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Artist: Astrud Gilberto with Stanley TurrentineEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-16
Music Label: King
Soundtracks:
- Wanting Things
- Brazilian Tapestry
- To a Flame [Instrumental]
- Solo el Fin (For All We Know)
- Zazueira
- Ponteio
- Traveling Light
- Vera Cruz [Instrumental]
- Historia de Amor [Love Story]
- Where There's a Heartache (There Must Be a Heart)
Free Music Notes for Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine
Free Music Review: The Deodato Show, Special Guests: Gilberto and Turrentine
Hit: 4 Stars
This album is not what I was expecting, but it is mostly well done. Deodato did the arrangements and conducts throughout. This is really HIS album, more than Astrud's. Astrud is absent on two songs. (One of those -- pure instrumentals -- is a tasty arrangement of Steven Stills' To A Flame.) Turrentine shows up only on only four cuts. There is probably less improvisation on this album than on Deodato's hit CD Prelude, but the Deodato touch is very familiar. He makes arrangements that are easy to listen to without becoming completely cheesy, and he leaves room for the instrumentalists to improvise. However, I didn't feel that the spotlight was on Astrud. She became a central voice in Deodato's little symphonies.
Astrud's vocals range from wonderful to a little embarrassing. Zazuiera in particular sounds tentative and sort of dashed together. She is rarely exactly in tune on this song. On the other hand, Burt Bacharach's Wanting Things is just beautiful, touching. The best cut on the album is probably Brazilian Tapestry, bringing together the best of Deodato's arranging, Turrentine's sax, and Astrud's vocals.
I don't like the way Astrud's voice was mixed. Ponteio and Traveling Light sound normal. On some of the other cuts, her lower range is boosted, and the upper middle and higher frequencies are sucked out, removing any hint of breathiness or reediness in her voice. What's left is the fundamental note, plus the sibilants at the extreme high end. It sounds heavy and thick. The audio engineering could have been improved on in this regard.
What we're left with is an album with many good individual tracks that make for pleasant Sunday brunch-style jazz listening, but is not in any sense a cohesive whole. I recommend the album. In fact, I've enjoyed it very much. I just wasn't prepared for Deodato being the mastermind.
By the way, I would recommend the European Import "Master Series" version, ASIN: B0000AM6RE, currently available through Amazon marketplace sellers for less than $9 plus shipping. Look carefully through the Amazon listings, and you will find it. It contains three bonus tracks, not very consequential ones, but still. Also, the overal sound quality is quite pure and clean, apart from the heaviness apparent on some of Astrud's vocals. (It is an HDCD disc.)
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