Mike Gibbs With The NDR Big Band Feat. Norma Winstone - Here's A Song For You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:23
Size: 113,4 MB
Art: Front


(4:12) 1. Blue
(3:33) 2. So In Love
(3:01) 3. Soldier’s Things
(5:31) 4. Riverman
(3:03) 5. I Think It’s Going To Rain Today
(3:33) 6. Jitterbug Waltz
(6:04) 7. A Thousand Years
(4:47) 8. Caravan
(4:04) 9. Daydream
(3:04) 10. Here Comes The Honeyman
(4:39) 11. Some Shadows
(3:47) 12. You Go To My Head

The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone has just passed her 70th. Having spent much of her career working with composers who've used her range and precision as a texture, she has blossomed in recent years, with the superb Grammy-nominated 2008 album Distances. Winstone takes on classic pop songs here – including Joni Mitchell's Blue, Tom Waits's Soldier's Things, and Nick Drake's Riverman – with arrangements by Mike Gibbs for Hamburg's NDR Big Band, and Mark Mondesir on drums. Gibbs's low brass parts, riffy sideswipes and Latin grooves transform Cole Porter's So in Love. Soldier's Things has a film noir feel, and Winstone is quietly soulful against the musicians' roar on Riverman. She doesn't quite manage to be playful, raunchy and emotional all at once on Jitterbug Waltz, but Sting's A Thousand Years is perfect for her. A spooky, echo-laden Caravan is startling, and Here Comes the Honeyman balefully bluesy. The reworking of Gibbs's 1970s theme Some Shadows – with a brass/reeds arrangement of Kenny Wheeler's original improvised solo is a bonus.By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/27/mike-gibbs-norma-winstone-review


Personnel: Arranged By, Directed By [Musical Director], Conductor – Mike Gibbs; Bass – Dave Whitford; Cello – Vytantas Sondeckis (tracks: 11); Drums [Drum] – Mark Mondesir; Guitar – Stephan Diez Percussion – Marcio Doctor; Piano – Mischa Schumann (tracks: 10), Vladislav Sendecki; Saxophone [Saxophones], Woodwind – Christof Lauer, Fiete Felsch, Frank Delle, Lutz Büchner, Matthias Erlewein (tracks: 10), Peter Bolte; Trombone – Dan Gottshall, Klaus Heidenreich, Steve Trop; Trombone [Bass Trombone], Tuba – Ingo Lahme; Trumpet – Claus Stötter, Ingolf Burkhardt, Michael Leuschner, Reiner Winterschladen, Thorsten Benkenstein; Voice – Norma Winstone

Here's A Song For You

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