Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:48
Size: 107,9 MB
Art: Front
(4:36) 1. My Foolish Heart
(4:33) 2. Girl Talk
(4:33) 3. Talk To Me Baby
(4:39) 4. Cruisin'
(4:44) 5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
(4:19) 6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
(5:59) 7. How Long Has This Been Going On
(4:24) 8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
(5:02) 9. Melancholy Baby
(3:54) 10. Downtown
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:48
Size: 107,9 MB
Art: Front
(4:36) 1. My Foolish Heart
(4:33) 2. Girl Talk
(4:33) 3. Talk To Me Baby
(4:39) 4. Cruisin'
(4:44) 5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
(4:19) 6. My Baby Just Cares For Me
(5:59) 7. How Long Has This Been Going On
(4:24) 8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
(5:02) 9. Melancholy Baby
(3:54) 10. Downtown
Girl Talk was recorded live to
two-track using a single microphone. The liner notes state that Holly
Cole's intention in doing so was to preserve the "quintessence of her
live performancs," and the result is dazzlingly successful. The air of intimacy between artist and listener is so great that, if anything, the feeling of being present in the moment is greater here than on the 1996 live album It Happened One Night. On an album recorded "live in concert," the ambient noises that occur when a large number of people are gathered in one place can seem discordant or inappropriate when you're listening to the CD in your car or your living room; the atmosphere can exclude rather than include you. Put on this disc, however, and you can imagine that Holly Cole is singing for you alone. It's easy to focus on Cole's emotionally compelling delivery, and at first you can be so mesmerized that you forget that the vocalist is one part of a trio.
Listen more carefully, and it becomes apparent that the piano and bass accompaniments are deceptively simple that they are, in fact, providing a counterpoint to the sung lyrics that is almost conversational. Suddenly, these simple arrangements feel quite complex. The most entertaining song on the album may well be Cole's interpretation of the traditionally sunny and euphoric "Downtown." In her expert hands it moves from near cynicism to a guarded openness that makes this standard seem to have a range of meaning you may never have considered. ~ Maya Geryk http://www.allmusic.com/album/girl-talk-mw0000207577
Personnel: Holly Cole (vocals); John Johnson (saxophone); John MacLeod (trumpet); Aaron Davis (piano)
Personnel: Holly Cole (vocals); John Johnson (saxophone); John MacLeod (trumpet); Aaron Davis (piano)
This looks very, very good. Thank you, Giullia.
ReplyDeleteThank you Copacetic47!
DeleteI saw her live at this moment. There was not too many women doing that jazz style, back then. Now, there are hundreds !
ReplyDeleteI also thibk that Canadian women like EC Barlow, Jill Barber, Diana Panton etc are follwing the footsteps of Holly Cole.
Hey Mario B, I think so! Merci!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteHolly Cole - Girl Talk;
ReplyDeleteStrangely each song does not play till the end. It stops somewhere in the middle. To make sure I download it twice and the problem did not get solved.
The same problem occurred on Frank Foster & Frank Wess - Frankly Speaking & Frank Foster & Frank Wess - Two for the blues. I wonder why? Am I the only one?
Hey Kiken, Very strange. The duration of the songs is the same as on several websites. Tomorrow I will listen to the entire album.
DeleteThank you so much for your response and action, Giullia!!!
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DeleteI download your link and listened to it, Nobody'sTunes. The same problem, for example, 'My Foolish Heart' stops at 3:06 or so and skips to the next song 'Girl Talk.' However, thank you for your trying, but no worry! I just was curious what is causing this or is there something wrong on my side ....
DeleteKiken, try this new link in flac. I got this album from somewhere else. Then tell me... https://www.mirrored.to/files/XRODCTRQ/hollycole.girltalk.zip_links
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