Diane Schuur - Deedles

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1984
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:37
Size: 95,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:47)  1. The Very Thought Of You
(5:20)  2. New York State Of Mind
(3:54)  3. Teach me Tonight
(2:35)  4. I'm Beginning To See The Light
(4:20)  5. I'll Close My Eyes
(4:13)  6. Reverend Lee
(3:22)  7. I'm Just Foolin' Myself
(4:59)  8. Rock Me On The Water
(4:41)  9. Can't Stop A Woman In Love
(3:20) 10. Amazing Grace

On her 1984 debut album, vocalist/pianist Diane “Deedles” Schuur triumphs from the start (a fluid, assured vocal delivery on the standard “The Very Thought of You”) to the end (a duo version of “Amazing Grace” with her on piano and coproducer Dave Grusin on keyboards). Deedles is both traditional, with a 20-piece string section, and contemporary-sounding, with electric bass throughout. Schuur’s career-long penchant for tackling the contemporary songbook is established here with a pair of numbers from the '70s: Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” (one of two tracks to feature her mentor, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz) and Jackson Browne’s “Rock Me on the Water.” It’s definitely an album of its time, with Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer and occasional Simmons electronic drums. But her effortless scat interpolating of the circus favorite “Entrance of the Gladiators” into Ellington’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light” is evergreen. ~ Editors' Note https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/deedles/29085

Personnel: Vocals – Diane Schuur; Drums – Moyes Lucas (tracks: 1 to 9); Electric Bass – Dan Dean (tracks: 1 to 9); Electric Guitar – Howard Roberts (tracks: 1 to 9); Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Dave Grusin (tracks: 5, 6, 10);  Harp – Gloria Agostini;  Percussion – Dave Grusin (tracks: 2, 3, 6,);   Piano [Acoustic Piano] – Dave Grusin;  Strings – Barry Finclair, Charles Libove, Charles McCracken, Elena Barere, Gerald Tarack, Harry Lookofsky, Jan Mullen, Jean Ingraham, John Pintavalle, Julien C. Barber, LaMar Alsop, Lewis Eley, Regis Iandiorio, Richard Locker, Richard Sortomme, Sue Pray, Theodore Israel;  Strings, Concertmaster – David Nadien;  Synthesizer [OBX-a] – Dave Grusin (tracks: 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10);  Synthesizer [Yamaha DX-7] – Don Grusin (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 9)

Deedles

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