|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Get $1 in Amazon MP3 credit with qualifying purchase. Limited to one promotional credit per customer. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Al Jarreau's style bridges Jon Hendricks's vocalese and Bobby McFerrin's incredible flights of fancy. This CD, with Diana Krall's rhythm section--guitarist Anthony Wilson, drummer Peter Erskine, and bassist Christian McBride--should please fans of albums like Jarreau's phenomenal 1977 live LP, Look to the Rainbow. Duke Ellington's "I'm Beginning to See the Light" is illuminated by Larry Goldings's down-home Hammond organ, while Lionel Hampton's "Midnight Sun" bops with hip-hop-friendly rim shots. Jarreau's tenor tones curve with saxophonic dexterity and pulse with percussive precision, especially on Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High," where he slyly drops in a few words from the old show tune, "Whispering." --Eugene Holley, Jr.
Product Description
JARREAU AL ACCENTUATE THE POSSITIVE
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Anything he he sings gives me chills -,
This review is from: Accentuate the Positive (Audio CD)
Al Jarreau has always had top priority for my ears straight to my heart. He can take a song and turn it into his own expert opinion of how that song should be sung. This particluar cd focuses on some great jazz, some from the 40's, and he interprets it all with so much grace. "Accentuate the Positive" is jazz, pure and simple. My favorite track is "My Foolish Heart" and for good reason - his vocal skill is like a beacon through that melody. Al Jurreau's supple vocal is perfect, some amazing tenor saxophone from Keith Anderson doesn't hurt.
The stunning ensemble here is too spectacular to go without notice or note: Christian McBride, David Carpenter, on bass; Anthony Wilson on guitar; Tollak Ollestad on harmonica; Luis Conte jazz percussion; Russell Ferrante on piano; Peter Erskine, Mark Simmons on drums; Larry E. Williams, Larry Willison on keyboards; and Larry Goldings on hammond organ. (Trivia note: Peter Erskine, Anthony Wilson and Christian McBride also appear on Diana Krall's "Girl in the Other Room.) I love Al Jurreau's latest "All I Got" R&B theme cd also produced by Tommy LiPuma. "Accentuate the Positive" though moves from blues jazz tracks like "Cold Duck" to soft gentle ballads like "My Foolish Heart" and funkified jazz like the remake "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive." There is something bascially so indescribably delicious about this cd. The musicality is so seamless, seems so pulled-together to me, yet so flexible and emotively seems buoyantly spontaneous. Outstanding. Gotta own. Right now.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow!,
By CD Nut (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Accentuate the Positive (Audio CD)
Pay no attention to anyone who has rated this less than 5 stars. I'm at work...it's 12 AM and I need to get home. Yet this CD rocks and I don't want to leave. What can I say...his band backing him up is great...his scat is smooth and crisp and not nutty...his voice sounds like velvet...smooth like the Velvet Fog....very very nice. Be prepared to be hypnotized by the CD. Should be CD of the year. Everything else is crap compared to this.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Manna from Heaven!,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Accentuate the Positive (Audio CD)
I picked this CD out of my mailbox at 2 pm today, it is now midnight and I am still listening to it! Thank goodness for that repeat button. "Betty Bebop's Song" is a poignant tribute to songbird Betty Carter. "Midnight Sun" - what can I say? I had to play that one alone for a couple of hours. Tollak Ollestad on harmonica had me thinking Toots, very lazy, extremely sensuous (Dee Dee Bridgewater also does a steamy rendition on "Dear Ella"). This CD has opened my eyes to some older material, i.e., "Accentuate the Positive" - who'd a thunk it? Absolutely fabulous as only the inimitable Jarreau could accomplish such a feat! "I'm Beginning to See the Light" - Larry Goldings and Anthony Wilson definitely get it together and AJ does it so effortlessly (for him). I did, however, think I was about to hear "You Don't See Me" when "Groovin' High" started, but after the intro, that thought was no longer . . . . If you are a serious Jarreau fan, DO NOT WASTE ANOTHER MOMENT, pure heaven. . . Amen
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
