Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:43
Size: 119,2 MB
Art: Front
(3:46) 1. Voy a Apagar la Luz
(3:50) 2. Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
(4:23) 3. Contigo Aprendí
(4:40) 4. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
(4:02) 5. El Reloj
(4:57) 6. La Puerta
(4:40) 7. El Día Que Me Quieras
(4:52) 8. No Te Confundas
(4:09) 9. Dos Gardenias
(4:16) 10. Como Fue
(3:16) 11. Bésame Mucho
(3:46) 12. Toda una Vida
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:43
Size: 119,2 MB
Art: Front
(3:46) 1. Voy a Apagar la Luz
(3:50) 2. Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
(4:23) 3. Contigo Aprendí
(4:40) 4. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
(4:02) 5. El Reloj
(4:57) 6. La Puerta
(4:40) 7. El Día Que Me Quieras
(4:52) 8. No Te Confundas
(4:09) 9. Dos Gardenias
(4:16) 10. Como Fue
(3:16) 11. Bésame Mucho
(3:46) 12. Toda una Vida
“Toda Una Vida” is not your typical Boleros album even though it has mostly Bolero standards. Spaniard singer Carmen Cuesta gives a nice jazzy spin to classic Boleros in her CD with the help of jazz guitarist and husband Chuck Loeb. “Most singers at one point in their career will want to do a Boleros album…” Carmen told me in an interview with Latino Music Café. “There are so many good Bolero albums out there, that I wanted to give mine something different. I wanted to combine the American influence of Jazz with the Latin essence of the Bolero” said the singer raised in Madrid.To be able to achieve this beautiful differentiation in “Toda Una Vida”, it helps to work (and be married ) with legendary guitarist Chuck Loeb, who played in Stan Getz´s band.
“Collaborating with Chuck allowed me to take (the songs) into a slightly different dimension, a new approach” says Carmen in her press release for “Toda Una Vida” (released January 2014). In our conversation, Carmen said that they wanted to change the tempo of the typical Bolero, but still keeping the essence of the message and feeling of each song. This extraordinary mix of beautiful Bolero standards with a slightly different musical approach was achieved thanks to Chuck Loeb’s musical mastery as well as the participation of Madrid-based renown musicians. “Toda Una Vida” was co-produced by popular Spanish music producer Paco Ortega and was recorded in Ortega’s Musicgrama recording studio in Madrid.¨ For her 6th album, Carmen Cuesta selected a combination of songs that include renown Bolero standards, a few less known Boleros, and then added one song of her own authorship. “My first thought was to record less known but beautiful Boleros that people might not be familiar with; but then decided that I also wanted to record some Bolero standards that I really love. To round up the album I thought, ‘why not add one of my own compositions?’, and added “No Te Confundas”. http://www.latinomusiccafe.com/2014/02/16/carmen-cuestas-jazzy-boleros-in-toda-una-vida/
Personnel: Carmen Cuesta: vocals; Chuck Loeb: guitars, additional keyboards; José San Martín: drums, shakers; Antonio “Toño” Miguel: acoustic bass; Moisés P. Sánchez: piano, electric piano; Yuvisney Aguilar: percussion; Antonio Serrano: harmonica (3); Kike Perdomo: flute (2); Oli Rockberger: piano (12).
Personnel: Carmen Cuesta: vocals; Chuck Loeb: guitars, additional keyboards; José San Martín: drums, shakers; Antonio “Toño” Miguel: acoustic bass; Moisés P. Sánchez: piano, electric piano; Yuvisney Aguilar: percussion; Antonio Serrano: harmonica (3); Kike Perdomo: flute (2); Oli Rockberger: piano (12).
Toda una vida
muy agradecido, a lot of thanks, cheers
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Thanks a lot too Juan Manuel!
DeleteWow, I kind of loved this! (But that’s me – and not necessarily YOU.) First item – Voy a apagar la luz – totally blew me away. But it also had me wondering, even before she got to the end, how she was going to liberate such other songs as “Quizás, quizás, quizás” and “El reloj”, farther down the playlist, from their more or less inevitable metronominess and turn them into jazz. Answer: with mixed results. Where she’s good (Voy a apagar, Contigo aprendí, La puerta, Dos gardenias), she’s really good. But some songs resist – and those are the songs in which the maraca guy is allowed to carry these arrangements back in time, not forward in time. As for Bésame mucho, how would anyone even comment on that song nowadays. It’s so of its time – or, as an amiga said to me one time either about Bésame or some similar song, “In order to feel the real thrill of it, you would have to have been una virgen en uno de nuestros países latinoamericanos (Mexico, Venezuela, Peru – little did it matter) in the 1950s.” A quibble: If this very fine performer is going to continue to do Brazilian songs such as “Sei que vou te amar”, she ought to work on her “tch” sound as in “te amar.” It is not the Spanish “ch” as in chicharrón or Chile. It’s softer. Which is kind of the whole point. (Oh, and notice on Voy a apagar, the cut I liked best, the minimalism of the arrangement. I believe it’s just Loeb – no one else.) Am I wrong?
ReplyDeleteI echo your words, Mark and I must say - your opinion adds alot to the above review. On "Voy a apagar la luz" personnel is Chuck Loeb on guitar, Moises P. Sanches on piano, José San Martin on drums, Yuvisney Aguilar on percussion and Antonio ‘Toño’ Miguel on bass.
DeleteThank You Nobody's Tunes! Cheers!
DeleteWow Mark! Thank you for your comentary!! Cheers!
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