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The Crow Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1994)Samples
It's a tough time to be a singer. With an excessive plethora of vocalists mining the Great American Songbook ad nauseum, or trying their hands at songwriting with less than distinctive results, it's harder than ever to be heard. Even once-innovative singers like Cassandra Wilson—now a Grammy Award-winning "star"—have deserted experimentation, resting instead on their not inconsiderable laurels in pursuit of consistent record sales, but losing the edge that got them where they are in the first place.All of which makes Fay Victor such a welcome dark horse. The singer's previous disc, Cartwheels Through the Cosmos (ArtistShare, 2007), introduced a new working ensemble featuring guitarist Anders Nilsson, bassist Ken Filiano, and drummer Michael "T.A." Thompson," all of whom are back for The Freesong Suite, an even more successful stylistic mélange. Once again, Victor's soulful, emotive delivery combines with avant-tinged invention, placing her alongside great vocal innovators like Betty Carter, Jeanne Lee, Sheila Jordan...and, when she was moving forward rather than sideways, Cassandra Wilson...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=34755
this mix of studio and live recordings (her first live releases in nearly 20 years) pushes that momentum further. Live versions of Lover Come Back to Me and Went Down to St James Infirmary find her effortlessly massaging the timing on the former, and barely more than sighing the latter over the kind of blues-steeped guitar groove that tellingly appears all over the set. There are two instrumentals, with A Night in Seville a pared-down rhythm-shuffle illuminated here and there by New Orleans-raised Jonathan Batiste's gleaming piano sound. Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane's tenor drifts atmospherically across the trance-like Come Dance with Me...http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/25/cassandra-wilson-silver-pony-review
Cinema and music are inextricably entwined in Ran Blake's creative consciousness. He's a pianist though, not a filmmaker and his taste in moving picture media filters through a far narrower lens than that of the aural, fixating on noir and vintage musicals. Musically, he's all over the map. Practically anything and anyone is fair game and the subject of delightfully disconcerting mash-ups from Debussy and Horace Silver to Michael Jackson and Mahalia Jackson. As an erudite student of American song, duets with vocalists remain one of his favorite outlets of expression. This set marks his second collaboration with singer Christine Correa though it's been nearly two decades since their first. The program is expectedly idiosyncratic, roping in tunes associated with Blake's aforementioned filmic interests along with left-field selections that prove ready for his pan-stylistic improvisations. As with other of his efforts it requires a bit of acclimatizing to get fully into Blake's groove...http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=54451
I love this soundtrack! so a good movie too!
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After pausing an 18-year career with partner Ben Watt in best-selling alt-pop duo Everything But The Girl (1982–2000), followed by a self-imposed hiatus to start a family, Tracey Thorn re-emerged in 2007.......this is her latest...Tracey Thorn - "Love & Its Opposite"
