Time: 52:26
Size: 120.1 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[2:48] 1. Get Happy
[2:33] 2. Fine And Mellow
[3:35] 3. Embraceable You
[3:03] 4. That Ole Devil Called Love
[2:46] 5. Blue Moon
[2:59] 6. I Thought About You
[2:46] 7. Summertime
[3:18] 8. I'll Never Smile Again
[3:15] 9. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
[2:35] 10. All Of Me
[3:30] 11. God Bless The Child
[2:34] 12. What Is This Thing Called Love
[3:07] 13. Stormy Weather
[3:33] 14. Lady Sings The Blues
[2:35] 15. Willow Weep For Me
[3:50] 16. Don't Explain
[3:33] 17. My Man
Still the best voice to have come out of a Simon Cowell talent contest, former X Factor 2010 runner up Rebecca Ferguson has a rich, tender, soulful tone, a kind of lived-in essence that oscillates precariously between happiness and sadness. It is a quality familiar in the work of tragic jazz legend Billie Holiday, whose centenary is celebrated this year (2015).
Lady Sings The Blues is a more or less straight run through some Holiday classics (including God Bless This Child, Lover Man, and of course, Lady Sings the Blues), freshened up only by the depth of the contemporary recording sound and the particular personality of Ferguson’s first class vocals. The instrumentation is traditional jazz pop, emphasising piano and horns, with orchestras adding an extra glaze of faux sophistication. These songs are so familiar that no one ever really need record them again and yet the American songbook has become a standard fixture in middle of the road pop careers precisely because this perfect alignment of melody, lyric and emotion works every time. Ferguson is never overwhelmed or in awe, singing with rhythmic sass and feeling. A lean, propulsive reconfiguration of What Is This Thing Called Love offers a brief glimpse at a much bolder album that could have been made with these songs and this voice. ~Neil McCormick
Lady Sings The Blues is a more or less straight run through some Holiday classics (including God Bless This Child, Lover Man, and of course, Lady Sings the Blues), freshened up only by the depth of the contemporary recording sound and the particular personality of Ferguson’s first class vocals. The instrumentation is traditional jazz pop, emphasising piano and horns, with orchestras adding an extra glaze of faux sophistication. These songs are so familiar that no one ever really need record them again and yet the American songbook has become a standard fixture in middle of the road pop careers precisely because this perfect alignment of melody, lyric and emotion works every time. Ferguson is never overwhelmed or in awe, singing with rhythmic sass and feeling. A lean, propulsive reconfiguration of What Is This Thing Called Love offers a brief glimpse at a much bolder album that could have been made with these songs and this voice. ~Neil McCormick
Lady Sings The Blues
Many thanks Mat.
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