Claire Martin & Kenny Barron - Too Much In Love To Care

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 56:59

Size: 130.5 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz

Year: 2012

Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Too Much In Love To Care

[4:50] 2. Embraceable You

[5:24] 3. Weaver Of Dreams

[5:07] 4. Crazy He Calls Me

[3:46] 5. You Turned The Tables On Me

[5:37] 6. How Long Has This Been Going On

[3:57] 7. Lazy Afternoon

[2:40] 8. Time After Time

[5:53] 9. A Time For Love

[3:24] 10. I Only Have Eyes For You

[5:14] 11. I'm Glad There Is You

[3:22] 12. Wonder Why

[4:35] 13. Too Late Now

What immediately strikes both veterans and newcomers to Ms Martin's ever-expanding oeuvre (and here I'll bet she didn't even know that she had an ‘oeuvre') is that she has more of the sound of what a jazz singer should sound like than virtually anybody else of her approximate generation. She has a unique vocal timbre that screams ‘ jazz' at the top of its lungs even though Ms Martin herself barely even raises her voice. She's often cited Ella Fitzgerald as her first influence, but I continually hear some personally forged hybrid of the young Anita O'Day and the even younger Carmen McRae in her voice. The sound of her voice itself can only be described as pure jazz. The tracks that will most likely first catch your attention here are those pure duos between Ms Martin and Mr Barron, where, if this isn't too redundant, the other instruments are not present. Ms Martin has extensively worked in a voice-piano duo format before, usually with the awesome British pianist Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. (Ms Martin clearly exhibits a penchant for keyboard royalty, between a knight of the British Empire and an American baron.) See if it doesn't strike you that although they are piano masters of comparable, incredibly high levels of skill, their approaches to the voice-piano duet format are very different. When Sir Richard plays for Ms Martin, you are always conscious of how bass and drums are absent, he makes you think about the silences, and those silences even more than any additional notes or any instruments ever could. Conversely, when Sir Barron plays behind Ms Martin, you completely forget that the bass and drums aren't there, it isn't until you listen extra closely that you realise that the Washingtons are outside copping a smoke somewhere. ~Will Friedwald

Too Much in Love To Care  

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