Dakota Staton - Darling Please Save Your Love for Me (1992)

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Artist: Dakota Staton
Title: Darling Please Save Your Love for Me
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Muse Records[MCD 5462]
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 43:56
Total Size: 263 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. I Thought About You (Mercer-Van Heusen) - 3:36
02. You've Changed (Fisher-Carey) - 3:43
03. I Can't Quit You Baby (Dixon) - 4:45
04. You Better Go Now (Reichner-Graham) - 4:17
05. Gone with the Wind (Wrubel-Magidson) - 1:36
06. Save Your Love for Me (Johnson) - 5:07
07. East of the Sun (Bowman) - 2:15
08. Walking the Backstreets (Jones) - 5:19
09. I'm Just a Lucky So and So (Ellington-David) - 3:15
10. Skylark (Mercer-Carmichael) - 4:33
11. Your Husband's Cheating on Us (LaSalle) - 5:30

personnel :

Dakota Staton - vocals
Bill Easley - saxophone, flute
Bross Townsend - piano
Leon Dorsey - bass
Michael Carvin - drums

The repertoire is fine on this CD, as is the backup group (Bill Easley on reeds, pianist Bross Townsend, bassist Leon Dorsey and drummer Michael Carvin). Unfortunately, Dakota Staton's singing is quite erratic -- her vibrato is overly wide, and she shows too much emotion in spots and overall sounds a bit past her prime. Considering that her next recording, Isn't This a Lovely Day, was on a higher level, this particular project obviously found the singer on an off day. The versions of standards (including "I Thought About You," "Save Your Love for Me," "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" and the amusingly titled "Your Husband's Cheating On Us") are OK, but fall short of their potential and what Dakota Staton is capable of.~Scott Yanow

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