FileCat premium

Karen Blixt - Spin This (2006) [Vocal Jazz]; FLAC (image+.cue)

Vocal Jazz
User avatar
Mike1985
Uploader
Posts: 70795
Joined: 24 Jan 2016, 16:51

Karen Blixt - Spin This (2006) [Vocal Jazz]; FLAC (image+.cue)

Unread postby Mike1985 » 28 Jan 2017, 14:38


Artist: Karen Blixt
Album: Spin This
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: HiFli Records
Released: 2006
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. Singin' the Blues (Basie-Durham-Hendricks) - 4:36
  2. Carefully Taught (Rodgers-Hammerstein) - 5:14
  3. My Favorite Things (Rodgers-Hammerstein) - 4:13
  4. You Don't Know Me (Arnold-Walker) - 5:53
  5. Night and Day (Porter) - 8:24
  6. Spin This (Martin-Blixt) - 4:37
  7. It's Over Now (Well, You Needn't) (Monk-Ferro) - 3:47
  8. Now It's Over - 0:22
  9. When You're Smiling (Fisher-Goodwin-Shay) - 6:59
  10. Kitchen Blue (Martin-Blixt) - 4:04
  11. Four (Davis-Hendricks) - 4:57
  12. I Thought About You (Van Heusen-Mercer) - 5:23
  13. Something So True (Martin-Blixt) - 4:19

DOWNLOAD FROM FILECAT.NET >>>

    Personnel:
  • Karen Blixt - vocals
  • Joey DeFrancesco - Hammond B-3 organ (#1,4,8,10)
  • Russell Ferrante - piano (#2-3,6,9,12)
  • Frank Martin - Fender Rhodes (#3,6), piano (#4-5,10)
  • Buddy Montgomery - vibes (#8), piano (#11)
  • Bruce Forman - guitar (#1)
  • Darek Oles (#2,9), Brian Bromberg (#12) - acoustic bass
  • Troy Lampkins - electric bass (#3,6)
  • Will Kennedy (#1-3,9-10), Byron Landham (#4) - drums
  • Alex Acuna - percussion (#1-3,5-7,10,12), drums (#5,7,12)
  • Paul McCandless - English horn (#5), bass clarinet (#7), oboe (#12)
  • Sheldon Brown - bass clarinet (#5,7)
  • Joe Herbert - cello (#5,12)

Appearances can be deceiving when it comes to music. In some photos, Karen Blixt sports a singer/songwriter-ish type of look -- the sort of folk-rock or adult alternative look that one might have if she were opening for Sarah McLachlan, Jonatha Brooke, Patty Larkin or the Indigo Girls. Well, there is certainly nothing wrong with opening for any of those artists -- a lot of young singer/songwriters would kill for the opportunity -- but Blixt's debut album, Spin This, has nothing to do with folk-rock or adult alternative. The Bay Area resident is clearly a hardcore jazz vocalist; Blixt has the type of post-bop/hard bop hipness one associates with Sheila Jordan, Kitty Margolis, Judy Niemack and Karrin Allyson, sometimes adding a touch of soul-jazz. Blixt (who is joined by organist Joey DeFrancesco on four of the tracks) doesn't get as deeply into soul-jazz as Ernestine Anderson or Dee Dee Bridgewater, but the soul-jazz element is definitely present on Count Basie's "Swingin' the Blues" and a few other tracks. Blixt pays a little too much attention to warhorses for her own good; "Night and Day," "When You're Smiling" and "I Thought About You" have been so beaten to death over the years that most of the younger jazz singers would do well to avoid them. But Blixt does offer her share of surprises; "Carefully Taught" is a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein tune that hasn't been overdone, and the title track (which Blixt co-wrote with pianist/keyboardist Frank Gayer Martin) is a clever but angry political rant with an Eddie Jefferson-ish vibe. Also quite engaging is Blixt and Martin's melancholy "Kitchen Blue." Despite its excess of warhorses, Spin This is a generally promising debut and makes one hope that Blixt's catalog will grow to be much larger.

Return to “Vocal Jazz (lossless - FLAC, APE, etc.)”