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Shirley Horn's meeting with a string section and an orchestra arranged by Johnny Mandel has some exquisite moments although sometimes it is just overly sweet. Horn recorded with her trio (which includes bassist Charles Ables and drummer Steve Williams) first, emphasizing slow ballads. Mandel used the pianist-vocalist's improvisations and chord voicings as the basis for his charts and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis took guest solos on "A Time for Love" and "Quietly There." Shirley Horn fans will love this CD (which includes such numbers as "Here's To Life," "How Am I To Know" and "If You Love Me") but no real surprises or contrast occurs. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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| Devotchka's music has always had a cinematic quality, first unveiled to major audiences as part of the successful indie flick "Little Miss Sunshine". The last track on that soundtrack was "How It Ends" and since then, its melancholic vocal nuances have been a recurrent inspiration, also used in the "Everything Is Illuminated" trailer. Its most original synchronization to date has to be the recent "Gears Of War 2" commercial. Maybe an odd choice to end up as background music for audiovisual battles against aliens, but Nick Urata's tenor grandeur and the fine strings and piano arrangements added a shockingly new epic dimension to the sophisticated, computer-generated images of the popular Xbox videogame. ©2008 Shazam Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved. | |
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