Karrin Allyson - In Blue
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Artist: Karrin AllysonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Music Label: Concord Records
Soundtracks:
- Moanin'
- Everybody's Cryin' Mercy
- Long As You're Living
- The Meaning Of The Blues
- My Bluebird
- Hum Drum Blues
- How Long Has This Been Going On?
- West Coast Blues
- Evil Gal Blues
- Blue Motel Room
- Bye Bye Country Boy
- Love Me Like A Man
- Angel Eyes
Music reviews of In Blue
Music Review: Beautiful musical hue
Rating: 5 Stars
This is another top notch release fom Karrin Allyson and her incredibly good band, most notably Steve Wilson on sax and Danny Embrey on guitar. Both of these musicians are of exceptional talent and add tremondously to the texture of the CD; their solos mix to create a perfect jazz ambience.The side musicians are allowed the jazz space for improvistation within the lines and structure of an amazing voice for a startling yet soothing result. Beginning with "Moanin" Allyson demonstrates her varied talents with scat singing and a guttural,sexy voice for a bluesy rendition that swings gently and provocatively. This disc is a throwback that is progressive and looking forward yet following the rich traditions of jazz. The Oscar Brown Jr .song "Long as you're Living" is a song that packs a powerful message about the here and now and the importance of relishing every moment. Many of the songs featured contain a message that soothes the consciousness . Allyson demonstrates her ability to be true to the musical roots of these great songs of jazz in a rich, saucy style that can be sensous or raucous, leaving the listener fully satisfied. If this were an old black and white film you would see blue grey smoke curling through the pitch black screeen of a night spot. This is a "blues" album that is unlike your preconceptions of the blues, it is the vivid color of a blue sky after a rainy day that has cleansed the earth. The blues according to Karrin Allyson are "universal-it's hard to not respond to them" and that is exatcly what you will do after listening to this disc, you will respond, you 'll respond postively. Her sulty voice is full of emotion and brings joy . If you like your blues with a fine jazz treatment, and a genuine interpretive voice, backed by super musicians, for a cozy, intimate result ,than this is a fine disc to add to your collection. File her next to the other female greats like Sarah Vaughn, Abbey Lincoln or Ella fitzgerald. If you are drawn to the female vocalist stylings of Diana Krall or other jazz singers than you will like Karrin Allyson. Her version of the blues will lighten your spirit.
Description of In Blue
Japanese version featuring a bonus trackThere's nothing like the sound of a singer coming into her own. Following up her first-rate, song-by-song traversal of John Coltrane's Ballads, on which she closely followed the original arrangements, Karrin Allyson here cuts consistently fresh paths through a choice set of blues and blues-inspired tunes. There is never a moment when she takes a tune for granted--or allows us to. Breathing a sultry intimacy into Bobby Timmons' jazz classic, "Moanin,'" she maximizes Jon Hendricks's lyrics with her rolling-and-tumbling phrasing. Toughening her voice, she could almost be mistaken for Bonnie Raitt on "Love Me Like a Man," one of the blues-rock queen's signature songs. Backed by her fine regular guitarist Danny Embrey and the superb rhythm section of Mulgrew Miller, Peter Washington, and Lewis Nash, she also brings distinction to offbeat selections such as Oscar Brown Jr.'s "Hum Drum Blues," Blossom Dearie's "Bye Bye Country Boy," and Joni Mitchell's "Blue Motel Room." That she knows "The Meaning of the Blues" (she covers that Bobby Troup standard, too) is no surprise. She is, after all, from Kansas City. But the variety of shades she exposes here is worth shouting about. --Lloyd Sachs
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