Nanette Natal - It's Only A Tune

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:35
Size: 109.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[5:01] 1. It's Only A Tune
[4:58] 2. The Night Awaits Me
[4:38] 3. How Do You Walk Away From Love?
[6:17] 4. The Dream Is Over
[5:29] 5. You'd Think I Would Have Learned By Now
[4:26] 6. Different Times Different Spaces
[5:30] 7. It Was Now It Was Then
[6:18] 8. Waiting
[4:52] 9. Sweet Vanities

Nanette Natal has long been a major singer, one whose expressive interpretations of lyrics and sharp ability to improvise have made her an important if underrated talent. On It's Only a Tune, she mostly sticks to original ballads plus a couple soulful medium-tempo pieces. Natal wrote all of the music, and her intelligent and often philosophical lyrics make a few of her tunes possibilities to become standards in the future if enough singers hear this set.

Natal's interplay with the horns (each of whom are excellent even if only veteran trombonist Art Baron is well known) is playful and bluesy, adding to the appeal of this excellent set. The one flaw is the lack of liner notes, but the music itself is quite memorable. ~ Scott Yanow

This is an album of romantic ballads, all written by vocalist Nanette Natal. The music is lush in its arrangement and usage of trumpet, trombone and saxophone. The style is reminiscent of the "West Coast cool jazz" period, and it sets a sultry mood.

Nanette Natal (vocals); Nanette Natal; Tim Ferguson (acoustic bass, double bass); Daniel Hovey (guitar); David Brandom (alto saxophone); Rob Henke (trumpet); Mark Patterson , Art Baron (trombone); Vince Cherico (drums, percussion).

Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (07/2003).

It's Only A Tune

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