Linda Ronstadt - Hummin' to Myself
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Free Music Review: An OK album...OK for Linda, that is
Hit: 3 Stars
Any and all mainstream pop artists on the radio today would be proud to call this CD (and the accompanying voice) their own. Clearly, Linda Ronstadt does sound better on this CD than she did on her last "proper" studio album (which excludes "A Merry Little Christmas"), which was 1998's "We Ran". Back then, Linda sounded exhausted and disinterested. At least on this CD, she sings with more pep and interest, but the song choices (similarly on WR) are rather boring and uninspired. Don't get me wrong: Ronstadt still has a commanding voice; but after the 2nd song, I found myself having a hard time distinguising one song from the previous one. It starts out great with "Tell Him I Said Hello"--but quickly fades into a string of rather boring material. I am glad Linda put out a new CD--especially when I keep hearing rumors of her retirement. I just wish she would choose material that would get her great voice back on mainstream radio. She still clearly has the power to blow away any of the younger diva-wanabe's on today's mainstream radio.Free Music Review: unique for her
Hit: 5 Stars
Well, this isn't really like any other Ronstadt recording. Some folks may compare it to her earlier work with, say, Nelson Riddle. But those were full orchestrations. Here she uses a small jazz group, piano based. Picture here singing with Brad Mehldau or Fred Hersch. Her voice is superb, the arrangements as good. As Ronstadt gets older her voices has lost none of its virtues and she keeps getting her phrasing better and better. And the subtle dynamics between piano, bass, guitar, percussion and occasional horns/woodwinds, make this recording one of a kind. She nails the opening song, "Tell Him I Said Hello" - makes it her own and never looks back. This is the kind of recording that Diana Krall and Norah Jones seek to make. They are wonderfully talented. This recording, however, leads the way. It's okay to follow when the one up ahead is on such a golden path. Free Music Review: a great Ronstadt album
Hit: 5 Stars
This album has a real intimate feeling, as if the listener were sitting in a small jazz club. It avoids the schmaltz and breathes new life into these songs for those who remember them when they were new as well as those coming to them the first time around. A definite buy.Free Music Review: Jazz Equivalent to Heart Like a Wheel....Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
Part of appreciating this lady is not TRYING to understand her but just listening to the music she makes. As a rock star she could growl with the best of them and as she learned her interpretive trade she could sing with the best of them. This CD is really really excellent: Soulful, Very Well Sung, Great Sound Engineering, Good Song Selection and Unique.
The songs on this CD come in clearly. It's recorded in high form with some of the highest recording techniques around. Thanks to George Massenburg (engineer). Likewise, this CD can be played anywhere: restaurant, dinner party, pool party, summer, winter, etc. So this CD has good ambience.
Tell Him I said Hello - Originally recorded by Betty Carter. This is a soft sounding gem of a song.
Never will I Mary - A swingining hip tune.
Cry Me A River - No posturing. great tune. well sung.
Hummin to Myself - Great toe tapping, unique song.
Miss Otis - I like this songs interpretation. It's about a women that was strung up and hung. Very Dark.
I fall in Love to Easily - Very classy and sophisticated singing.
Blue Prelude - Bluesy Song
Day Dream - Never heard this song before but I like the light interpretation
Never been in Love - good interpretation. simple, straight.
Get out of Town - soulful, bluesy, rocking
I'll Be seeing you - Great straight forward interpretation
This really is a Soulful, Bluesy and Intimate Linda Ronstadt. I would highly recommend this CD.
Free Music Review: JAZZ WITH LITTLE PEP
Hit: 3 Stars
After the brouhaha in Las Vegas during a summer tour coinciding with a bitter election season, Linda Ronstadt, America's batty spinster aunt, seemed energized by her new role as rabblerousing imp, but the downbeat Hummin' To Myself is perhaps even more sleep-inducing than her Grammy-winning lullaby album. Ronstadt has never had an improvisational bent; consequently, she never truly inhabits these songs nor does she imbue these jazz standards with much personality, heartbreak or joy except to give them that Ronstadt stamp of an occasional full-throated note, although "Blue Prelude" comes close to sublime.