Watch What Happens: The Jazz Album
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Brand: ThomasPerformer: Fiete Felsch
Performer: Gary Foster
Performer: Marcus Bartelt
Performer: Dieter Ilg
Performer: Andreas Maile
Composer: Harold Arlen
Composer: Adam John / Price, Stuart David Blake
Composer: Charlie [1] Chaplin
Composer: Eric Stephen Cunningham
Composer: Duke Ellington
Composer: Sammy Fain
Composer: George Gershwin
Composer: Michel Legrand
Composer: Frederick Loewe
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Composer: Stevie Wonder
Conductor: Nan Schwartz Mishkin
Performer: Peter Erskine
Performer: Richard Todd
Performer: Chuck Loeb
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-02-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
- Watch What Happens
- Secret Love
- You And I
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
- I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
- Can't We Be Friends? - Arranged by Alan Broadbent
- Smile (Final Theme from the Motion Picture "Modern Times") - Arranged by Nan Schwartz
- They All Laughed
- My Funny Valentine
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? - Arranged by Nan Schwartz
- In My Solitude
Music reviews of Watch What Happens: The Jazz Album
Music Review: Not Jazz ?!
Rating: 5 Stars
Disregard the bitter 2 star reviews below. (Hint: You can tell by the nature of their complaints that these reviewers are probably miserable people in general.)
Thomas Quasthoff has SOUL: You hear it in his cantatas, you hear it in his lieder, and you hear it in his jazz. Yes, JAZZ.
Description of Watch What Happens: The Jazz Album
Is it surprising that a master of German art song would produce a jazz album? Not if he's Thomas Quasthoff, who has sung jazz since his university days and maintains an infectious enthusiasm for it. From breezily light baritone to sexy bass (he rumbles very comfortably around low F), Quasthoff totally adapts his sound to the music's needs, confidently attacking certain notes "white" before adding vibrato. The American "r" - so difficult for foreign artists - does draw undue attention, as do certain vowel sounds, but otherwise Quasthoff's delivery of English is convincing. He sings much of the music comparatively "straight" (one frequently wishes he'd indulge in some really off-the-wall improvisation), but he definitely knows his way around this material. Highlights are a cool "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," a jaunty "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive," and especially haunting versions of Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" and Duke Ellington's "In My Solitude." Very enjoyable, too, is the growling conclusion of Stevie Wonder's "You and I." Quasthoff is supported by a strong ensemble, including Germany's most gifted jazz trumpeter, Till Br?nner, and the excellent pianist Alan Broadbent. The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestra, however, brings an unwelcome "101 Strings""flavor to six numbers. --Roger PinesGeneral CDs
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- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
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- Jazz > General
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