Sweet Home Cookin

Karrin Allyson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006MX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,337 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful phrasing, February 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Sweet Home Cookin (Audio CD)

I first heard Karrin Allyson on Piano Jazz on NPR. I didn't get the her name at first, so I spent the next three weeks trying to figure out who she was.

I was so impressed with her voice that I bought a portable CD player and a car adopter just so I could listen to this album at my work and in my car.

She has a sweet voice, but her phrasing is exquisite. Because of her, my 9 year old son has become a jazz fan, and "Yeh Yeh" is one of his favorite tracks.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, cookin' tracks, May 11, 2003

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"kiwimuzo" (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Home Cookin (Audio CD)

This CD was my first introduction to Karrin Allyson - I found it in a bargain bin, which turned out to be a travesty as this is a great album. The faster tracks (especially 'One Note Samba'and 'Yeh Yeh') are witty and agile, but it's the ballads that distinguish this from the others. I haven't heard many more soulful versions of 'I Cover the Waterfront' or 'Dindi', and Ellington's classic 'In A Sentimental Mood' receives wistful treatment here. With a great band (including New Zealand's own Alan Broadbent on piano!), clever arrangements, and Allyson's straight-forward, no-fuss yet dolcissimo voice, this CD will be oft-played if you like your jazz served clean and accessible.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable vocal jazz, but NOT FOR STEREO SACD setups., July 5, 2005

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Hangya (Hungary, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sweet Home Cookin (Hybr) (Audio CD)

This vocal jazz album of Karrin Allyson is enjoyable enough to be recommended to anyone with a taste for this musical style. This is a Hybrid SACD with three different layers. A multichannel SACD layer, a Stereo SACD layer, and a normal CD layer. The quality of the normal CD layer is not the best, high freqencies are somewhat muted, which robs the performance of much of its original spark. The multichannel SACD layer sounds a lot better, but you need a multichannel setup to play that correctly. There is problem, however, with the Stereo SACD layer, which is not of SACD quality, but it simply seems to be the copy of the content of the CD layer in SACD coding. (No kidding.) So if your equipment is stereo SACD only, BE WARNED, the quality of the Stereo SACD layer is very far below from what one would expect from a proper SACD recording.