Deborah Cox - Destination Moon

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:08
Size: 99,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:41)  1. Destination Moon
(4:07)  2. What A Difference A Day Made
(3:42)  3. Misery
(3:36)  4. Baby, You're Got What It Takes
(4:06)  5. This Bitter Earth
(2:23)  6. Squeeze Me
(3:00)  7. New Blowtop Blues
(4:08)  8. Blue Skies
(3:27)  9. I Don't Hurt Anymore
(4:33) 10. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(3:23) 11. September In The Rain
(3:55) 12. Look To The Rainbow

Artist tributes are tricky pieces of work. Most of the time, they aren't recorded by the biggest names of the moment, and they're usually sub-par. Instead of putting out an album of new music after a five-year hiatus, and twelve years into her career, Canadian R&B diva Deborah Cox released Destination Moon, a tribute to jazz legend Dinah Washington. Cox refers to this album as a personal tribute to her legend growing up. Frankly, she does justice to the works, which make for a strong representation of Washington's hits over her far too brief career. Cox's voice, in all its purity, has never sounded better, with the honey tones in her raspy instrument flourishing throughout the album's big moments. Unfortunately, the album is full of awkward missteps that steer this work off course: Cox doesn't always connect with the songs. Many of the tracks seem robotic; Cox sings them well, but doesn't emote to the best of her ability, something that has always been a flaw of hers in the past. Therefore, Moon appears to be more of a lifetime biopic of Dinah Washington's musical career than a genuine blockbuster. For an artist like Washington, who has garnered much respect even to this day for her creativeness and emotional capacity, Cox suffers in both attributes. Considering Moon is supposed to be a tribute, as such it seems flat. 

In addition, the timing of the album seems like an odd choice for Cox; there is a five-year gap between this album and The Morning After (excluding Remixed, a collection of dance re-recordings), but this may be because of her label shift from J-Records to Decca. And because she has stayed out of the limelight for some time, jumping back into the music scene with a tribute doesn't seem like the smartest move on her part. In addition, Cox is an R&B diva who is known for her dance tracks and smooth grooves. Jazz seems awkward for the Canadian superstar, who handles the shift well vocally, but seems to have missed the mark in most other places. Ultimately, the album is too indulgent on Cox's part, and in order for the whole piece to be credible, especially for Cox, whose popularity has slowly faded since her newest album, she needed to nail every part of the album, not just the vocals. ~ Matthew Chisling  http://www.allmusic.com/album/destination-moon-mw0000778238

Personnel: Deborah Cox - vocals, background vocais; Rob Mounsey – piano; David Spinozza – guitar; David Finck – bass; Victor Lewis – drums; Andy Snitzer - tenor saxophone; Lew Soloff - trumpet

Destination Moon

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Deborah Cox - The Promise

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 91,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:11)  1. Love Is Not Made In Words
(3:55)  2. You Know Where My Heart Is
(4:37)  3. Did You Ever Love Me
(4:20)  4. Saying Goodbye
(4:10)  5. Beautiful U R
(3:31)  6. The Promise
(3:38)  7. All Over Me
(3:40)  8. All Hearts Aren't Shaped The Same
(4:08)  9. Down 4 U
(3:39) 10. Where Do We Go 2

After a stylistic detour with 2007’s Destination Moon, on which Deborah Cox paid tribute to jazz and classic-pop vocal legend Dinah Washington, the Canadian chanteuse returns to her natural R&B milieu on THE PROMISE. Working with a selection of top-tier collaborators (John Legend, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis), Cox delivers a set of eminently smooth yet impassioned music which alternates between hip-hop-style jams (“Saying Goodbye”) and neo-soul fare (“You Know Where My Heart Is”). On “Did You Ever Love Me,” the singer reveals the benefits of briefly leaving one’s comfort zone, combining modern production with a vocal that recalls Washington’s best torch songs. 

~ Pemberton Roach https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-promise-mw0000800024

The Promise

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Deborah Cox - Ultimate

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:55
Size: 170,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:26)  1. Sentimental
(4:21)  2. Who Do U Love
(4:15)  3. It Could've Been You (Mass Ave Hip Hop Remix)
(4:16)  4. Where Do We Go From Here
(5:47)  5. Just Be Good To Me
(4:11)  6. Things Just Ain't The Same (Dance Mix)
(4:08)  7. September (Radio Edit)
(4:41)  8. We Can't Be Friends (Duet With R.L.)
(3:42)  9. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here (Special Slow-To-Fast Version)
(4:04) 10. I Never Knew (Hani Remix)
(3:34) 11. Absolutely Not
(4:49) 12. Up & Down (In & Out) (Godson Mix)
(4:25) 13. The Morning After
(4:00) 14. Play Your Part (Leading Role Radio Mix)
(4:04) 15. Mr. Lonely (Hex/Mac Mix)
(4:10) 16. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven (Valentin Mix Radio Edit)
(4:55) 17. Same Script, Different Cast (Duet Whitney Houston)

Released in 2003, Remixed was already a greatest-hits collection of sorts for Deborah Cox, even if it was more of a gift for fans of her dance diva persona. This makes the rapid 2004 appearance of Ultimate Deborah Cox a little weird. Still, the latter is a bit richer retrospectively, touching on all the facets of the Canadian vocalist, from her initial success in the contemporary R&B genre through the pop crossovers and her emergence as a dancefloor icon. It's remastered for sonic continuity, and is arranged more or less chronologically. The liners also provide extensive production and chart information. As it sticks almost exclusively to singles the ones helmed by powerhouse producers like Dallas Austin, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and Hex Hector Ultimate Deborah Cox is a strong set. This makes it a good pickup for the casual radio listener, who might be more interested in Cox's vocals than the club beats of Remixed. However, there's still the attempt to flash Ultimate up with remixes of its own, making it awkward and only half-rewarding. The same modern stylization of soul that permeated the Maxwell classic Urban Hang Suite guides "Sentimental" here, and "Who Do U Love" still holds up, even if its grooves have dulled a bit in the warm glow of lite FM. "It Could've Been You"'s spare hip-hop mix, too, is enjoyable, but the "Hani Remix" of "I Never Knew" is pretty darn close to the version on Remixed, and Morning After's "Play Your Part" needlessly becomes twittering club/dance generica. Likewise, "Things Just Ain't the Same" and Cox's club version of Phil Collins' "Something Happened On the Way to Heaven" seem to have been lifted whole from Remixed. Despite these missteps, the underrated title track from 2002's Morning After is left in duskily untouched, and Ultimate's "Up & Down (In & Out)" jettisons the Jadakiss contributions of After's original in favor of a breathy, more sharply cutting mix. The rub here is that Ultimate Deborah Cox tries to please everyone, as its name would suggest, and gets spread too thin in the process. It might content all the camps of Cox's audience for a little while, but it's problematic the morning after.~ Johnny Loftus https://www.allmusic.com/album/ultimate-deborah-cox-mw0000331242

Ultimate

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Deborah Cox - One Wish

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:29
Size: 143,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:46)  1. September
(4:19)  2. It's Over Now
(4:22)  3. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here
(4:41)  4. We Can't Be Friends (Feat. RL)
(4:32)  5. Couldn't We
(4:35)  6. One Wish (feat. DJ Quik)
(4:32)  7. I Won't Give Up
(3:56)  8. Just When I Think I'm Over You
(4:43)  9. Love Is On The Way
(5:06) 10. I Never Knew
(4:13) 11. One Day You Will
(4:14) 12. Nobody's Supposed To Be Here (Dance Mix)
(4:12) 13. Things Just Ain't The Same (Dance Mix)
(4:12) 14. September (Remix)

Arista set out to make a huge star of Deborah Cox. Her first album scored a couple of moderate hits, but with her second they were poised to turn the burgeoning belter into a new Whitney Houston. That didn't quite happen, but the set did make her into a considerable star, thanks in part to her monster cross-format smash "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here." An interesting thing happened the year before this album's release. Cox recorded a song for the Money Talks soundtrack, "Things Just Ain't the Same." The song was not a big hit initially, but a dance mix picked up steam in clubs across the U.S., and after several months turned into a huge dance smash, which in turn opened the singer to a whole new audience almost unexpectedly. Therefore, the first official single from One Wish, "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here," was released as an R&B ballad to urban radio stations, and as a revved-up club anthem to pop stations and club DJs. The song was a smash, spending countless weeks atop the R&B charts and eight weeks at number two on the U.S. pop charts, cementing the singer's newfound broad appeal. That feat wasn't repeated, although the album scored another Top Ten pop hit with dramatic ballad "We Can't Be Friends," a duet with labelmate R.L. of the group Next. The album's musical spectrum was varied, ranging from the typical cheating man song popular at the time (the second single, "It's Over Now," which, in a remixed version, topped the dance charts), to safe middle-of-the-road, adult contemporary fare ("Couldn't We" and the beautiful "One Day You Will"), funky R&B tunes (one of the set's highlights, "One Wish"), and club anthems, including the dance mix of "Things Just Ain't the Same." Cox's voice, a powerhouse unto itself, sounds just as effective and very sweet when she's not belting out a tune Whitney Houston-style (evident on "I Won't Give Up"). The album also includes a bonus track, which is a hip-hop mix of the set's mid-tempo opener "September." A good album, which includes a couple of quintessential 1990s dance hits, and a prime example of Arista's incomparable marketing savvy. ~Jose F.Promis   https://www.allmusic.com/album/one-wish-mw0000041586              

One Wish

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Deborah Cox - I Will Always Love You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:37
Size: 85,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. I'm Every Woman
(5:00)  2. I Have Nothing
(3:55)  3. All the Man I Need
(4:52)  4. I Wanna Dance With Somebody
(4:55)  5. Run to You
(4:58)  6. The Greatest Love of All
(3:37)  7. Jesus Loves Me
(4:35)  8. I Will Always Love You

2017 release. Grammy Award-nominated and multi-platinum R&B/pop recording artist and film/TV actress Deborah Cox is currently crossing the country as superstar Rachel Marron in the hit musical The Bodyguard. "I Will Always Love You" is an eight track EP featuring the most requested songs from the smash-hit musical, including such iconic fan favorites as "All the Man that I Need", "I Have Nothing" and "I Will Always Love You." "Deborah Cox, a songstress with a silken, rangy voice, impresses with her energetic and emotive renditions of the songs." ~ The New York Times. "Deborah Cox astonishes!" ~  The Philadelphia Inquirer. https://www.amazon.com/I-Will-Always-Love-You/dp/B06XGDL523

I Will Always Love You

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Deborah Cox - The Morning After

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:22
Size: 125,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Up & Down (In & Out)
(4:06)  2. 2 Good 2 Be True
(3:48)  3. Play Your Part
(3:31)  4. Like I Did
(5:08)  5. Hurt So Much
(3:42)  6. Just A Dance
(4:24)  7. The Morning After
(3:38)  8. Givin' It Up
(4:26)  9. Up & Down (feat, Jadakiss)
(3:57) 10. Oh My Gosh
(4:26) 11. Starting With You
(4:03) 12. Mr. Lonely (Hex, Mac Mix)
(4:06) 13. Absolutely Not (Chanel Mix)

On her third album THE MORNING AFTER, Deborah Cox continues the upward spiral of a career that once again lands mentor Clive Davis another notch in an already impressive history of talent. Cox's devotion to Davis went so far as to have her leave Arista Records and follow him over to J Records, his latest endeavor. As for the Toronto native, her skills continue to impress and earned her the chance to once again work with a number of renowned producers including Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins.  Blessed with a voice that makes her sound like a fusion of Gladys Knight and Whitney Houston, Cox's impressive range is a big reason why she's been touted as one of pop music's brighter lights. When she isn't busy working the club side of the coin with tracks like "Mr. Lonely (Hex/Mac Mix)" and "Absolutely Not (Chanel Mix)," the petite diva is easing into slow jams like "Play Your Part" and the title cut along with the groove-laden "2 Good 2 Be True." Hip-hop fans will reel in the Kurupt duet "Just A Dance" and the Allstar Remix of "Up & Down" featuring Jadakiss. https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-morning-after-mw0000224881

The Morning After

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Deborah Cox - Deborah Cox

Styles: R&B
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:35
Size: 132,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Sentimental
(4:23)  2. Who Do U Love
(5:17)  3. I'm Your Natural Woman
(4:51)  4. The Sound of My Tears
(4:47)  5. Call Me
(4:15)  6. My Radio
(4:10)  7. Never Gonna Break My Heart Again
(4:56)  8. It Could've Been You
(5:28)  9. My First Night with You
(5:50) 10. Just Be Good to Me
(4:46) 11. Who Do U Love (Morales Mix)
(4:18) 12. Where Do We Go from Here

Like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, Deborah Cox straddles the line between soul and pop, appealing to adult contemporary and R&B fans in equal measures. She is a confident and stylish singer, but her self-titled debut is helped by considerably by the powerhouse producers work behind the scenes. Featuring tracks produced by Babyface, Dallas Austin, and Daryl Simmons among others, the record is filled with immaculately crafted dance-pop and ballads. Not all of the songs are up to the production standards, however. Like many singers in her genre, Deborah Cox is only as good as her material, and the songs on their debut are uneven. She shines on the hit "Sentimental" and several other cuts, including "Never Gonna Break My Heart Again" and the poppy "Who Do U Love," but nearly half of the record consists of undistinguished material. Nevertheless, the best songs on the album suggests that Cox has the potential to develop into a star. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine  http://www.allmusic.com/album/deborah-cox-mw0000174947

Deborah Cox

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