Gwyneth Herbert - Bittersweet and Blue

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:44
Size: 114,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:05)  1. Fever
(3:36)  2. (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night
(4:14)  3. The Very Thought Of You
(3:11)  4. It's Alright With Me
(4:17)  5. Bittersweet And Blue
(4:18)  6. Glory Box
(2:41)  7. Every Time We Say Goodbye
(2:57)  8. Almost Like Being In Love
(4:48)  9. At Seventeen
(4:44) 10. Into Temptation
(3:22) 11. A Little Less
(4:08) 12. Fallen
(3:16) 13. Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Gwyneth Herbert sounded like a star from the first time she opened her mouth in the Soho Pizza Express Jazz Club last year; this is the first product of her signing to Universal. Herbert mixes Broadway songs with a few originals and torchy classics such as Fever, Portishead's Glory Box and Tom Waits's Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night. Backed by a fine band including saxist Nigel Hitchcock and guitarist John Parricelli, she has a precociously powerful chemistry of taste and meticulous care for every sound from a whisper to an exhortation. 

Fever sounds as if it was right inside your head; her Tom Waits interpretation is subtle and warm; The Very Thought of You floats like smoke; the original title track, Janis Ian's Seventeen and Herbert's own Fallen all purr with the singer's remarkably tender composure. Although Herbert is an immensely moving interpreter of good lyrics on conventional songs rather than an improvising jazz singer, not many listeners are going to mind the difference. ~ John Fordham  http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/sep/24/jazz.shopping1

Bittersweet and Blue

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