This Girl's Got to Play

Joyce Cooling | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Narada
• ASIN: B0001I2BWQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,487 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ...And Play Good She Does, August 20, 2004

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CharlieGreene "CharlieG" (Satelite Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Girl's Got to Play (Audio CD)

I discovered Joyce C. by acciden't and it's been a big surprise. On the surface you could say it's like a mix of Larry Carlton meets Candy Dulfer, but after you get in it's a whole different thing. All tracks are good and intelligent compositions. Joyce's playing is superb. But maybe the reason why I liked the album is the reason why some didn't like it as much, and it's that the album sounds "amateurish", that "she is not there yet"... so great!, because that makes the music fresh, new and upbeat. Highly recommended.

21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars reviewer from dallas, July 25, 2004

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B. Y Young - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Girl's Got to Play (Audio CD)

i first heard joyce cooling on a contemporary jazz station on xm radio and really liked her so i got this cd--this girl's got to play. i really like the instrumental songs but the vocals are pretty weak--and there are four of them. she plays the guitar so well i don't know why she would want to cover up or detract from her great guitar playing. the other issue i had with this cd was there was nowhere on the outside that told you there were all these vocals. all i every heard on the radio was instrumentals and that is what i expected to get. if you like female vocalists you might like this one better than i did but i really prefer instrumental pieces.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great CD for "chillin' out" to, May 6, 2004

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Azmat Bhatty "ozbot87" (Los Alamos, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Girl's Got to Play (Audio CD)

"This Girl's Got to Play" is one of those CDs I have been looking for to put in my collection. It's not the greatest CD I have ever heard, nor does it do anything groundbreaking in terms of smooth jazz, but it does an excellent job of making me want to listen to the CD over and over again. Songs such as "Expression", "Camelback", "Green Impala", and "Toast and Jam" is the typical Cooling guitar flair, which is a good thing. Cooling's vocal tracks ("No More Blues", "This Girls Got to Play", and "Talk") do not provide the dynamic effect on the smooth jazz genre as say, Anita Baker, Diana Krall, or Sade, but she does manage to keep the tunes going and make it a pleasant listening experience.

Give this CD a try, chances are there is something you'll like on this CD.