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Vicky Mountain, James Allen, Sincerely Yours, CD NEW Sealed
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Located in: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Sealed
- UPC
- 0789577612129
About this product
Product Identifiers
Record Label
CD Baby, Cdb
UPC
0789577612129
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19046063284
Product Key Features
Format
CD
Release Year
2009
Genre
Jazz
Artist
Vicky Mountain & James Allen
Release Title
Sincerely Yours
Dimensions
Item Weight
0.21 lb
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks
10
Number of Discs
1
Tracks
I Thought About You, Love Potion #9, Willow Weep for Me, Don'cha Go 'Way Mad, When Your Lover Has Gone, Jitterbug Fantasy, Love Me or Leave Me, Yellow Days, Unchain My Heart, Sincerely Yours
Notes
What makes a jazz singer a "jazz" singer? It's a question that is readily answered by Vicky Mountain's third release, Sincerely Yours. Regardless of the song - be it a "classic" from the Great American songbook, a pop hit from the 60s, an R&B standard or an instrumental transcription-a jazz singer injects a personal story into the music, a story conveyed in the way each word, each phrase is shaped, in the way the singer weaves a mood and uses shades of rhythm and dynamics to further her tale. Here, Vicky, a veteran voice educator as well as seasoned vocalist, offers her lessons in the art (and she confirms it is an art) of turning song into conversation, poetry into prose, music into intimate theater. The lessons are stunningly enhanced by James Allen's agile and lyrical guitar, not a background prop but a full and swinging partner. The partnership extends beyond the studio and into the MacPhail Center for Music where Vicky and James are colleagues on the faculty. Young yet masterful bassist Graydon Peterson joins the pair on a darkly flavorful "When Your Lover Is Gone." What makes a jazz singer a jazz singer? Listen to Vicky Mountain. ? Andrea Canter, Minneapolis REVIEW FROM PAMELA ESPELAND'S BLOG "BEBOPIFIED" 10/16/09 Vocalist and MacPhail educator Vicky Mountain's new CD, Sincerely Yours (2009), is a pleasure from start to end. Her voice-which ranges from sultry chanteuse to little girl, bluesy mama to playful tease-is in fine form, her landings sure-footed, her articulation pristine (one of the things I especially enjoy about her singing), her song choices eclectic and enjoyable. Where else can you find "Willow Weep for Me" side-by-side with "Love Potion #9"? She scats smartly in all the right places (on the Illinois Jacquet/James Mundy tune "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" and the Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn standard "Love Me or Leave Me"), sings her own lyrics to Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz" (renamed "Jitterbug Fantasy") and gives it a music-hall ending, infuses "Love Me or Leave Me" with a fresh sense of urgency, and fills the Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Mercer fave "I Thought About You" with joyous anticipation instead of the usual regret. No worries; these lovers will meet again soon. Throughout, her background in theater shows: each song is a story, convincingly told. Each has it's own mood and emotional setting. And she gives us her full voice, from lush low notes to sweet high ones. For accompaniment, she chose one man and one instrument. MacPhail colleague James Allen's guitar is a full partner to Mountain's voice. He brings skill, sensitivity, and wit to the table; for the R&B classic "Unchain My Heart" (think Ray Charles), Allen frames the tune with bassist Jack Bruce's famous riff from the Cream song "Sunshine of Your Love." Clever and utterly unexpected. It's just the two of them on all but a single track, "When Your Lover Has Gone," when they add Graydon Peterson on bass (and give him room to stretch out on a solo). Voice and guitar add up to a warm and intimate recording, one you can get close to and take personally. A sampling of Mountain's lyrics for "Jitterbug Fantasy": A look, a turn, a phrase, a crooked smile, a certain way of walking and I think it's you but no, you're just a fantasy A joke you tell, the quiet laugh, a wink, the way you wear your hairdo and I think, it must be you, but it's just my fantasy And when I'm out I follow strangers down the street I wait on corners thinking that it's you I'll meet I never do, and all I get are sore feet Oh, where are you in my fantasy? And this choice couplet: It's getting hard to tell the real from the un And you know I'm not having any fun....
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