Janis Siegel & Fred Hersch - Slow Hot Wind

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:24
Size: 148,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:18)  1. For All We Know
(5:07)  2. Love Came On Stealthy Fingers
(5:41)  3. Make Sure You're Sure
(4:01)  4. Softly As I Leave You/ Not Like This
(6:43)  5. Who Are You/ I Remember You
(5:30)  6. For No One
(5:56)  7. Slow Hot Wind/ Moon And Sand
(4:05)  8. The Shining Sea
(4:15)  9. Goldmine
(6:18) 10. Agua
(5:34) 11. Sister Moon
(5:50) 12. Alone Together

Singer Janis Siegel (taking time off from The Manhattan Transfer) and pianist Fred Hersch make for a complementary team on this CD, supporting and occasionally challenging each other. The sources of the compositions they interpret (many are of fairly recent vintage) stretch from Sting and Stevie Wonder to Johnny Mercer and there are quite a few middle-of-the-road pop ballads although Siegel gets to break loose on "Moon and Sand." But overall this well-played and often impressionistic music is consistently melancholy, a bit dull and often outside of jazz without all that much improvisating taking place. ~ Scott Yanow  

http://www.allmusic.com/album/slow-hot-wind-mw0000176740

Personnel:  Janis Siegel – vocals;  Fred Hersch – piano;  Tony Dumas – bass;  Ralph Penland - drums

Slow Hot Wind

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