RUBY RUBY RUBY : The Shadow Of Your Smile

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Format: CD [ZAREK10]
Shipping Weight: 0.08lbs
Label: Zarek

2,780円

'Kammerer works as a vocalist and composer in Berlin in the field of new experimental music. So that was what I expected to hear when I gave this CD a first try. But something else happened. I immediately had to think of Billie Holliday hearing the voice of Margareth Kammerer. Not the baddest comparison one can make of course. Okay, a CD with jazz standards this time: ‘Georgia on my mind’, ‘A Night in Tunesia’ and others. Why not. Kammerer has a beautiful and suited voice for this repertoire. She convincely steels the show on the record. With Derek Shirley on bass and Steve Heather playing drums these three are the core in each song, guested by Axel Dörner (trumpet), Michael Thieke (clarinet), Thomas Meadowcroft (organ) and Tobias Delius (tenor sax). The songs wear soberly arranged jackets, leaving room for inspired contributions by the guests, like the tenor sax solo of Delius in ‘Godd Bless the Child’. But bringing also the guitar playing of Kammerer to the light. The weak spot on this CD if you ask me. I wished she played a bit in more punctuated and pronounced way. Because this is lacking, a track like ‘Angel Eyes’ tends to become dull in the end. But her voice is what counts. Inspired evocations of old, timeless song.'vitalweekly

Tracklist
1 Angel Eyes 3:35
Composed By – Matt Dennis
Lyrics By – Earl Brent
2 You Go To My Head 4:08
Composed By – John Fred Coots
Lyrics By – Haven Gillespie
Trumpet – Axel Dörner
3 Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise 3:10
Composed By – Sigmund Romberg
Lyrics By – Oscar Hammerstein II
Organ – Tom Meadowcroft
4 The Shadow Of Your Smile 2:49
Composed By – John Mandel
Lyrics By – Paul Francis Webster
Organ – Tom Meadowcroft
Tenor Saxophone – Tobias Delius
5 Come Rain Or Come Shine 3:20
Clarinet – Michael Thieke
Composed By – Harold Arlen
Lyrics By – Johnny Mercer
6 God Bless The Child 3:45
Composed By – Arthur Herzog
Lyrics By – Billie Holiday
Tenor Saxophone – Tobias Delius
7 Georgia On My Mind 2:46
Composed By – Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics By – Stuart Gorrell
8 All Of Me 2:43
Composed By – Seymour Simons
Lyrics By – Gerald Marks
9 How High The Moon 4:03
Composed By – Morgan Lewis
Lyrics By – Nancy Hamilton
Organ – Tom Meadowcroft
10.1 A Night In Tunesia 9:44
Clarinet – Michael Thieke
Composed By – Dizzy Gillespie
Lyrics By – Jon Hendricks
Trumpet – Axel Dörner
10.2 Silence 2:00
10.3 Misty 4:23
Composed By – Erroll Garner
Lyrics By – Johnny Burke

Credits
Bass – Derek Shirley
Design – &:create
Drums – Steve Heather
Mixed By, Mastered By – Werner Dafeldecker
Recorded By – Phil Freeborn
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Margareth Kammerer

Notes
Actual track durations (as submitted here) differ from the printed ones.
Last track title has a typo. It should be "A Night In Tunisia" not "A Night in Tunesia".
Track 10 contains a hidden track.