Van Morrison - Versatile
Формат записи/Источник записи: [TR24][OF]
Наличие водяных знаков: Нет
Год издания/переиздания диска: 2017
Жанр: Vocal Jazz
Издатель (лейбл): Caroline Records
Продолжительность: 68:26
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Только обложка альбома
Треклист:
01. Broken Record (3:15)
02. A Foggy Day (3:33)
03. Lets Get Lost (3:38)
04. Bye Bye Blackbird (3:45)
05. Skye Boat Song (4:01)
06. Take It Easy Baby (4:07)
07. Makin Whoopee (4:52)
08. I Get A Kick Out Of You (4:10)
09. I Forgot That Love Existed (3:37)
10. Unchained Melody (4:33)
11. Start All Over Again (4:40)
12. Only A Dream (5:29)
13. Affirmation (6:03)
14. The Party's Over (3:10)
15. I Left My Heart In San Francisco (6:01)
16. They Can't Take That Away From Me (3:31)
AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Versatile is Van Morrison's 38th album, and follows the release of the excellent R&B and blues covers collection Roll with the Punches by less than three months. Like its predecessor, it's primarily a covers set, but its focus is on jazz and pop standards from the Great American Songbook with six originals added for good measure. Historically, these experiments haven't worked for rock artists: Rod Stewart delivered five overblown, badly sung collections from the canon, and Bob Dylan delivered five discs of highly idiosyncratic interpretations of the stuff. Even Boz Scaggs tried them with very mixed results. Morrison fares better than his peers due to experience -- standards have peppered his set lists for decades. Versatile is not a pillar in his catalog, but it's not a cynical cash-in, either.
Morrison surrounds himself with a septet that includes saxophones, trombone, keys, guitar, bass, and drums. Most of these tracks were recorded in hotel lounges in Ireland's County Down, adding to the slippery jazz feel. The canonical material proves a real interpretive challenge. Curiously, he opens the record with a throwaway new original entitled "Broken Record," that shows off his band's fingerpopping swing quotient but little else. He quickly recovers with a fine reading of the Gershwin's "A Foggy Day," showcasing his fluid phrasing and empathic lyric interpretation. His Chet Baker worship is well known, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he takes on "Let's Get Lost." His take is jaunty, offering tinges of Jimmy Rushing-inspired R&B while remaining a jazz tune. While his muted scat groove on Cole Porter's "Bye Bye Blackbird" is overly strident, he gives a polished, nuanced performance to the composer's "I Get a Kick Out of You." "Makin' Whoopee" contains a nice bluesy chart (Dave Keary's electric guitar playing recalls Grant Green's), but Morrison's vocal is uncomfortably stilted. Among his own tunes are two other new ones -- the punchy, Jimmy Witherspoon-esque "Take It Easy Baby" and the contemplative, nearly spiritual, modal, almost totally instrumental "Affirmation" with Sir James Galway guesting on flute -- as well as beautifully rendered rearrangements of catalog material -- "I Forgot That Love Existed," "Start All Over Again," and "Only a Dream." There is also a deeply satisfying arrangement of the traditional "Skye Boat Song" that melds Celtic soul with Celtic jazz as Morrison's smoky alto sax tone leads the rest of the horn section's lithe groove. While he could have left off the too-often covered "Unchained Melody" and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because they add nothing to the originals, readings of "The Party's Over" and the Gershwin closer "They Can't Take That Away from Me" are impeccable examples of Morrison's mercurial phrasing and limpid modern arrangements that make swing their top priority. Versatile certainly has its flaws and will likely appeal mostly to longtime fans, but Morrison invests himself in each tune, singing as if he wrote them. This is head and shoulders above similar efforts by his peers.
Об альбоме (сборнике)
Following the massive success of his 37th studio album 'Roll With the Punches' (which charted at No 4 in the UK this September), Van Morrison prepares the release of his 38th, 'Versatile!'
'Versatile' is positive proof that Van Morrison is built differently to other artists. One of very few British recording artists to warrant the description 'living legend', Van is currently working at a rate to put musicians a third of his age to shame; an ethic that harks back to his early days as a recording artist who'd easily release multiple brilliant long players within the space of a year.
While 'Roll With The Punches' saw Van revisit many of the definitive rhythm and blues records that have stayed with him all his life, Van's latest album sees him delve further back into recorded music's archives to interpret some of the 20th century's greatest vocal jazz standards.
Across 'Versatile's sixteen tracks, Van Morrison interprets some of the very building blocks of modern music in his own utterly unique style. As well as songs originally made famous by the likes of Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, the Righteous Brothers, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole, Versatile features six stunning new Van compositions, including Broken Record – a timeless piece of late-night swing.
Van says of 'Versatile:' "Recording songs like these - especially the standards - gave me the chance to stretch out vocally and get back to the music that originally inspired me to sing - jazz!"
A joy from start to finish, Versatile is a completely different record to Roll With the Punches yet it's incontrovertibly Van and proof, if ever it were needed, that at 72 years of age, he's not going to slow down any time soon.
Контейнер: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Разрядность: 24/96
Формат: PCM
Количество каналов: 2.0
Лог проверки качества
foobar2000 1.3.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-12-02 23:24:33
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Analyzed: Van Morrison / Versatile
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.02 dB -11.52 dB 3:15 01-Broken Record
DR10 -0.01 dB -12.89 dB 3:33 02-A Foggy Day
DR10 -0.01 dB -11.09 dB 3:38 03-Lets Get Lost
DR10 -0.01 dB -11.65 dB 3:45 04-Bye Bye Blackbird
DR8 -0.01 dB -10.92 dB 4:01 05-Skye Boat Song
DR10 -0.01 dB -11.48 dB 4:07 06-Take It Easy Baby
DR10 -0.01 dB -11.89 dB 4:52 07-Makin Whoopee
DR9 -0.01 dB -11.18 dB 4:10 08-I Get A Kick Out Of You
DR9 -0.01 dB -10.82 dB 3:37 09-I Forgot That Love Existed
DR10 -0.01 dB -12.38 dB 4:33 10-Unchained Melody
DR9 -0.01 dB -11.06 dB 4:40 11-Start All Over Again
DR10 -0.01 dB -12.10 dB 5:29 12-Only A Dream
DR10 -0.01 dB -12.30 dB 6:03 13-Affirmation
DR9 -0.01 dB -11.62 dB 3:10 14-The Party's Over
DR11 -0.01 dB -13.54 dB 6:01 15-I Left My Heart In San Francisco
DR10 -0.01 dB -11.70 dB 3:31 16-They Can't Take That Away From Me
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Number of tracks: 16
Official DR value: DR10
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2570 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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