Terence Blanchard - Let's Get Lost (2001)

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Artist: Terence Blanchard
Title: Let's Get Lost
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Sony Classical[SK 89607]
Genre: Jazz, Soul Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 64:09
Total Size: 343 MB(+3%) | 152 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Let's Get Lost - (with Diana Krall)
2. Too Young to Go Steady - (with Jane Monheit)
3. You're a Sweetheart
4. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - (with Dianne Reeves)
5. I'm in the Mood For Love
6. Don't Blame Me - (with Cassandra Wilson)
7. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - (with Jane Monheit)
8. Exactly Like You
9. Can't Get Out of This Mood - (with Dianne Reeves)
10. Lost in a Fog
11. On the Sunny Side of the Street - (with Cassandra Wilson)

Terence Blanchard - Let's Get Lost (2001)

personnel :

Eric Harland - drums
Terence Blanchard - trumpet
Brice Winston - tenor saxophone
Edward Simon - piano
Derek Nievergelt - bass

Also: Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Jane Monheit

Let's Get Lost is a bit of a letdown when placed next to Blanchard's 2000 effort, Wandering Moon, which featured a blistering sextet playing original music. This album is a tribute to songwriter Jimmy McHugh, a pillar of Broadway and Hollywood throughout much of the first half of the 20th century. Blanchard takes extensive liberties with McHugh's songs and enlists four very well-known female vocalists to help him pull it off: Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Dianne Reeves, and Cassandra Wilson. They appear on two songs apiece -- except for Krall, who leads off the album playing piano and singing only on the title track. Four of the 11 selections are instrumentals, featuring Blanchard with his regular band members Edward Simon (piano), Derek Nievergelt (bass), and Eric Harland (drums), with tenor saxophonist Brice Winston joining on three of the tunes. There are a number of gripping moments -- particularly Ed Simon's daredevil arrangement of "I'm in the Mood for Love," Cassandra Wilson's laid-back "Don't Blame Me," and Dianne Reeves's forlorn yet zesty "Can't Get Out of This Mood." But the come-and-go rotation of vocalists makes the album seem more like a variety show than a sustained creative exercise. Also, some of the arrangements don't really fit the songs. "Sunny Side of the Street," for instance, sounds cloudy indeed.~ David R. Adler

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