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专辑英文名: Dear Blossom
专辑中文名: 永誌难忘~纳金高经典歌曲集
歌手: Nicki Parrott
音乐风格: 爵士
资源格式: FLAC
发行时间: 2017年06月05日
地区: 美国
语言: 英语
概述:
专辑介绍:
Nicki Parrott - vocals & bass
John Di Martino - piano
Frank Vignola - guitar
Lisa Parrott - bariton sax & bass clarinet
「永誌难忘」(Unforgettable)是纳金高(Nat King Cole,1919-1965)最经典的歌曲之一,也是女儿Natalie Cole在1991年与他「隔空对唱」的经典专辑。Venus唱片的当家花旦妮基.派洛特向来都是以女性柔情似水的一面作为宣传重点,这回特别以中性装扮当作唱片封面,可以看出向纳金高致敬的意图。去年才推出《木匠兄妹经典歌曲集》的妮基.派洛特,这回大胆挑战纳金高有如天鹅绒一般的嗓音,选了14首由Nat King Cole唱红的歌曲,包括乐迷耳熟能详的「让我们恋爱吧」、「想念你」、「蒙娜丽莎」、「永誌难忘」、「爱」等金曲,让喜爱她的歌迷见识到她驾驭不同风格的强大功力。
其实妮基.派洛特与纳金高非常相似,两人都是乐手(妮基.派洛特是贝斯手,而纳金高则是钢琴手)出身,但却因为百年难得一见的好嗓音而走红。不过两人都没有放弃热爱的乐器演奏,依然坚守自己的岗位。这张专辑除了Nicki Parrott的演唱与贝斯弹奏之外,钢琴与吉他请来了老班底约翰.迪.马替农与Frank Vignola,令人惊喜的是这次担任萨克斯风与竖笛演奏是丽莎.派洛特,也就是当年促使妮基.派洛特放弃钢琴,转而演奏贝斯的亲姊姊。其实两人早在妮基.派洛特的《四季之歌》四张专辑中就陆陆续续有合作,无庸置疑是最佳的合作伙伴。录音地点选在纽约的Trading 8录音室,完整收录妮基.派洛特的纯净美声,再现最完美的录音效果。
Recorded at Trading 8's Studio in New York on October 25, 26 & November 9, 10 2016.
妮基.派洛特 - 永誌难忘~纳金高经典歌曲集 (CD)
Nicki Parrott: Unforgettable~Nat King Cole Song Book CD
发行公司:venus
产品编号:VHCD-1213
发行日期:2017/03/31
媒体形式:CD
张数:1 张 - 1CD
01 Walkin’ My Baby Back Home 陪我的爱人走回家
02 Let’s Fall In Love 让我们恋爱吧
03 The Very Thought Of You 想念你
04 Hit That Jive Jack 爱死爵士
05 Mona Lisa 蒙娜丽莎
06 Meet Me At No Special Place 不要在特别的地方相遇
07 A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 夜鶯在柏克莱广场歌唱
08 Unforgettable 永誌难忘
09 Straighten Up And Fly Right 振翅高飞
10 For Sentimental Reasons 为了感性的理由
11 When I fall In Love 当我坠入爱河
12 L-O-V-E 爱
13 Answer Me My Love 回应我的爱
14 Perfidia 背叛
Audio CD (May 5, 2017)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Arbors
ASIN: B06WGPK6T2
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
DEAR BLOSSOM:
A Tribute to Blossom Dearie
Nicki Parrott, vocals and string bass
Arbors Records, ARCD 19453
This Arbors CD is vocalist/string bassist Nicki Parrott’s interpretation of songs associated with late vocalist/pianist Blossom Dearie. It’s interesting to compare and contrast these two talented vocalist-instrumentalists. They both have unique, clear vocal delivery and subtle tones.
Both the late Ms. Dearie and Ms. Parrott have lots of YouTube presentations that are easily searchable. So, one can easily find and compare.
For those not familiar with Nicki’s musical history, here’s a brief summary. She is native Australian who came to the U.S. and studied bass with Rufus Reid. Vocalization came later when she was regularly featured for about a decade with Les Paul’s Monday night sessions. Paul was intrigued with her vocalizing and encouraged her.
Nicki is supported here by pianist Chris Grasso, vibraphonist Chuck Redd and drummer Lenny Robinson. Guesting on some numbers are clarinetist/tenor saxophonist Engelbert Wrobel, percussionist Vince Cherico, and cornetist Warren Vache’.
Selections, all associated with Ms. Dearie, vary from sentimental to hip, e.g. I Wish You Love and It Might As Well be Spring for the former and Peel Me a Grape and I’m Hip for the latter.
Pensacola fans will remember fondly Ms. Parrott’s appearance at Pensacola JazzFest several years ago.
Thanks to Rachel Domber of Arbors Records for continuing to supply us with high quality jazz recordings.
Duration58:02
Genre International
Recording DateOctober 10, 2016 - October 12, 2016
Recording Location Trading 8s Studio, Paramus, New Jersey
Nicki Parrott Digs Blossom
Nicki Parrott is special. In addition to being a warm, smart singer, she's also a bassist. An interesting combination, which means as a singer she can swing in time. And as a bassist, she's lyrical. I must say that when her new CD, Dear Blossom: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie (Arbors), crossed my desk, I was a bit apprehensive. Dearie is a dangerous pianist-singer to take on. Her hip, girlish vocal style developed during a lengthy stay in Paris in the 1950s remains delicately distinct. What's more, Dearie had a way of phrasing that was deceptively difficult. She was singing, yet it came across as conversational. And then there was the matter of her extraordinary taste in songs, which always fit her like a Dior.
When I put on Parrott's CD, I was blown away. Parrott not only sensitively understands all of this, she even has Dearie's understated vocal style, right down to its petite vibrato and splash of wistful vulnerability. It's remarkable, really. Then again, this was a natural progression after Parrott's album Sakura Sakura [Cherry Blossoms] (2012), on which she recorded They Say It's Spring with Dearie's feel.
For example, take I Walk a Little Faster (by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh) on her new album. Dearie recorded the song in 1957 on Give Him the Ooh-la-la for Verve. Parrott's version is exceptional, delivered with Dearie's tenderness and purpose. Or Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz's Rhode Island Is Famous for You, which Dearie recorded on Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs (Verve) in 1960. And Parrott's French isn't half bad on Emile Jean Mercadier and Rene Albert Clausier's Tout Doucement, which Dearie recorded in 1956 on Blossom Dearie (Verve). What I love most about Parrott's album is that she doesn't over-sing the material or over-dramatize the lyric. She simply sings with Dearie in her heart, and the album works beautifully.
Parrott has great support here. She's backed by Chris Grasso on piano, Chuck Redd on bass and Lenny Robinson on drums. Special guests are Warren Vaché on cornet, Engelbert Wrobel on clarinet and tenor sax and Vince Cherico on percussion. My only wish is that Parrott had included Dusty Springfield, from Dearie's That's Just the Way I Want (It) to Be (with Harold McNair on flute and tenor saxophone, by the way!)—the same album from which Parrott chose Inside a Silent Tear. Dearie wrote the song with Jim Council and Norma Tanega, and it's the hippest little thing.
No matter. Parrott's tribute to Dearie remains the finest and most graceful jazz vocal album that I've heard this year, an album that was wonderfully engineered by the late Jim Czak. I only wish I could call him to rave. He would have loved that. Sigh. It's also gratifying that Rachel Domber is producing this level of amazing work at Arbors.
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专辑曲目:
01. I Wish You Love
02. Everything I've Got Belongs To You
03. I Walk A Little Faster
04. Peel Me A Grape
05. Inside A Silent Tear
06. Devil And The Depp Blue Sea
07. Dear Blossom
08. I'm Hip
09. Tout Doucement
10. Try Your Wings
11. Surrey With A Fringe On Top
12. Rhode Island Is Famous For You
13. It Amazes Me
14. It Might As Well Be Spring
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