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Laura Fygi's Bewitched is a straight-ahead jazz date in which the attractive singer is joined by a rhythm section, a string section, and some guests. She performs fresh and warm versions of a dozen songs, the majority of which are ballads. The performances are concise (only one tune exceeds four and a half minutes) and lightly swinging, although the string section sometimes seems unnecessary. Toots Thielemans' harmonica helps out on "Good Morning Heartache" and "Girl Talk," Clark Terry uplifts "It's Crazy" and "The End of a Love Affair" with his flugelhorn, and tenor great Johnny Griffin is featured on "I Only Have Eyes for You," "I Love You for Sentimental Reasons," and "I Wish You Love." Throughout, Fygi holds her own and sounds quite relaxed and musical, making these standards her own. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow
Personnel: Laura Fygi (vocals), Jurre Haanstra (conductor, arranger), Ferdinand Povel (flute, saxophone), Hans Vroomans (piano), Gwenael Micault, John Van Eyk (keyboards), Jurre Haanstra (keyboards, bass, drums, percussion), Francis Goya, Phil Lee, Bert Meulendijk (guitar), Ruud Jacobs, Malcolm Creese (bass), Peter Ypma, Harold Fisher (drums), Frits Landesbergen (percussion), The London Studio Symphony Orchestra.
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Purchase Bewitched CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Gary Stadler Fairy Nightsongs CD (1998)
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$12.95 This recording should immediately appeal to anyone interested in fairies, forests, and magic realms, because composer Gary Stadler and singer Sing Kaur have evoked the fantasy and enchantment inherent in fairy myths perfectly on FAIRY NIGHT SONGS. Using the mystical strains of Celtic music as a palette to work from, Stadler employs the sounds of harps, keyboards, and gentle synthesizers as a backdrop for Kaur's expressive soprano.
Fans of New Age and ambient music with a Celtic flavor may be reminded of Loreena McKennitt or Enya, but the combination of soft, delicate textures and the album's theme (note the album titles: "Midnight Myst;" "Spark in the Night") gives FAIRY NIGHT SONGS a distinctively magical, nocturnal flavor that will wash over the listener like a swath of warm moonlight.
Composer and songwriter Gary Stadler combines melodic elements of world beat and symphonic wizardry to be one of the new millennium's forerunners in new age music. He joined Sequoia Records in 1996 with his premier album, Fairy of the Woods, a collection of enchanted Celtic compositions that brings legends and myths of Fairy folk to life. Vocalist Laura ...
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$11.05 Singer Laura Fygi is in excellent form on this set of bossa novas. Due to the sweetening of a string section and some safe arrangements, the music is quite accessible, if not too challenging. Fygi's voice is lovely and she could excel in a much more sparse setting in the future if given the opportunity. She is ably assisted by a variety of guests, including appearances by Toots Thielemans, Clark Terry, and singer Michael Franks; the latter contributed two songs and shares a vocal duet with Fygi on "Tell Me All About It." An enjoyable ...
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| | Chico Freeman Lenox Avenue Breakdown CD (1978)
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$13.49 In addition to having excellent cover art (an illustrated cityscape in which a giant saxophone--complete with windows, a doorway, and stoop--takes its place among the neighboring buildings), LENOX AVENUE BREAKDOWN is also a dynamic, unjustly overlooked jazz album. Prodigiously talented as an instrumentalist and composer, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 1970s and '80s, and LENOX AVENUE BREAKDOWN, his Columbia Records debut, proves it.
Blythe's ability to marry the best of the genre's traditions (he is equally versed in swing, post-bop, and romantic styles) with his avant-garde leanings is evident here. "Odessa," for example, a modal exploration, begins melodically, yet pushes further into free-jazz territory as the tune progresses. The angular bop of the title track is offset by adventurous ...
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| | Oliver Lake Movement, Turns & Switches CD (1996)
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$13.85 This is a consistently fascinating set by altoist Oliver Lake's String Project. Best known for his exploratory flights, Lake is an underrated arranger/composer. For the unusual but consistently fascinating effort, he utilizes a string quartet (violinist Ashley Horne and Sandra Billingslea, Ashley Horne on viola, and cellist Eileen Folson) for five of his six originals, occasionally adding bassist Belden Bullock and (on one song apiece) trumpeter Kenyatta Beasley (during the well-titled "Fan Fare Bop") and Neil Clarke on conga. The music is adventurous but quite coherent, often rhythmic and melodic but very open to advanced ideas. These string players can definitely stretch out; improvised sections coincide closely with written passages, so it is sometimes difficult to know which are which. Lake keeps his solo statements ...
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| | 5000 Miles Away From Home CD (2001) (Import) Import; Germany
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$22.69 5000 Miles Away From Home is an unusual Bear Family release on several counts. Subtitled "Nashville Stars In Germany, 1957," it's only got nine songs on it, totalling less than 25 minutes of music, probably the shortest digital disc from the label that practically invented the 30-song CD; additionally, it's an amateur recording, which is a major departure for the European reissue label that makes it a point of licensing every master it uses from its legitimate owner. The reason for those departures lies with the extraordinary rarity of the material here -- there was no known official audio recording of the first overseas USO tour by RCA's roster of Nashville stars, which took place in 1957; but in 2000, an audience tape of exceptional quality turned up and was duly licensed, with the surviving participants contacted for their recollections in assembling the notes. As to the CD, it's priceless, absolutely priceless, and worth whatever Bear Family is asking for it -- even though the performers ...
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$10.05 Tributee: Maroon 5.
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