Linda Ronstadt - Hummin' to Myself
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Free Music Review: Linda Is Back With A Jazzy Vengeance
Hit: 5 Stars
Four years after her last album, 2000's A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, Linda Ronstadt is back with HUMMIN' TO MYSELF, which returns her to the pop/jazz standards genre that she had mined quite successfully three times in the mid-1980s with the late Nelson Riddle.
This time around, however, Linda is working with a jazz ensemble and not a large-scale orchestra, and the results give her even greater vocal flexibility now than the Nelson Riddle recordings gave her twenty years before. Working with long-time friends George Massenburg and John Boylan, Linda gives nothing less than her very best on the album's eleven tracks. The swing element is much more in evidence this time around than it had been on the Nelson Riddle albums, particularly on "Never Will I Marry" (which she had tried to record for a failed standards album all the way back in 1980), and on the Cole Porter standby "Get Out Of Town." She also takes on in very subtle fashion the Julie London classic "Cry Me A River", and gets very poignant on the album's final track, "I'll Be Seeing You."
As has been the case throughout her entire career, Linda has made it a priority to be true to herself and to the spirit of the song, and that tradition continues on HUMMIN' TO MYSELF, working with stellar musicians like Bob Mann, Alan Broadbent, Jim Horn, Peter Erskine, and others to produce the finest collection of pop and jazz standards by any pop/rock veteran out there. Even if Linda is not the most natural of jazz/pop singers in the strictest sense, she does have a natural feel for these songs; and the fact that the sound of the album has more in common with the jazz of the late 1960s than the World War II era has more than a little to do with how brilliantly HUMMIN' TO MYSELF sounds.
After nearly thirty-eight years worth of recordings, it is brilliant to know that Linda is still in fine form. HUMMIN' TO MYSELF is vigorously recommended.
Free Music Review: There's No Voice Like This Blessed Gift...
Hit: 5 Stars
As a teenage boy who was smitten by Linda, as I'm sure most young guys were in the 70's, not much has changed from then until now, except for the fact I have a much better appreciation of her incredble god given talent.
I admire and respect a slew of singers from all genres of music but in my opinion, in my lifetime Linda Ronstadt is the finest singer on earth. When she hits those high notes she literally takes my breath away. And she does that quite often on this new...and absolutely wonderful album of pop standards. Her amazing voice is totally to the forefront here, backed by a wonderful band of musicians.
If you love Linda, and even if you are new to her, give this album a try. Linda is from an era when women actually had to be able to SING to get into the business..unlike today. Her musical catalog so far is nothing short of jaw dropping. She has done it all and continues to do so.
Now all that said, I hope her next album will be a return to rock.
There's no singer on earth like Linda. This album is highly recommended.
Free Music Review: Good as Olivia Newton-John's recent INDIGO
Hit: 5 Stars
Everybody wants to sing old standards but none has done it better than Linda Ronstandt and Olivia Newton-John in their latest releases. What a voices girls!!Free Music Review: OUR LADY OF SONG
Hit: 5 Stars
SUPERB VOCALS IN AN INTIMATE SETTING MARK THIS MONUMENTAL ALBUM FROM THE GREATEST AMERICAN VOCALIST OF ALL TIME. GREAT RANGE AND VARYING JAZZ STYLES WILL HAVE YOU GO FROM TOE-TAPPING TO SWAYING TO THE SULTRY AT TIMES MELANCHOLLY LYRICS!!!! A MUST HAVE!!!!Free Music Review: GREAT RECORD....
Hit: 5 Stars
Linda sounds fabulous. This is a "must have". Her voice is in great shape. I love this record.