GINO VANNELLI - The Best And Beyond
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Artist: GINO VANNELLIEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: CD
CD Release Date: 2009-11-13
Music Label: zyx
Soundtracks:
- People Gotta Move
- Wild Horses
- Hurts To Be In Love
- Brother To Brother
- I Just Wanna Stop
- Crazy Life
- Black Cars
- Living Indise Myself
- Venus Envy
- Wheels Of Life
- Just A Motion Away
- The Surest Things Can Change
- Put The Weight On My Shoulders
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Music Review: Review of Gino Vannelli's Best & Beyond CD
Rating: 4 Stars
To have a full appreciation for Gino Vannelli's album entitled The Best & Beyond" one has to have a sense of the history of the artist behind the music. I have followed Gino Vannelli's singing and recording career since my graduate study days at Kent State University back in the 1970's. At that time I happened to be walking past a room of someone who lived down the hall from me in what was then the now demolished Terrace Hall graduate dorm.
The music I heard through the door was really fantastic as I never heard anything or anyone like it before. What immediately struck me when I was first walking by the dorm room where the music was coming from was the voice of the recording artist. It was pure, strong, on exact note at every point and had such an innate moxie and sexiness quality about it that you couldn't do anything but love hearing it. The style of music I was hearing was not main stream pop but leaned heavily toward a mix of jazz with the then up and coming fusion style. I thought to myself, "this is rediculous - how can anyone sing let alone put lyrics to a fusion style of music?" Up to that point I thought the best singing voice in history had been Frank Sinatra but when I heard Vannelli's pipes I immediate thought "Move over Frank, this new unknown is in town and is better than you!!".
So out of musical curiosity I knocked on this person's door, introduced myself and asked the person occupying the room what recording artist it was she was listening too. She invited me into her room and immediately pulled out three Gino Vannelli record albums and asked me if I would like to stay and listen to all her albums such as Storm at Sunup, The Gist of The Gemini, A Pauper in Paradise. The rest is history as we sat there for about three hours and listened to and discussed the life and times of Gino Vannelli.
In any case I began to then purchase everything I could find on Gino Vannelli. His albums at that time were easy to find at local shops as he was on the mainstream A&M label as he had been "discovered" by label owner and Tijuana Brass band leader, Herb Albert. Over the years Vannell's style of singing moved toward pop (Brother to Brother, Nightwalker/Black Cars, Powerful People) which caused his singing career to go mainstream with top-pop singles along the way. As he continued he eventually moved his production to European music labels and later to his own production with his brother. Also during this time his singing and musical style evolved from jazz-fusion to pop and then onto a semi-opera style Canto and most recently to classic nightclub style lyrical jazz as in the album A Good Thing.
And this little bit of artist history brings me to his most recent album release (The Best And Beyond). Over the years Gino Vannelli has rereleased many of his previous songs over and over again usually as a "best hits" or an anthology album (Ultimate Collection) as many artists do, and in keeping with his the original recorded styles. But this import production "Best & Beyond" album is different. Rather than just his continuing the re-release cycle going Gino Vannelli has actually taken the step to reinterpret many of his pop-hits and in a couple of different ways.
Several songs that were originally fast tempo are now performed in slow tempo. His phrasing and metering of the originals puts a more seductive quality to the sound of the music. Also most of the fusion-style instrumentation of the original recordings is now with this "Best & Beyond" album been made "warmer" as he now utilizes plenty of brass into the orchestraic mix. The sound is reminiscent of the analog production days and almost total non-existence of any cold and sterile digital sound quality that were a trademark of his previous recordings.
In effect Gino Vannelli has "modernized" his previously released music by taking a step backwards toward a much more intimate and warmer singing style and sound quality. It sounds now much more intimate with its touch of nightime smooth blues style. I beleive that he is on to something whereby he can re-introduce much of his past fabulous music to the public without risking it being labeled yet another "best hits" anthology.
Though the content of the album is comprised of past songs they really are different and new souding. The album is certainly worth buying as it seems this musical talent is beginning to embark on a journey to re-invent himself. This would be an intersting journey to follow as this artist's voice and style is truly a cut way above any singer in history and is truly needed to remind people of what good singing and music really is.
Description of The Best And Beyond
Italian-Canadian multitalent GINO VANNELLI is back to present his most recent album OF MY BEST which delivers a CD with his greatest hits along with unreleased material! GINO VANNELLI successfully designed his very own genre with elements taken from Progressive Rock, Rock-Jazz fusion and R&B-Jazz fusion and topped it all off with wonderful lyrics. The outcome is an original progressive music which ranked him somewhere between STEVIE WONDER and WEATHER REPORT in the seventies and the eighties. In Europe, he has left a strong imprint with huge hits like WILD HORSES and beautiful songs such as LIVING INSIDE MYSELF or I JUST WANNA STOP. After a glamorous inroad into classical operatic music in 2003, he returned back to Pop. He now lives in Holland and is actively working on various projects when not in concert.Pop CDs
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