Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:58
Size: 83,4 MB
Art: Front
(4:15) 1. The Gentleman Is a Dope
(3:39) 2. Comes Love
(3:37) 3. My Last Affair
(3:32) 4. Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby
(3:24) 5. Mean to Me
(6:08) 6. Peel Me a Grape
(3:06) 7. Goody Goody!
(4:25) 8. Temptation
(3:49) 9. Love Me or Leave Me
These songs, Joanna says, are “fresh imaginings of some of my favorite tunes. I have a rather curious mind so I love to play around with all the angles of a subject. Romance has TONS of angles! Each tune in “Love Me or Leave Me” contains a completely different personality and perspective, just none of that straightforward lovey-dovey stuff.” Each piece, she says, has the quality of meeting a person and getting their candid take on the whole complicated love subject.
The above words are taken verbatim from the blurb and, by and large, convey what the album is all about. Berkebile trained as an opera singer in Los Angeles but, after moving to Kansas City soon became immersed in the jazz scene of that metropolis.That she successfully traversed the gap twixt the genres is evident in the way she uses her operatic range without sounding like a posh tottie out slumming. In particular her scatting on the title track, taken at the fashionably fast tempo currently favoured for that tune, would be a credit to many a more well-known jazz singer. The songs, some well-known, some not so well-known are very much based on the power struggles of relationships that are less or more than 50%.
https://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2020/11/album-review-joanna-berkebile-love-me.html
Personnel: Joanna Berkebile (vocals); Leslie Maclean (piano); Tim Brewer (bass); Jerry Pollock (drums).
The above words are taken verbatim from the blurb and, by and large, convey what the album is all about. Berkebile trained as an opera singer in Los Angeles but, after moving to Kansas City soon became immersed in the jazz scene of that metropolis.That she successfully traversed the gap twixt the genres is evident in the way she uses her operatic range without sounding like a posh tottie out slumming. In particular her scatting on the title track, taken at the fashionably fast tempo currently favoured for that tune, would be a credit to many a more well-known jazz singer. The songs, some well-known, some not so well-known are very much based on the power struggles of relationships that are less or more than 50%.
https://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2020/11/album-review-joanna-berkebile-love-me.html
Personnel: Joanna Berkebile (vocals); Leslie Maclean (piano); Tim Brewer (bass); Jerry Pollock (drums).
Love Me or Leave Me