Monday, May 19, 2014

Clare Teal - Hey Ho

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:47
Size: 130.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. If Love Were All
[3:36] 2. One More - Baby Be Good To Me
[5:17] 3. Why
[3:36] 4. It's Not Unusual
[3:40] 5. The Sally Gardens
[2:43] 6. Love Is The Sweetest Thing
[3:40] 7. Whole - It Isn't Like Me
[4:01] 8. Care Of Cell 44
[4:22] 9. Try A Little Tenderness
[4:50] 10. Chasing Cars
[4:26] 11. Sing It Back
[4:09] 12. He Was Beautiful
[5:16] 13. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
[3:01] 14. We'll Gather Lilacs

It's not really a jazz album, although there's jazz in it, and it's certainly not a "nostalgia" album, even though it opens with a song by Noël Coward and closes with one by Ivor Novello. In fact, this amounts to an imaginative and sometimes quite radical revisiting of 14 British songs, from the early 20th century ("Down by the Sally Gardens") to 2005 (Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars"). Even the sacrosanct "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" comes in for some daring reharmonisation. It's all very unexpected, and only a singer as bright and adventurous as Clare Teal could bring it off - which she does, flawlessly. ~Dave Gelly

Hey Ho

1 comment:

  1. No jazz here. Just a Middle-of-the-Road singer. I mean, a GOOD middle-of-the-road singer. Nice ballads. OK with me.

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