Artist: Janis Siegel & Fred Hersch
Album: Slow Hot Wind
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Varese Sarabande
Released: 1995
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. For All We Know (Coots-Lewis) - 5:20
02. Who Are You (Kohanna-Wheeler)/I Remember You (Mercer-Schertzinger) - 6:46
03. For No One (Lennon-McCartney) - 5:33
04. Slow Hot Wind (Gimbel-Mancini)/Moon and Sand (Engvick-Wilder) - 5:59
05. The Shining Sea (Lee-Mandel) - 4:09
06. Goldmine (Warren) - 4:19
07. Agua (Walsh-Djavan) - 6:21
08. Sister Moon (Sting) - 5:39
09. Alone Together (Dietz-Schwartz) - 5:53
10. Love Came on Stealthy Fingers (Dorough) - 5:11
11. Make Sure You're Sure (Wonder) - 5:43
12. Softly as I Leave You (Calabrese-Shaper-DeVita)/Not Like This (Lubbock) - 4:04
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Personnel:
Janis Siegel - vocals
Fred Hersch - piano
Tony Dumas - bass (#2,4,8,10)
Ralph Penland - drums (#2,4,8,10)
Singer Janis Siegel (taking time off from The Manhattan Transfer) and pianist Fred Hersch make for a complementary team on this CD, supporting and occasionally challenging each other. The sources of the compositions they interpret (many are of fairly recent vintage) stretch from Sting and Stevie Wonder to Johnny Mercer and there are quite a few middle-of-the-road pop ballads although Siegel gets to break loose on "Moon and Sand." But overall this well-played and often impressionistic music is consistently melancholy, a bit dull and often outside of jazz without all that much improvisating taking place.
Review by Scott Yanow