All Artists: Freddy Cole Title: Rio De Janeiro Blue Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Telarc Release Date: 5/22/2001 Genres: Jazz, Pop Styles: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 089408352522 |
Freddy Cole Rio De Janeiro Blue Genres: Jazz, Pop
Freddy Cole is a marvelous singer, combining consummate ease with a lyric and acute sense of melodic and rhythmic phrasing. Whether it's the lost love of the title song or the reliable romance of Cole Porter's "I Concent... more » | |
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Amazon.com Freddy Cole is a marvelous singer, combining consummate ease with a lyric and acute sense of melodic and rhythmic phrasing. Whether it's the lost love of the title song or the reliable romance of Cole Porter's "I Concentrate on You," Cole's warm baritone creates the impression that everything he sings has been made up on the spot, as if every lyric is the current sum of his thoughts and experiences. That conversational art is much in evidence in this mix of Brazilian and jazz tunes, extending to the way Cole interacts with his sidemen and they with him. There are two basic groups here, an all-star Latin septet with arrangements by pianist Arturo O'Farrill and Cole's own working quartet, but there are also several permutations in between. O'Farrill's work is tailor-made to Cole's throaty voice, mixing it with contrasting flute and guitar and complementary trombone timbres, the latter provided by Angel "Papa" Vazquez, just one of several superb soloists. Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander adds inventive, hard-swinging tenor to "I Concentrate"; Joe Beck's guitars define the delicacy of Jobim's "Sem Voce," sung here in the original Portuguese; and O'Farrill's piano is a dancing delight whenever it comes to the fore. Cole's own spare piano is almost as effective as his voice, a compellingly understated force on "Wild Is Love" and "There, I've Said It Again." --Stuart Broomer Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsFreddy is Fabulous 08/16/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Every track is superb on this cd. I think that Freddy has pulled himself out of the shadow of his brother and is standing in the spotlight alone with a fantastic recording. His voice is mature and sensuous. He makes you believe he is singing for you only, telling you of his life experiences. Bravo Freddy!!!"
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