Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:52
Size: 80,4 MB
Art: Front
(3:40) 1. Triste
(3:33) 2. I Can't Get Started
(2:15) 3. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
(3:51) 4. This Masquerade
(3:24) 5. Mad About The Boy
(3:04) 6. I'm Old Fashioned
(4:41) 7. It Never Entered My Mind
(3:00) 8. Speak Low
(3:07) 9. I'm Falling In Love Again
(4:13) 10. Do It Again
Mad About The Boy
Year: 1976
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:52
Size: 80,4 MB
Art: Front
(3:40) 1. Triste
(3:33) 2. I Can't Get Started
(2:15) 3. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
(3:51) 4. This Masquerade
(3:24) 5. Mad About The Boy
(3:04) 6. I'm Old Fashioned
(4:41) 7. It Never Entered My Mind
(3:00) 8. Speak Low
(3:07) 9. I'm Falling In Love Again
(4:13) 10. Do It Again
In contrast to most actor/actresses-turned-vocalists, there's nothing to joke about on this album no Golden Throats candidates, except maybe the title track. For starters, Shepherd has a solid jazz ensemble backing her up, led by Stan Getz and arranged by Oscar Neves, and gives us a very enjoyable jazz-flavored record. She takes the Fred Astaire approach to singing, not denying that she has a limited range but working carefully within that range and even using those limitations to her advantage. Getz's solos perfectly complement Shepherd's voice, and she stretches out ravishingly on "This Masquerade," "I'm Old Fashioned" is a sexy torch number in her hands, without a trace of campiness, "Speak Low" soars subtly and elegantly, and the opening number, Ginastera's "Triste," is a sophisticated piece of concert music and a triumph for her as well. Peculiarly enough, the title track doesn't hold up as well as the rest, the weakness in her voice coming through at various points in its length, and is the only second-rate number here, although it is fun. Frank Rosolino (trombone), Terry Trotter (piano), and Monty Budwig (upright bass) make up the rest of the core of the band. ~ Bruce Eder http://www.allmusic.com/album/mad-about-the-boy-mw0000227663
Personnel: Vocals, Producer – Cybill Shepherd; Acoustic Bass – Monty Budwig; Arranged By, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Oscar Neves; Bass [Fender] – Octavio Bailly; Drums – Claudio Slon, Joe Baron; Flute – Andreas Kostelas, Arthur Smith (3), Mike Altschul, Richard Spencer; Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa; Piano – Terry Trotter; Producer – Frank Marshall; Tenor Saxophone – Stan Getz; Trombone – Frank Rosolino.
Personnel: Vocals, Producer – Cybill Shepherd; Acoustic Bass – Monty Budwig; Arranged By, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Oscar Neves; Bass [Fender] – Octavio Bailly; Drums – Claudio Slon, Joe Baron; Flute – Andreas Kostelas, Arthur Smith (3), Mike Altschul, Richard Spencer; Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa; Piano – Terry Trotter; Producer – Frank Marshall; Tenor Saxophone – Stan Getz; Trombone – Frank Rosolino.
Mad About The Boy
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DeleteI wonder how Cybill got Stan Getz to be her band member/leader... she must have been the rising star for a brief time.
ReplyDeleteHey SantosCurser, many people have trouble overcoming their preconceived impression of Cybill Shepherd. Perhaps you can change your mind if you read other reviews on this album:
Delete"Cybill Shepherd is no vocal dilettante. She was a singer before she was an actress; but after her 1968 victory as National Model of the Year, and her transition from modeling to movies, her aspirations as a singer were kept largely in limbo.
Now she is back, playing the better jazz rooms, invariably accompanied by a splendid rhythm section. In selecting Stan Getz as her principal accompanist (and virtual co star on several tracks), and Oscar Castro Neves to sketch the charts and play guitar, Cybill indicated her true sense of direction. Given this elegant setting, and having made an admirable choice of songs, she reached a peak in this album. All the right influences can be detected here: a touch of Lee Wiley, and, as she puts it, ''I've listened to Louis Armstrong, of all periods, and of course Billie Holiday. As for Tony Bennett, I have practically worn out the first album he made with Bill Evans.'' There will be many among us who will practically wear out Cybill Shepherd's album with Stan Getz. It is the stuff of which jazz vocal Grammy award winners are made. --Leonard Feather
''MAD ABOUT THE BOY''(a.k.a. ''Cybill Getz Better'') Cybill Shepherd and Stan Getz. (Inner City Records 1097). You could astound your friends at parties by throwing the voice on ''Mad About the Boy'' at them and asking ''Guess who?'' Warm, lilting, soft, swinging, raising nice echoes here and there of Lee Wiley and even of Ella, but it's Cybill Shepherd, backed by saxman Stan Getz at his own most melodic, imaginative and supportive, with a rhythm section. The actress is best and most ingratiating when she is gentlest, confident when she aspires to belt, but on Alberto Ginastera's ''Triste'' and on ''It Never Entered My Mind,'' for examples, she and Getz are a terrific teaming, which would never have entered my mind.
Charles Champlin --Los Angeles Times
...She is a beautiful model and an accomplished actress. She is also a fine, very musical singer with a nice touch on both jazz standards and the Brazilian sound that's fascinated Getz for years.
RICH AREGOOD --Philadelphia Daily News"
https://www.amazon.com/Cybill-Getz-Better-feat-Stan/dp/B000025O7R
The implication I was making is Stan Getz was notorious lothario, and still in his late prime years for such things.
DeleteI am already inclined to like Cybill because compared to the phony dude who helped get her famous she is wonderful (ie trimper Bruce W.)
But Cybill is no giant musical talent (she is not awful!)... certainly one does not need to be a giant to to be the pretty girl singer on records, she was very pretty back then... and Stan Getz was notorious.... the Bill Clinton of jazz... whereas Lester Young was the president.
I'm impressed by your fair amount of knowledge on the matter. You seem to be an expert on the subject.
DeleteI just thought it was a witty thing to say.. i have no idea if Getz smashed Cybill... but he is a very colorful figure and so the question arises.
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