Showing posts with label Sue Matthews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sue Matthews. Show all posts

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Sue Matthews - Love Dances

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1991
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:51
Size: 131,0 MB
Art: Front

(5:58) 1. Love Dance
(5:48) 2. Detour Ahead
(6:41) 3. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
(3:17) 4. Easy To Love
(2:53) 5. The Can´t Take That Away From Me
(6:22) 6. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(3:46) 7. Make Me Rainbows
(3:45) 8. With Every Breath I Take
(3:36) 9. I Thought About You
(3:19) 10. Where Or When
(1:47) 11. There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time
(4:28) 12. My Funny Valentine
(5:05) 13. Our Love Is Here To Say

Product Description:
Love Dances is a baker's dozen of some of the most seductive and stylish love songs you'll ever hear. From Lins, Porter, Gershwin, Van Heusen and the team of Rogers and Hart come many of the best jazz standards ever penned. Matthew's intimate delivery of these favorites is backed by a superb rhythm section headed by pianist Stefan Scaggiari (Corcord Jazz) whose arrangements are wisely sparse allowing Sue to showcase her extraordinary style. Scaggiari's sensitivity follows and anticipates Sue's every interpretive nuance. String bassist, Keter Betts (Ella Fitzgerald) sets the mood, enhancing Matthews' subtlety throughout the album. Guitarist, Steve Abshire and drummer Mike Smith round out this first rate quartet, creating the gentle acoustic sound that characterizes LOVE DANCES.

Review:
Matthews'version of "Love Dance"is the sensual invitation to romance Lins intended. Sue Matthews is definitely a jazz singer. She has a soft, intimate voice and definitely sounds involved in everything she sings. She brings a torchy aspect to world-weary pieces like "Detour Ahead" and sings more innocent songs like "How Long Has This Been Going On?" with a wide-eved sense of wonder. She has an excellent sense of dynamics knowing just when to come down hard on the climax of a song as on "Where Or When" and a stomping "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues". Her backing musicians are on the money as well. Stefan Scaggiari and Steve Abshire back her moods with great sensitivity. Scaggiari tossing out sly blues comments here and there and Abshire kicking out like Les Paul on "Moonlight Savings Time". Keter Betts, who has stints with Dinah Washington and Ella Fitzgerald behind him, also shows he still knows how to back good singers and gets his moment on a hushed vocal-bass duet! By Jerome Wison, Cadence Magazine

About the Artist:
With a voice described as "silky smooth, honey-toned", "expressive" and "smoky", Sue Matthews caresses the jazz standard. Becoming a favorite among jazz lovers, her debut album, Love Dances, and her second release, When You're Around, have brought this talented performer worldwide recognition and critical acclaim. Both albums have received national and international radio play, achieving the "Top 20" berth on the Gavin and R&R Jazz Charts. Her repertiore of jazz standards, contemporary "pop jazz", sultry blues and the classic"torch" are delivered with ease, humor and intectious vitality.
Band Members: Sue Matthews, vocals; Stefan Scaggiari, piano; Keter Betts, bass; Steve Abshire, guitar; Mike Smith, drums.
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Dances-Sue-Matthews/dp/B000000JZ0

Love Dances

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Suil (Sue Matthews & Lynn Saoirse) - L'annmoor

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:05
Size: 107,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:22) 1. The Sea
(3:16) 2. Helpless Heart
(3:05) 3. If I Gave My Heart
(4:33) 4. Haven For My Heart
(3:12) 5. Moondance
(4:15) 6. Between Midnight And Blue
(2:33) 7. Lift The Wings
(2:41) 8. The Helen's Kitchen Waltz
(3:33) 9. Winter, Fire And Snow
(4:07) 10. The Sky Road
(3:08) 11. On The Edge
(3:35) 12. The Oldeset Dream In The World
(3:39) 13. When My Love And I Parted

Like Eden Atwood and the late Susannah McCorkle, Sue Matthews is a very accessible jazz singer who incorporates cabaret and traditional pop elements. Matthews, who lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, has a clean, crystal-clear, pretty sort of voice; she isn't a rugged, hard-edged singer à la Ernestine Anderson or Carmen McRae. Nonetheless, Matthews swings, and she brings a lot of blues feeling to her work. She has a big, full voice and an impressive range; for all the vulnerability that she displays, Matthews will never be accused of sounding like a waif. In fact, one can hear how she has been affected by some aspects of Ella Fitzgerald's singing, specifically, the softer, more caressing side that Fitzgerald often displayed on ballads (although Matthews isn't as forceful or as gritty as Fitzgerald could be on uptempo material). Some listeners have compared Matthews to Diane Schuur, but while Schuur's focus is traditional pop (of the pre-rock variety), Matthews' is essentially an improvising jazz singer (which isn't to say that she is a purist). And even though she is cabaret-influenced, Matthews does not get into the type of stereotypically campy lyrics that some modern cabaret artists are known for. To put it bluntly, Matthews (like Atwood and McCorkle) has the good taste to steer clear of cornball lyrics.

Matthews'first solo album, Love Dances, was released on the small SIR Records in 1991, and her second SIR release, When You're Around (which the East Coast singer co-produced with acoustic pianist Stefan Scaggiari), came out in 1993. After that, Matthews remained active in the Washington, DC area and toured Europe, but didn't record any more solo albums until the early 2000s. One at a Time, her third solo album, was released by Renata Music in July 2002. In addition to having a solo career, Matthews sings with a Maryland-based group called Guys & Doll, whose other members have included Tom McHugh (vocals, banjo, trumpet, kazoo), Bill Matthews (vocals, guitar), Tom Anthony (acoustic bass), and Ethan Hannigan (fiddle). Formed in 1996, Guys & Doll have toured Europe extensively, and those overseas performances are the focus of their CD Live in Ireland. By Alex Henderson
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sue-matthews-mn0000586385/biography

L'annmoor

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Sue Matthews & Camilo Carrara - Foolish Hearts

Styles: Guitar And Vocal Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:39
Size: 125,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:47)  1. The Very Thought Of You
(5:03)  2. Someone To Watch Over Me
(4:15)  3. But Not for Me
(2:53)  4. I'll Be Seeing You
(2:58)  5. Everytime We Say Goodbye
(3:01)  6. I Got Lost In His Arms
(4:54)  7. Someone To Light Up My Life
(2:42)  8. A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes/Once Upon a Dream
(3:35)  9. Let's Fall In Love
(4:06) 10. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
(4:58) 11. My Foolish Heart
(4:21) 12. All My Tomorrows
(2:53) 13. What'll I Do
(5:07) 14. Cheek To Cheek

Magically reinvented at every turn, this charming collection of love songs from the Great American Songbook are brought to life by the delightful pairing of a Brazilian guitarist's poetic caress and an American vocalist's velvet crooning artistry.http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/suematthewscamilocarrara

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Sue Matthews - One At A Time

Styles: Vocal
Label: Renata Music Company
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:41
Size: 111,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:11)  1. My Romance
(4:39)  2. On My Way To You
(4:23)  3. Rocks In My Bed
(2:02)  4. Down With Love
(6:06)  5. Here's To Life
(3:55)  6. Imagine That
(3:44)  7. Caledonia
(3:31)  8. Wild Women Don't Get The Blues
(4:25)  9. How Insensitive
(2:42) 10. One At A Time
(5:01) 11. Losing My Mind
(3:56) 12. Amazing Grace

For her third effort as a soloist, Mid-Atlantic singer Sue Matthews has opted to go with an agenda of standards, show tunes and traditional pop, all of which of she sings with an innate appreciation of intimacy and savoir-faire, mixing some blues inflection and torch where it makes sense. She also has a way about her that gives one a warm, cuddly feeling after listening to her do something like "Down with Love" where she gets a big assist from veteran bassist Keter Betts and long time Washington, D. C. guitarist, Steve Abshire. 


The same two show up for a rueful, blueful version of "Rocks in My Bed". At the same time, Matthews can wrench at your heart strings with a lovely Stephen Sondheim "Losing My Mind" from Follies. Another heart twister, "Here's to Life" is countered by a folk like "Caledonia" done A Capella showing her Irish roots which is also offset by a down and dirty, Sophie Tucker like "Wild Women Don't Get the Blues". Matthews does all of these wonderful vocal things with on the mark articulation, phrasing that's attuned to the meaning and direction of the lyrics. She has the ability to use her band members to her best advantage.

For instance, she hones in on the melodically rich and lyrically tender "My Romance" with strong and equal participation from pianist Stefan Scaggiari as well as trading phrases with guitarist Gerry Kunkel. Because of her willingness to share the song, musicians must like to work with her putting her in a class of vocalists that a Helen Merrill belongs to. This album is highly recommended.~Dave Nathan
(http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=10372#.UfQk_qyAc1I).

Personnel: Sue Matthews - Vocals; Stefan Scaggiari - Piano; Keter Betts, Viktor Dvoskin - Bass; Steve Abshire, Gerry Kunkel - Guitar; Frank Russo - Drums

One At A Time