Robin McKelle - Modern Antique
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Artist: Robin McKelleEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-10-25
Music Label: Cheap Lullaby
Soundtracks:
- Abracadabra
- Comes Love
- I Want To Be Loved
- Lover Man
- Cheek To Cheek
- Day By Day
- Save Your Love For Me
- Go To Hell
- Lullaby Of Birdland
- Make Someone Happy
- Remember
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Free Music Review: Jazz Times Review - August 2008!
Hit: 5 Stars
Jazz Times, August 2008
She's a Berklee grad and a Thelonius Monk Vocal Jazz Competition
finalist. She often sounds a lot like Anita O'Day, except when she
sounds eerily like Nancy Wilson. She's blessed with O'Day's
indefatigable verve as well as her innate sense of swing, and echoes
Wilson's relaxed authority. Two years ago, she delivered a dynamite
debut disc, Introducing Robin McKelle, embracing a retro big-band vibe
with the ease and intelligence of a softer-edged Bette Midler. Now
she's back with a second big-band effort even better than the first.
Willie Murillo, who steered much of the previous album, again serves
as principal arranger. But Chris Barron, Gordon Goodwin, Randy
Waldman, pianist Alain Mallet and McKelle herself also contribute
arrangements; and remarkably, considering the number of cooks stirring
the pot, the results are not only consistently good but also
seamlessly consistent. For fans of gorgeous standards lovingly
nestled in ideal settings and sung with impeccable beauty and style,
Modern Antique is essential listening. But McKelle and company go a
few captivating steps further: first by transforming rocker Steve
Miller's '80s chart-toppet "Abracadabra" into three-and-a-half minutes
of pure, inventive jazz pleasure; then by doubling the strength of
the Nina Simone anthem "Go to Hell" by defusing its anger and
replacing it with assured wisdom; and, finally, by exiting on tiptoe
(just McKelle on vocals and piano, supported by a gentle wave of
strings) with the tenderly reflective, self-penned ballad "Remember."
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Robin McKelle comes out swinging on her second disc of big band jazz Modern Antique. The bassist plucks some fat rich chords the pianist skitters over the keysand McKelle herself confidently scats over the melody while the horn section eggs her on. The mood is playfully flirtatious just this side of naughty. The entire combo is having so much fun and so are you that the tune is almost over before you realize it s an ingenious re-arrangement of Steve Miller s seventies classic Abracadabra. That opening gambit sets the tone for everything that follows: The singer has created a stylistically ambitious follow-up to her debut while still managing to evoke and honor the forties big-band sound she explored on the remarkable Introducing Robin McKelle. There are more rhythm and blues touches revealing McKelles torchy side and she concludes the album with a self-penned ballad ( Remember ) that fits in comfortably with the American Songbook gems that precede it. Modern Antique will impress the ever-growing audience who ve already discovered McKelle -- via National Public Radio her glowing press notices or good old word of mouth -- and it should attract the even wider audience in the U.S. she clearly deserves.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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