Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture
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Edition: Music CDAudio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1997-11-18
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Skylark - K. D. Lang
- Too Marvelous For Words - Joe Williams
- Autumn Leaves - Paula Cole
- Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) - Rosemary Clooney
- Dream - Brad Mehldau
- Days Of Wine And Roses - Cassandra Wilson
- That Old Black Magic - Kevin Spacey
- Come Rain Or Come Shine - Alison Eastwood
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Clint Eastwood
- This Time The Dream's On Me - Alison Krauss
- Laura - Kevin Mahogany
- Midnight Sun - Diana Krall
- I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) - Joshua Redman
- I Wanna Be Around - Tony Bennett
Music reviews of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture
Music Review: Some gems amidst the clutter...
Rating: 3 Stars
The CD is pretty much a rollercoaster of highs and lows. Using hometown composer, Johnny Mercer, for the basis of MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL's soundtrack makes perfect sense, but some of the choices of singers will leave you scratching your head, if not exactly covering your ears.
The good ones:
k.d. lang nails a beautiful "Skylark," with lovely orchestration framing her vocals superbly.
Rosemary Clooney once again proves her mastery of song with an effortless "Fools Rush In."
Brad Mehldau has some fun with "Dream" playing around with melody with solid rhythm support to good effect.
"This Times the Dreams on Me" via Allison Krauss is a great interpretation. It's just the right combination of softness with an underlying power.
Kevin Mahogany's straightforward Laura is appreciated. He just wraps the deep voice around the lyric and carries it along. Michael Brecker's tenor sax makes for a nice counterpoint to Mahogany's bass.
Diana Krall doesn't do anything new to "Midnight Sun" and she doesn't have to.
Redman makes up for his intrusive sax on Cassandra Wilson's entry with a playful take on this standard.
And then there's Tony Bennett...no complaints here.
Not quite so good:
Too Marvelous for Words" suffers because the great Joe Williams is not quite up for what this number required of him. Maybe another number would have worked out a little better.
Paula Cole sounds more than a bit lost on "Autumn Leaves." Her voice is just too slight for this ballad.
Cassandra Wilson is a great jazz artist but I would have liked my "Days of Wine and Roses" a little more straightforward and a little less Redman on the Sax
Kevin Spacey's trying a bit too hard on "That Old Black Magic,"
Allison Eastwood doesn't have the chops for "Come Rain or Come Shine." Her phrasing is just awful.
And Clint is just having a little fun, but he's probably the only one on "Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" (That takes care of the Hollywood contingent)
So another soundtrack that has its share of good and not quite so good, but as a Johnny Mercer sampler, even the numbers I was less than enthralled with have their charm. I admire Eastwood's efforts to create a memorable soundtrack and I'm not sorry I grabbed this one.
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