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Anita Wardell - Kinda Blue (2008)

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Anita Wardell - Kinda Blue (2008)

Anita Wardell - Kinda Blue (2008)
Vocal Jazz | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 41 min | 101 MB
Label: Specific Jazz | Rel: 2008

This is a straightahead jazz singer's album of blues-related songs, so what can a contemporary singer do to step out of the crowd of generic rivals, or rise above the great performances of the past? Anita Wardell, the UK-resident Australia-raised singer, has been one of the most engaging live performers on standard material over a decade, and last year's Noted album rightly won acclaim. The yearning, lost-love quality that inevitably clings to some of this material gives the album something of a languorous, dinner-jazzy quality and Wardell reserves her compelling combination of Norma Winston's stillness and purity and her own forceful swing and bop-scat agility for the later stages.There's a fine account of The Meaning of the Blues, some quirkily Monkish instrument-like improve and a little Hammond organ earthiness, with excellent pianist Robin Aspland typically sharp-eared. But hardnosed jazzers might want a bit more grit and edge.

Tracklist:

01. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
02. Loose Bloose
03. Little Girl Blue
04. Learnin' The Blues
05. The Wrong Blues
06. The Meaning Of The Blues
07. Limehouse Blues
08. Teenie's Blues
09. Parker's Mood
10. Born To Be Blue