Gail Marten - Beyond The Rainbow

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:55
Size: 169,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:05)  1. Nature Boy/ You Don't Know What Love Is
(6:08)  2. Once I Loved
(5:54)  3. Delicado
(5:18)  4. SummerTime
(2:47)  5. Long Ago And Far Away
(8:51)  6. Besame Mucho
(5:52)  7. Remember Bill
(5:25)  8. Manhã De Carnaval
(2:49)  9. Like Someone in Love
(4:31) 10. I'll Remember April
(5:59) 11. Almost a Samba
(7:36) 12. Over The Rainbow
(7:34) 13. Swept Away

Gail Marten & The Clem Ehoff Trio Singer, Gail Marten, teaming up with pianist, Clem Ehoff...have collaborated to highlight Marten’s covering of standards on Beyond The Rainbow...Marten leads the group on the majority of the tracks with Ehoff’s arrangements that highlight her sunny disposition, even on tunes with customary undertones on regret or loss, like Jobim’s "Once I Loved." 

More often than not throughout Beyond The Rainbow, Ehoff combines Marten’s straightforward approach to singing standards with his fondness for Latin rhythms, and you get results like "I’ll Remember April," built upon Ehoff’s vamp. As a song stylist, Marten is quite effective with a sure sense of pitch and unhurried phrasing, allowing words like “boy” in "Nature Boy" to escape as an exhalation rather than forcing the lyric upon the listener. Instead of changing the feel of a single tune, Ehoff converts the conventional singing of "Nature Boy" into a medley ending with a samba version of "You Don’t Know What Love Is. "The fact that Marten alludes to "Over The Rainbow" for the title of her CD leads one to fear that her version will be a gushing piano bar version, but not so. She restrains herself, as does the trio, for a more introspective version of the song, albeit one that contains few surprises. Ehoff’s "Remembering Bill" is the most affecting of the trio’s pieces, as he lets the Evans influence flow through, even as it wasn’t evident on the other tracks. ~ Bill Donaldson - Cadence Magazine  http://www.gailmarten.com/?section=press2

Beyond The Rainbow

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