Joe Williams - A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry
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Artist: Joe WilliamsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-12-30
Music Label: BLUE NOTE
Soundtracks:
- What's New
- It's The Talk Of The Town
- I'll Never Smile Again
- I'm Thru With Love
- Where Are You ('Top Of The Town')
- I've Only Myself To Blame
- Say It Isn't So
- What Will I Tell My Heart
- You've Got Me Crying Again
- Can't We Talk It Over
- I Laugh To Keep From Crying
- A Man Ain't Supposed To Cry
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Free Music Review: No surprises, no tears.
Hit: 4 Stars
This all-torch ballad album culled from evergreens of the American Songbook fully supports Joe's decision to split from Basie and, much like Sinatra's separation from Tommy Dorsey, go it alone as the star attraction. Unfortunately, all-ballad albums and strings-plus-harp accompaniment seem to generate little interest among today's sentiment-deprived listeners. And albums organized around a thematic thread are being dismantled by the thoughtless parcelling out of individual songs into pay-per-tune downloadable audio files--another threat to all-ballad programs organized, moreover, around a theme.
Joe definitely has the voice for this material. These are not the "suicide songs" of the classic Sinatra ballad albums on Capital arranged by Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins. The tempos are considerably "brighter" than those favored by Sinatra, who makes of each number a vehicle for Hamlet-like introspection and poignant, sometimes heart-rending dramatization. The arrangements by Jimmy Mundy are professional and non-distracting though lacking the imaginative narrative touches and complex colors of Riddle's absorbing canvases and the profound melodramatic sentiment of Gordon Jenkins.
An interesting comparison can be made between this album and one done slightly earlier by a former Ellington big band baritone crooner, Herb Jeffries--"Say It Isn't So" on Bethlehem. In some respects Jeffries' approach, more focused on the richness of the baritone sound and on pure melody rather than the drama of the lyrics, is more suggestive of the style favored by Nat Cole, Billy Eckstein, and Johnny Hartman. It's a more detached relation to the song's story or drama but a match-up between singer and song that seems more conducive to repeated listenings. It also suggests that Sinatra's drama was pretty much sui generis and that, if anything, we've underestimated the interpretive and acting abilities that he brought as much to the dramatic possibilities of a song as to a movie role.
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