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Lover Man & Other Billie Holiday Classics 180gr LP

Carmen McRae (voc); Nat Adderley (crt); Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis (ts); Mundell Lowe (g); Norman Simmons (p); Bob Cranshaw (b); Walter Perkins (dr)

In this stunning LP, Carmen McRae pays homage to
her friend and idol, Billie Holiday.
With her strong alto, huge range, and ability to
change moods, McRae varies her sound throughout,
sometimes sounding deliberately gravelly, then
switching to softly sweet and romantic, matching
the timbre of the instruments accompanying her.
She alternates her tempo from slow and dramatic to
lively, jazzy, flirty, or intimate. Always, she
and the musicians accompanying her are in perfect
sync, both in interpreting the lyrics and
improvising with the melodies.
Every song is a winner. 'Them There Eyes', begins
with McRae singing off-rhythm, accompanied by a
simple bass (Bob Cranshaw) and drums (Walter
Perkins) before the sax (Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis)
enters. 'I'm Gonna Lock My Heart', is the
happiest, with McRae hitting some surprising high
notes. 'Miss Brown To You', swings in a loose,
flirty manner, and 'I Cried for You' features
McRae sounding like a muted trumpet and wailing.
'Lover Man' is wonderfully bluesy, with a
toe-tapping rhythm and improvisation, while 'A
Little Moonlight', with great piano (Norman
Simmons), sax (Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis) and trumpet
(Nat Adderley) solos, is wild and impassioned.
'Yesterdays', my favorite, begins as a slow,
harshly melancholy song with sensitive piano
background, then suddenly pauses slightly in the
middle, and shifts to a faster, jazzier, more
rhythmic line in which McRae is up and down and
all over the scale. 'Strange Fruit', one of
Holiday's signature songs, is finely articulated,
and McRae's phrasing and ironically sweet tones
give even more emphasis to the horrifying lyrics
as Mundell Lowe's guitar provides the mournful
accompaniment. 'God Bless the Child', written by
Holiday, is slow and intimate, and as McRae
phrases the story, her wailing adds poignancy to
the lyrics.
Blessed with a voice and style that naturally
adapts to any kind of jazz, along with the ability
to articulate lyrics with perfect enunciation and
phrasing, McRae is the consummate musician here.
Singing some of Billie Holiday's best songs, and
accompanied by world class artists with whom she
is totally in sync, McRae in this LP is as good as
it gets.
By Mary Whipple

Format: 1LP 180g 33rpm / standard sleeve
Release date: 14.05.2018
Manufacturer: Pure Pleasure
Original label: Columbia
Genre: Jazz

Kat.č.: PP 8530  (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 899.00 Kč, EAN: 5060149622667 skladem: 0ks, expedujeme do 2-40 dnů