When Lights are Low

Claire Martin (Artist), Richard Rodney Bennett (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 2005)
• Original Release Date: September 10, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Linn Records
• ASIN: B000BGQS9K
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,337 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gershwin: My One and Only

2. Livingston and Evans: I was a Little too Lonely

3. Sigman: My Mood is You

4. Coward: World Weary

5. Carter/Williams: When Lights are Low

6. Berlin: Fools Fall in Love

7. Arlen/Koehler: I got a Right to sing the Blues

8. O'Riordan/Costello: Baby Play Around

9. Noble: The Very Thought of You

10. Martin: What I Was About

11. Rowles/Mercer: Baby, Don't You Quit Now

12. Warren/Leo: No Love, No Nothing

13. Leonard/George: Not Exactly Paris

14. Mercer/Arlen: Any Place I Hang my Hat is Home

15. Fisher/Segal: I Keep Going Back to Joe’s

16. Fischer/Laine: We’ll Be Together Again

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money., December 17, 2005

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Ava (Texas, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Lights are Low (Audio CD)

Every other song is destroyed by some over-the-hill guy whose voice is way, way past its prime, if it ever had one. Just dreadful. I am really disappointed to have spent so much money on a CD and less than half the songs are worth listening to. The songs are also only accompanied by a sole piano, which only accentuates all the flat, tuneless notes by Bennett. He should have kept his mouth shut and just let her sing. Claire Martin's other CDs are all fabulous, but this is definitely not one to include in your collection.

80 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 19, 2006

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Mark "Mark" (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Lights are Low (Audio CD)

I love Claire. I would have preferred a

little more of Claire and less of the accompanist singing.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An Ill-Conceived Collaboration, March 16, 2006

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Daniel "Jazz Fan" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Lights are Low (Audio CD)

This is not the best CD that Claire has recorded. It is bland and offputtingly low-key, no thanks to the ill-conceived concept of a collaboration with the gravelly-voiced Bennett. Claire would have been better off doing with duets with other more exciting British jazz performers, many of whom abound and many of whom would have been more exciting than Bennett.