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Beatle fans love to explain that the key to the successful partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney was their contrasting songwriting personalities-Lennon was the tongue-in-cheek sardonic wit, McCartney the earnest balladeer. On John Pizzarelli Meets the Beatles, a sharply conceived tribute which sets the duo's classics in a jazz trio and big band arrangements, the singer/guitarist hits the mark more often when he's taking on the Lennon persona. He approaches "Cant' Buy Me Love," "When I'm 64" and "Get Back" with a playful wink, jumping off his speedy melody lines and the rising brass sections for extended improvisational tradeoffs with pianist Ray Kennedy-adding colorful touches like scatting and even adlibbing his own lyrical verses based on the originals. Likewise, he attacks the all instrumental "Eleanor Rigby" with a jumpy, swinging aggression. Pizzarelli, however, becomes overly schmaltzy in presenting ballads like "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" and "Long And Winding Road" too seriously, with maudlin, straightforward arrangements that grind the party to a halt. The one exception is the more percussive Oh Darling, where his intense vocal helps the tune rise above the hotel lounge mentality. ~ Jonathan Widran, All Music Guide
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| 1. Can't Buy Me Love |
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| 2. I've Just Seen A Face |
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| 3. Here Comes The Sun |
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| 4. Things We Said Today |
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| 5. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away |
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| 6. Eleanor Rigby |
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| 7. And I Love Her |
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| 8. When I'm |
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| 9. Oh Darling |
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| 10. Get Back |
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| 11. Love And Winding Road |
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| 12. For No One |
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Another Way To Die Alicia Keys & Jack White |
| When Jack White and Alicia Keys were asked to write the theme to the latest Bond film, Quantum of Solace, it wasnt exactly the straightforward task you might imagine. Not only did they have to take the place of a much anticipated effort from Amy Winehouse, which predictably never materialised, they were also faced with the challenge of writing a theme for one of the most awkwardly phrased Bond films of all time. Quantum of Solace hardly rolls off the tongue after all! The result is a workmanlike effort that draws on many trademark elements of both the Bond franchise and the musicians musical repertoire. With snarling guitar riffs from Jack, overblown vocals and twinkling piano from Alicia and a few orchestral style stabs that hark back to the original John Barry theme, Another Way to Die is equal but no better than the sum of its parts. Despite popjustice.com branding the track the worst Bond theme of all time this song will fulfil its design brief when the credits to the film are rolling as it has enough OTT touches to make the expensive graphics look cool. | |
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