted to the repertoire of singer Peggy Lee and her onetime husband/guitarist Dave Barbour. It could have led to a much more ambitious project, a musical theater production on the life of Lee featuring just Beck and Theodore. But shortly after this album was completed, Beck was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to drop out (the musical went on to open in Cleveland with a conventional full band in Oct. 2007). As it stands, the Lee-Barbour project finds Beck in terrific shape, darting around in several styles, always inventive, always supportive of Theodore. Beck divides his time equally between a Martin acoustic guitar and a custom-designed Martin Joe Beck alto guitar that effectively combines the characteristics of a bass and a guitar. If truth be told, the difference in sound between the two instruments is not that great because Beck's clear-cut timbre and touch stamp an indelible signature on whatever he does. The main difference is in how the instruments are used, for Beck often seems to go with the acoustic whenever he wants to chonk away with rhythmic urgency while the alto lends itself to more intricate work. Theodore's voice and delivery only faintly resemble Lee's, but that's OK, for she imposes her own, deeper-voiced, more overtly dramatic creative personality on Lee's material. The most interesting transformation occurs on, of all things, the covered-to-death standard "Fever" -- now reharmonized and revitalized, capped with a wonderfully weird avant-garde ending in which Beck makes his guitar sound like a CD player skipping on a defective disc. "Manana" is an interesting case -- a period piece in which Theodore dares not mimic Lee's original faux-Mexican accent in the politically correct 21st century, but instead interprets it cheerfully without apologies. Given the sometimes questionable commercial zigzags that Beck's career took, it's heartening to report that his final recordings were so classy. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide
Joe Beck
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jul 29, 1945 in Philadelphia, PA
Died: Jul 22, 2008 in Woodbury, CT
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz
Studio and session guitarist Joe Beck was best known for hits when backing vocalist Esther Phillips on Kudu in the '70s. During the '80s he made a series of competent fusion and pop/jazz recordings for DMP and had a big hit recording with Dave Sanborn on CTI in 1975. His career continued into the '90s and beyond with albums like 1991's Relaxin', 1997's Alto and his 2000 collaboration with Jimmy Bruno, Polarity.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
Laura Theodore
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Torch Songs, Contemporary Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Cleveland, OH native Laura Theodore is a jazz-oriented singer with blues, rock and R&B leanings; she is also a talented actress who is known for her on-stage portrayals of the late rocker Janis Joplin. Although jazz has been Theodore's primary focus in the ‘90s and 2000s--at least as a recording artist--she is far from a jazz snob or a jazz purist and has a long history of performing rock, blues, R&B, cabaret and traditional pop. The singer/actress has brought a wide variety of influences to the studio, and not all of them are people who embraced straightahead jazz exclusively. Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee are influences; there are also hints of Ruth Brown, Bette Midler and Nancy Wilson in her work. (That's Nancy Wilson the pop/jazz singer, not Nancy Wilson of the hard rock/arena rock band Heart).
Theodore was born and raised in Cleveland, OH, where she began acting in local theater as a pre-adolescent. After graduating from high school, she entered Ohio University on a drama scholarship but ended up dropping out of college and touring the United States and Canada with a rock band she put together. Then, Theodore spent some time in Denver and, after that, Boston, where she studied jazz composition at the South Shore Music Conservatory before moving to the New York City area. The ‘90s found Theodore keeping busy with a variety of activities in the Big Apple, where she sang jazz as well as rock and took part in many theatrical activities. On stage, Theodore has portrayed Janis Joplin more than once--first in the off-Broadway production Beehive, then in the play Love, Janis (which found her working with Jerry Ragovoy, a well known songwriter/producer who gave us "Piece of My Heart," "Cry Baby" and other songs associated with Joplin). Another one of Theodore's rock activities of the ‘90s was the band Q, which she co-founded with guitarist Larry Mitchell and had a small New York cult following during that decade. The Ohio native has also done her share of jingles for commercials, including commercials for Jordache Jeans, Playdoh and Nick at Night Television.
The diverse singer/actress' first album, Tonight's The Night, came out on the independent Bearcat label in 1995; subsequent releases included Live at Vartan Jazz on the Vartan Jazz label, We're Only Human (which was more of an adult contemporary project) on Etherean Music and What Is This Thing Called Jazz? on Bearcat. In May 2003, Theodore's fifth album, What the World Needs Now Is Love (which she produced herself), came out on Bearcat.
--- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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