Big Bad & Blues [Live]

Baby Jane Dexter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Quannacut
• ASIN: B000004CMY
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Painted Lady

2. Live the Life I Sing About in My Song

3. Do Right Woman

4. Throw It Away

5. One Meatball

6. Take a Look

7. Wish Someone Would Care

8. Walk a Mile in My Shoes

9. Damn Your Eyes

10. Dirty Man

11. Blues in the Night

12. Something to Live For

13. Big Body Woman

14. More

15. Live the Life... (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing, December 19, 2005

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ML "Michael" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Bad & Blues (Audio CD)

I think the critics can say it better than I can. Read on:

"Ultimately, Big, Bad & Blue, Live! is every bit about the cabaret experience and its intimacy. Dexter bonds with her audience on many levels, practically introducing the SRO crowd to one another.. fueled by a brilliant sense of dynamics and emotive sensitivity....Dexter's performance is an emotionally charged, soul-stirring thing to behold." Mike Bieber, JAZZIZ, June 1998.

"With a meticulously chosen, eclectic set of songs -- from some unlikely sources as well as the likes of Strayhorn/Ellington -- Dexter accomplishes what she always sets out to do: Create an emotional bond with her audience, a la cabaret, but via musicality rather than imposed anguish....Her songs are as much dramatic performances as they are pop music...It's tough to figure out which is more remarkable, Baby Jane Dexter's new show or the fact she isn't signed to a major label." John Anderson, Newsday, Jan. 1998.

"Wait till you feel Dexter's chilling reading of the Ellington-Strayhorn classic 'Something to Live For,' or Abbey Lincoln's piercing 'Throw It Away.' It's devastating Dexter at her best." John Hoglund. Bistro Bits, Back Stage.