Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:11
Size: 95,7 MB
Art: Front
(3:14) 1. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
(3:25) 2. Come Down In Time
(4:23) 3. Lost In The Stars
(4:22) 4. Mystery Man
(5:53) 5. My Funny Valentine
(5:47) 6. Nature Boy
(4:14) 7. Long Daddy Green
(5:10) 8. Wasted
(2:29) 9. Before Love Went Out Of Style
(2:10) 10. I Read My Sentence
Chances are you have neither heard of this album or Radka Toneff. But the album is recognised as a jazz classic in Scandinavia, is Norway's best-selling jazz album of all time and was voted Norway's Best Album of All Time in a poll of Norwegian musicians in 2011. Toneff graduated from the Oslo Musikkonservatorium in 1975.
Seven years later she was dead from an overdose. A highly original singer, she made an enormous impression on Norwegian (and Scandinavian) jazz during her brief lifetime, and her influence still continues to be felt through singers such as Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and Torun Eriksen. This is her finest work, and when it was originally released it became something of an audiophile classic, since it was recorded on one of the first digital tape machines.
Remastered using MQA technology from the 16-bit/50.35 kHz master-tapes, it appears here as a 16-bit Hybrid SACD (meaning Super Audio CD), the combination of piano and voice captured with astonishing clarity. Many pundits have described these performances as breathtaking and it is hard to disagree; the grain of Toneff's voice combined with a less-is-more delivery beguiles with its intimacy and enjoys a second life in the memory long after the CD has been played.
Ultimately, it is limiting to call this remarkable album ‘a classic of Norwegian jazz’; quite simply it is a contemporary jazz classic.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/radka-toneff-and-steve-dobrogosz-fairytales
Musicians: Steve Dobrogosz (p), Radka Toneff (v)
Seven years later she was dead from an overdose. A highly original singer, she made an enormous impression on Norwegian (and Scandinavian) jazz during her brief lifetime, and her influence still continues to be felt through singers such as Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and Torun Eriksen. This is her finest work, and when it was originally released it became something of an audiophile classic, since it was recorded on one of the first digital tape machines.
Remastered using MQA technology from the 16-bit/50.35 kHz master-tapes, it appears here as a 16-bit Hybrid SACD (meaning Super Audio CD), the combination of piano and voice captured with astonishing clarity. Many pundits have described these performances as breathtaking and it is hard to disagree; the grain of Toneff's voice combined with a less-is-more delivery beguiles with its intimacy and enjoys a second life in the memory long after the CD has been played.
Ultimately, it is limiting to call this remarkable album ‘a classic of Norwegian jazz’; quite simply it is a contemporary jazz classic.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/radka-toneff-and-steve-dobrogosz-fairytales
Musicians: Steve Dobrogosz (p), Radka Toneff (v)
Fairytales
Thx Giullia never heard about but better late than never
ReplyDeleteHey Jazzcatflyk, Thank you!
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