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Ms. Bode will no doubt evolve and pursue a variety of styles in her singing career.
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Over And Over begins with a catchy song named Holiday, an original that features a chorus of background vocals, accentuating Bode’s mellow verse. The group follows with the title track, Over And Over, a mid-tempo ballad that showcases Bode’s fluid, lyrical phrasing. The group then offers a fresh arrangement of the popular song Graceland by Paul Simon. This rendition features the first of several solos by the gifted saxophonist Blake. The next original, June, begins with a soothing guitar intro and opens into a beautiful ballad highlighted by the playing of Eggar on cello and Blake on saxophone. Feet Off The Ground is a thoughtfully expressive original that features Maness on the Fender Rhodes. The pace slows with an entrancing ballad named Long, Long Time. The group shuffles along with the folk-infused original Send Me Up A Sign, which features Mease on acoustic guitar and background vocals. Bode pays homage to her hometown with the original ballad titled St. Louis Song.
The group follows with great energy on the upbeat original Perfect World, which features more dynamic playing by Blake. Something More is a simple mid-tempo tune that sways with the help of Maness on Hammond B-3. Bode and Maness team up for a soulful interpretation of the song Holding Back The Years made popular by Mick Hucknall of the band Simply Red. The playful song With The Radio On follows, featuring Mease on acoustic guitar. Drummer Higginbottom and Blake exchange some intense phrases on a dark rendition of the jazz standard Alone Together by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. The session closes with a beautiful song named Home Again, which features Dave Eggar on cello.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Smooth, confident album,
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Summary: Bode has an excellent voice that is well-served by her latest, mostly original album of jazz tunes with elements of folk and pop. Worth a purchase.Long version: "Over and Over" Several music websites list Bode as a "similar artist" to Norah Jones, which isn't an outlandish comparison. One difference between Bode and Jones, however, is that Bode's album seems far shorter than its 58:26 runtime would indicate. "Over and Over" possesses a subtle and pervasive energy that some other similar artists lack. Maybe the trick is Bode's voice, which is smooth, clear, and surgically precise. Whatever it is, the album is mellow without being drowsy. I was pleasantly surprised at the maturity of the songwriting on this outing, especially in the middle part of the album (all Bode/Maness tunes). Bode gave us one original on her last album, which wasn't really enough to get a sense of her songwriting ability. On "Over and Over", 11 of the 14 are originals, and 10 co-written by Bode. The original songs are the stars of the album this time around, and I wouldn't be surprised if "June", "Send Me Up a Sign", "Something More" and/or "With the Radio On" get some radio airtime on adult contemporary or smooth jazz stations. I'm a sucker for those vocal harmonies! The mixing and production are also well done. In fact, I only have one minor gripe about the album: the cover songs. I'm not crazy about any of the original versions of the cover songs, although Bode tempted me to like "Graceland". For a minute. At any rate, the cover songs are few, and don't really disrupt the flow of the album. The original songs are strong enough to justify 5 stars. It's cool to see an emerging star come from my hometown of St. Louis. Of course, they all go to New York or LA when they start to get famous, don't they... hmmm. Well, at least as long as she stops by the Lou on tour, I'm OK with it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Erin Bode - a rising star,
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I am not a hard core Jazz fan, but I love this album. Erin has her own style with a fresh and refreshing sound. I would not compare her music to any contemporary artist, but to the much missed Laura Nyro.The album contents have been accurately described by others, so I won't go there. The first song alone is worth the cost of the disk. If you like this style of music, you will not be disappointed. If you don't, you probably aren't reading this!
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An album for those with open minds and open ears,
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Like Cassandra Wilson, Erin Bode records for a jazz label but does not fit easily into any readily identifiable musical bag. Where Wilson is earthy and sultry, Bode is light and feathery. She has a definite jazz sensibility, in a Tierney Sutton kind of way, but her choice of material and instrumentation places her over on the singer/songwriter side of the musical spectrum. Think Indigo Girls, Norah Jones without pretension, Jim Croce's serious side, Brazilian chanteuse Astrud Gilberto.The St. Louis-based songstress cowrote ten of the fourteen songs on this CD with pianist Adam Maness, and they are striking in their melodic originality and lyrical playfulness. ("There must be something more, something wonderful in store; a fantiferous sensation that will knock me on the floor.") I fell in love with her approach to other people's songs on her first album, Don't Take Your Time, but here the original material gets inside your skin and just makes you feel good, even when she's giving a lover the kiss-off in "Perfect World." The opening "Holiday" is a hit song waiting for a radio format to fit into. Her rich reinvention of Paul Simon's "Graceland" built on Maness' left hand piano lines doubled by acoustic bass is irresistible, and her melancholy reading of "Holding Back the Years" (remember Simply Red?) accompanied only by acoustic guitar (Maness again) is compelling. I like the touch of cello here and there, and Seamus Blake deserves to be singled out for his fine tenor sax work on a number of tunes. Originally published in Port Folio Weekly, 4/11/06 copyright 2006 Port Folio Weekly. Used by Permission.
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