KAREN LANE - Taste
Tracks:
1. Photograph
2. I Wanna Be Loved
3. Nothing More Than You
4. Wild is the Wind
5. My Foolish Heart
6. You and I
7. Favela
8. Slow Hot Wind
9. Just The Same
10. I Fall in Love Too Easily
11. Taste
12. Corcovado
Featuring:
Dave Colton Guitar Andy Hamill Bass Nic France Drums and Julian Ferraretto Violin
Special GUESTS:
Nathan Haines Alto Flute (7) Tenor Sax (10)
Theo Travis Alto Flute (3,9,12)
Tom Cawley Piano
Recorded @ Clowns Pcket Studio by Derek Nash Dec 203
String Arrangements: Julian Ferraretto
copyright: Krushgroove 2004
£10.00
1. Photograph
2. I Wanna Be Loved
3. Nothing More Than You
4. Wild is the Wind
5. My Foolish Heart
6. You and I
7. Favela
8. Slow Hot Wind
9. Just The Same
10. I Fall in Love Too Easily
11. Taste
12. Corcovado
Featuring:
Dave Colton Guitar Andy Hamill Bass Nic France Drums and Julian Ferraretto Violin
Special GUESTS:
Nathan Haines Alto Flute (7) Tenor Sax (10)
Theo Travis Alto Flute (3,9,12)
Tom Cawley Piano
Recorded @ Clowns Pcket Studio by Derek Nash Dec 203
String Arrangements: Julian Ferraretto
copyright: Krushgroove 2004
£10.00
Karen Lane's second self produced album explores reworking of standards in a Bossa Nova style - plus some of her original songs which stand up well against these classics. Sublime lounge style vibes executed to the highest musical standard with some of London's finest musicians.
Reviews:
"While so many UK-based vocalists merely go through the motions with a real book and piano trio, Karen Lane has surrounded herself with a lighter more flexible group for this bossa inspired album. But what really elevates the sound is the extraordinarily subtle arrangements of strings and alto flutes. Lane's own compositions are very strong too. Refreshingly good."
The INDEPENDENT
“Taste could actually be considered the perfect celebration of a decade in jazz. The raison d’être of Taste seems to be to bask in the engulfing beauty of the carefully selected material - and the singer certainly achieves this brilliantly. So laid back that to listen to it you risk slipping a disc - delightful. Perfect for those balmy summer evenings - a genuinely heartfelt homage to the profound allure of bossa nova.”
Peter Quinn JAZZWISE
"Karen Lane is a mature and experienced singer. A lithe swing and elegant phrasing marks her out as does her repertoire, which mixes standards with well known jazz songs and some attractive originals by Karen who also writes her own arrangements. Wholly admirable in concept and execution, the second CD demonstrates that this is a singer of quality and that most intangible of elements, one so often absent in popular music today, Taste.
Bruce Crowther, Jazz Journal
Reviews:
"While so many UK-based vocalists merely go through the motions with a real book and piano trio, Karen Lane has surrounded herself with a lighter more flexible group for this bossa inspired album. But what really elevates the sound is the extraordinarily subtle arrangements of strings and alto flutes. Lane's own compositions are very strong too. Refreshingly good."
The INDEPENDENT
“Taste could actually be considered the perfect celebration of a decade in jazz. The raison d’être of Taste seems to be to bask in the engulfing beauty of the carefully selected material - and the singer certainly achieves this brilliantly. So laid back that to listen to it you risk slipping a disc - delightful. Perfect for those balmy summer evenings - a genuinely heartfelt homage to the profound allure of bossa nova.”
Peter Quinn JAZZWISE
"Karen Lane is a mature and experienced singer. A lithe swing and elegant phrasing marks her out as does her repertoire, which mixes standards with well known jazz songs and some attractive originals by Karen who also writes her own arrangements. Wholly admirable in concept and execution, the second CD demonstrates that this is a singer of quality and that most intangible of elements, one so often absent in popular music today, Taste.
Bruce Crowther, Jazz Journal
