Anita Wardell - The Road

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:26
Size: 122,3 MB
Art: Front + Back

(5:01)  1. Travels / The Road
(6:43)  2. You're My Thrill
(6:15)  3. Without a Song
(6:37)  4. With Every Breath I Take
(5:09)  5. Frevo Em Maceio
(6:15)  6. Surrey with the Fringe on Top
(5:55)  7. Superwoman
(6:03)  8. Mirrors
(5:25)  9. Você e Eu

Anita Wardell, the Australia-raised vocalist who appeared on the UK scene in the 1990s, makes albums that deploy familiar vocal-jazz methods and plenty of well-travelled standard songs, but also demonstrate a real care for her art. This set finds her accompanied by a sophisticated quintet led by her regular pianist Robin Aspland, on a repertoire mixing standards such as You're My Thrill and Without a Song with material by Pat Metheny, Bobby Hutcherson, Hermeto Pascoal and Stevie Wonder. Wardell's own lyrics are confidingly delivered over the country-song sway of Metheny's and Lyle Mays' Travels/The Road, and You're My Thrill stretches and swoops between an eerily distracted hover and straight jazz time. Pascoal's Frevo Em Maceio is a vehicle for Wardell's boppish agility, skipping flutelike over the mercurial melody, and she quietly caresses the meanings out of Stevie Wonder's Superwoman with an expertise that never betrays a hint of artifice. An unobtrusively classy vocal album. ~ John Fordham  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/22/anita-wardell-the-road-review

The Road

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