Between the Sun & The Moon

Brenda Russell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Narada
• ASIN: B0002Y4T7Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The eighth studio album from singer/songwriter Brenda Russell, one of the most played jazz female artists with Norah Jones, Sade and Diana Krall. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Awesome Album, April 18, 2005

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James Fenos "music freak" (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between the Sun & The Moon (Audio CD)

This album has two things going for me outside of the glorious music it contains, it features my two of my favorite girl singers Patti Autin and Brenda, and this album features two cuts from prior albums released as compilations. "Tracks Of My Tears" from "A Twist Of Motown," and "It's A Jazz Day" from the Zebra release "A Song A Day," which is really hard to find. I found Brenda late in her career, I heard "Piano In The Dark" on an A/C channel while living in Cincinnati and I had to have the cd. I bought the vinyl version first and the cd much later. After soaking in every note of that album, "Get Here," I had to investigate and have every album Brenda's ever recorded. At that time, much to my dismay, only her debut album from A&M existed and that was because it contained the minor hit "So Good, So Right." I had to wait until "Kiss Me With The Wind" was released to soak in more of her, by this time I had discovered Michael Franks and the sultry duet he and Brenda recorded titled "When I Give My Love To You" which was an A/C hit in it's own right. When Brenda's contract with A&M came to an end they released her "Greatest Hits" album which is a compilation of her 1979 debut, "Get Here," and "Kiss Me With The Wind," all tracks were nicely mastered but that cd really is unnecessary. Brenda has been label hopping ever since and it gets a bit annoying. She was on EMI, Hidden Beach, which is a subsid of Sony so I don't blame her for one-offing that label, now she's on Narada Jazz which is really artist supportive so let's hope she stays for a while and releases more albums of the caliber of the one in which I'm taking the long way around to review. This cd, "Between The Sun And The Moon" is superb, even the tracks lifted from the two previous projects fit here, the end result is a balanced album that experiments in jazz fusion and Afro-rhythms. The title track has a vocal breakdown the would make Paul Simon proud; Brenda's vocals are strong and sure throughout the entire body of work, the engineering is incredible.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MAKE ME SMILE...YES SHE DOES, October 8, 2004

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B. Jones "Boulovani" (MEMPHIS, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between the Sun & The Moon (Audio CD)

This is an excellent cd....I thought it couldnt get any better than ''Paris Rain'' boy was I wrong!! Her voice is sweet,so beautiful and rich....I love the collaboration with Patti Austin ''Between The Sun And The Moon...just perfect....''Make u smile''...''too cool 4 the room''...''i know u by heart''...the remake of the smoky robinson and the miracles hit''The Tracks of My Tears''is perfection....This is the kind of music that intelligent folks with discriminating tastes like.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brenda Returns With More Power and Shows off God's Talent, December 8, 2004

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Mark T. Carboni "Carbo-charged musiclover" (Fort Wayne, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between the Sun & The Moon (Audio CD)

When Paris Rain was released, 2000, the bar was raised. Russell showed amazing writing skills and her voice could not have been in finer form. 2004, Brenda broke through the roof, with tremendous vigor, life and instrumentation that layers stunning vocals with perfect craftsmanship on piano, horns and other pieces to round out the best album of her career. On "Its a Jazz Day", it is apparent that she has etched a new classic for the halls of fame. Selecting words that conjur deep feelings and emotions, coupled with her amazing vocals, it is a track that you will listen to over and over. "Tracks of My Tears" balances what Motown was and now what Motown should be. One listen and you hear commercial success!
I highly recommend this CD for your collection. It should be one of the only CDS you keep a copy in your car and in your home.