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In Reply to: RE: Ordered 3 45 RPM Records - Wallet's Smoking posted by Rockethead26 on November 30, 2016 at 17:02:38
if you look at her records from a quality of recording aspect, they are great.
great musicians, excellent recordings on vinyl and SACD, fantastic recording engineer (Al Schmidt!) BUT the performances leave a LOT to be desired. she just doesn't have the drive to propel the music. there are some good moments and rather than jazz, i think she should concentrate on the showtune crowd as in the amanda mc broom records on sheffield.
so it could be ME, i cannot stand amanda nor listening to that kind of music much. for jazz you should try patricia barber and anne bisson. we cold insert diana krall but her recordings have been played to death and many of us can't stand to hear her much more.
that doesn't include me because i have made it a point to NOT play her discs all the time. girl in the other room is about her best work, tempation being the hot number.
i have lyn's first two LPs , the first bought right from her personally and signed, the other i won in our raffle at one of our LA/OCAS meetings, it is also signed. the second better than the first but not enough to compel me to buy the third. i will admit that i have not heard the potions and cannot rule it out as an entertainment value in jazz.
...regards...tr
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good call on those singers.
what about holly cole ?
oyes, holly cole is great too and she has LPs available. melody gardot is one i haven't mentioned and i think she is in the wonderful category too. and all her releases are on vinyl too.
...regards...tr
I agree about Lyn Stanley's work. I bought Potions to help her Kickstarter effort and I enjoy the production quality and a few of the songs performance wise, but, as you, don't find her compelling enough to buy a second or third.
I'll check out Anne Bisson, but I cannot get in to Patricia Barber at all. The only Diana Krall I currently have on LP is "Live in Paris" which I like a lot and just played again last night.
These other fine artists mentioned have sponsors. Lyn is footing the entire bill for her productions! She has had many challenges that she has overcome, the drive that you mention is within her. For pure romance she is hard to beat, but continues to expand to other songs and genres...
Good thing to have her music for when romance is a main priority :)
live in paris is quite special to me. as i was attracted to her i also felt that she was too perfectly polished in the early albums i had gotten good but in a way; too perfect. jeff hamilton and john clayton (a wonderful person in my estimation) had overproduced the albums to flawless perfection.
that's what bothered me and i wanted to see a more human source of the music. quite surprisingly, it happened on its own, i saw her perform on the pbs series 'sessions at west 54th'. there she was. ALIVE and showing it with ever so slight imperfections (tousled hair, little bits of timing that wasn't metronomic. a HUMAN performing in a most enticing way she was.
live in paris was later released and again, a live person was performing and captivated me. i gave out xmas presents of that dvd that year and i still marvel over it. that Al Schmidt engineered it was a feather in that cap, the sound and musical presentation is second to none.
notice that lyn stanley ALSO employed the master, Al Schmidt and that plus the choice of great accompanying musicians, did make the instrumental part of her performances shine brilliantly.
i am hoping that lyn can develop into the artist she aspires to be.
...regards...tr
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