Tony Desare - Last First Kiss
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Artist: Tony DesareEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- Kiss
- Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Let's Just Say It
- Come On Strong
- I'll Never Have Enough Of You
- Oh Look At Me Now
- How Deep Is The Ocean
- Last First Kiss
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- I Feel The Earth Move
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Lover's Lullabye
Free Music Notes for Last First Kiss
Free Music Review: DeSare's Creative and Winesome "Kiss"
Hit: 5 Stars
Prime Cuts: Kiss, Lover's Lullaby, Last First Kiss
Comparisons with Michael Buble abound when it comes to DeSare. Sharing the same silver-screen good looks, DeSare like Buble is a nifty neo-crooner really to swoon the hopeless romantic with his suave and sensual tenor. However, on closer observation, DeSare is very an artist who does stand his own ground. Whilst the singing of standards from the American songbook is in ascendancy amongst many artists today, DeSare has a knack for selecting the right songs that he can properly transform into edible works that avoid a cheesy aftertaste. Even when he does a cover, DeSare is not restricted to the bygone era of the Sinatras and Fitzgeralds. Rather, ingenuity has favorable hand in DeSare's choice: who would have thought that Prince's "Kiss" and Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move" would ever qualify for inclusion on a contemporary jazz CD? Further, unlike other crooners, DeSare writes his own material with four originals making their way into the assembly of these 13 tracks.
Tampering with Prince's catalog can be risky as his repertoire bears the purple-highnesses indelible signature sound that few can dissociate. However, hats are off to DeSare who has transformed "Kiss," an iconic funk hit into a slow-down organ driven shuffle. Further, Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move," often interpreted as a high-energy uptempo, gets an almost unrecognizable makeover. Brooding and languid, DeSare brings down the Richter scale down quite a few notches on this ode to the prowess of love. With effective use of piano punctuations to create a lilting feel, DeSare brings out the inherent humor of the self-congratulatory "Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You" cogently. Though more orthodox is DeSare's read of the familiar Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean," it is nevertheless not delivered without emotions.
In an unprecedented move, DeSare contributes 4 of his own originals. Best of which is the title track, a Billy Joel-like piano dominated ballad that flourishes on DeSare's intricate use of words to depict a romantic evening ending with the protagonist giving his paramour the "last first kiss." With a paean like this, DeSare shows that romance is very much alive and well. Adopting the maxim that "more is less," the two and a half minute-long "Lover's Lullaby" may not be long to put one to sleep, but its hymn-like overtones is not only amorous but affirming. While on the Broadway-styled "Let's Just Stay In," finds DeSare coming close to Barry Manilow-terrain in his dictation.
With this Telarc release, DeSare shows that he does not read the American songbook as if they were monotonous syllables. Rather, when it's a Berlin or Porter tune, he sings with creativity. Nevertheless, what is most appealing about "Last First Kiss" is that DeSare allows his personality to bring out the songs rather than vice versa. Regardless of the sui genesis of these 13 tracks, DeSare sings them as if they were his own. Never to be accused of professional karaoke, DeSare shows that he can transform any song--Prince or Carole King or Frank Sinatra--and make them sound conterminous with a DeSare composition. This is the divide between an artist and a hack.
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