With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook

Weslia Whitfield | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 28, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: HighNote Records
• ASIN: B00001T39L
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,116 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz vocal perfection..., March 8, 2005

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Mr Caddilac - See all my reviews

This review is from: With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook (Audio CD)

Miss Wesla Whitfield has a lilting and gently swinging style, she understands the meaning of WORDS. As a Word of Faith person, I think Miss Whitfield really gets into her lyrics and beleives what she sings. Whitfield and her husband pianist arranger make some beautiful, sophistcated and classy jazz. This cd is perfect for romantic moods, and for parties. Miss Whitfield has a unique voice and is the greatest cabaret singer today, and she deserves the same recognition taht Diana Krall, and Jane Monheit have.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This cd is just so so, not the best not the worst, April 19, 2002

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joyce bennett (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook (Audio CD)

...Weslia has a very charmiing voice. It sounds like the voice of an angel. She really knows how to sing a passionate song.

Before I go any futher with my statements, I want to make a truce with the other fans of Weslia. These comments that follow are to be construcitve in nature, they are not intented to inflame anyone. At my age, I don't have any fight left in me.

As I have stated, Weslia has the voice, but is this all there is? Are the any other factors that should be involved in recording a good cd?

What about chemistry? What about chrisma? What about communications? How about expression? Does any of these items matter?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then you need to read on. If your answer was no, then you need not read any futher.

I have always felt like a big part of a good recording was the instrumentation that was used. Also, the tempo of the songs should come into play. One should ask that the tempos vary from song to song?

My ideal of good instrumentation would be these examples:

piano only; guitar only; bass only; violin only;
piano-bass; piano-violin; piano-guitar; trio;
quartet; acappella; acapella on first verse then acc.

These examples of various instrumentations, I feel should give any cd a much needed boost and should hopefully help keep the fans maximum attention.

You can call me crazy if you like, but this is me and this is what I like to hear in my music.

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT jazz oriented vocalist backed by the best..., April 17, 2002

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Aaron B. (u.s.a.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook (Audio CD)

Weska Whitfield is the greatest vocalist around today, she is a very jazz oriented singer, who really knows how to swing, and is able to bring you to tears with her touching ballad singing. Whitfiled has the rare gift of bringing the beauty out in each and every song she sings, never forgetting to sing the verses to songs. Her recordings are always a joy to hear as she has impeccable taste in picking a variety of well known and little known standards, and bringing out their inner beauty with her perfect phasing and perfect pitch. She possesses a pretty voice and her busband jazz pianist Mike Greensill always does her arrangements, he always puts her in a wonderful jazz setting, making all of her cd's essential. On this cd Wesla sings some great tunes by Rogers & Hart, thankfully she doesn't shoose one that have been overdone, she chooses a variety of well known and some lesser known gems, there's not a dud out of the bunch. This cd is definateky worth checking out. Do yourself a favor, and purchase this one.