Brazil

John Pizzarelli, Rosemary Clooney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B00004TQYE
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,184 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #91 in Music > Indie Music > Broadway & Vocalists

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Media Type: CD
Artist: CLOONEY/PIZZARELLI
Title: BRAZIL
Street Release Date: 06/06/2000
Domestic
Genre: JAZZ

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Summer Album!, August 2, 2000

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Anthony W. (Mount Vernon, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Brazil (Audio CD)

This album is so magnificent that it's hard to think of a better person to tackle this material in the new millenium but Rosemary Clooney. The warmth of her voice is a fine substitute for whatever she's lost from her early days. Her knowledge of the songs from the Brazillian songbook is quite apparent, as each ballad is very intimate and thoughtful while she can still swing with the best of them. Her pairing with John Pizzarelli throughout the album is fabulous when he accompanies her on his guitar and on his own songs on the album, but really shines when the two voices are coupled on Desifinado, One Note Samba, Let Go, Waters of March, and the reprise of Brazil. Her duet with singer-pianist Diana Krall on The Boy From Ipanema is the perfect song for the two. This is the album that will define my summer and will surely get the same amount of playing time through the year. Thank God for Rosemary Clooney.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF HER BEST, July 28, 2000

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MOVIE MAVEN (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Brazil (Audio CD)

Rosemary Clooney is STILL one of the few great pop singing sylists recording. And this album is one of her best. Dedicated to Sinatra, Nelson Riddle and Antonio Carlos Jobim, it is very much like one of those "theme" albums that Sinatra recorded---16 songs with one thematic thread. Obviously the thread that binds all of these songs together is the music of Brazil. Gorgeous music, perfectly performed by Clooney, her orchestra,and two young jazz notables: Diana Krall and John Pizzarelli. My personal favorites in the album are the title song and her duet with Krall ("The Boy From Ipanema") where Clooney seems actually to have shed 10-15 years and a splendid arrangement of the Cole Porter classic, "I Concentrate on You." But, on a second hearing, every number on the album is top notch.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible...but no surprise there!, June 10, 2000

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M. Walsh - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brazil (Audio CD)

Pizzarelli sang and played a duet for us on Clooney's "Do You Miss NY?"...It's about time they met again. The best of our link to the jazz age past and the best of today's mix and mingle on this CD. John Pizzarelli's unique swinging sound perfectly complements the voice of Clooney that has seen and known so much. Don't miss it.