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A Real Lady Of Jazz Singing: The True Spirit of Song,
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: SongSpirit (Audio CD)
Sathima Bea Benjamin is a legend in her native South Africa and after having the pleasure of listening to this superb collection of excerpts from her career of recording, this listener is amazed to discover a 70 year old lady of song about whom I've heard nothing!
Benjamin is a stylist who works so intricately well with her small jazz ensembles that she transports us to the intimacy of a cabaret. Her voice is rich and in the mezzo range, creamy and pliant and capable of embracing both slow and fast pieces with ease. 'I Got it Bad and that Ain't Good' is mournful and elegant and as accompanied here by the composer Duke Ellington this version is probably as correct and real as any ever sung. It is meltingly beautiful. Other standouts on this 12 track, well-recorded CD include a strange approach to 'Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life' (think Victor Herbert in a blues/jazz idiom!), 'It Never Entered My Mind' with Abdullah Ibrahim (her husband) at the piano, 'Lush Life', a trio of African works ('Africa', 'Music' and 'Children of Soweto'), and a terrific 'Loveless Love, Careless Love'. The associated musicians are excellent especially when the influence of African rhythms in the drumming enters oh so subtly. Meet Sathima Bea Benjamin - unless you already know her - and in either case this is a fine, fine recording! Grady Harp, December 06
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