VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jazz Loves Disney
Verve Records
Big Band under the direction of Rob Mounsey and producer Jay Newland
The soundtrack of Disney films have always made a very important contribution to the overall cinematic experience. On this recording Verve have got together a great swinging big band and invited some of the best jazz orientated singers to give their personal interpretations from these immortal scores. The album is a joy from start to finish, should give unadulterated pleasure to most, and will give the very youngest listeners a solid introduction to a quality of performance rarely heard in today's pop world.
Among the highlights are the smokey voiced Melody Gardot's take on "He's A Tramp", the unmistakable sound at slow tempo from Gregory Porter from "Pinocchio" and China Moses clipped but swinging delivery on "Why Don't You Do Right.
Find your Disney favourite amontst the following:
Jamie Cullum - Everybody Wants To Be A Cat - The Aristocrats
Melody Gardot - He's A Tramp - Lady And The Tramp
Stacey Kent - Bibbidi Bobbodo Boo - Cinderella
Gregory Porter - When You Wish Upon A Star - Pinocchio
China Moses - Why Don't You Do Right - Who Framed Roger Rabbitt
Raphael Gualazzi - I Wanna Be Like You - The Jungle Book
The Rob Mounsey Orchestra - a Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Cinderella
Hugh Coltman - You've Got A Friend In Me - Toy Story
Anne Sila - Let It Go - Frozen
Melody Gardot & Paphael Gualazzi - The Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book
Laika - Once Upon A Dream - Sleeping
Nikki Yanofsky - Un Jour Mon Prince Viendra - Blanche
Reviewed by Jim Burlong
Verve Records
Big Band under the direction of Rob Mounsey and producer Jay Newland
The soundtrack of Disney films have always made a very important contribution to the overall cinematic experience. On this recording Verve have got together a great swinging big band and invited some of the best jazz orientated singers to give their personal interpretations from these immortal scores. The album is a joy from start to finish, should give unadulterated pleasure to most, and will give the very youngest listeners a solid introduction to a quality of performance rarely heard in today's pop world.
Among the highlights are the smokey voiced Melody Gardot's take on "He's A Tramp", the unmistakable sound at slow tempo from Gregory Porter from "Pinocchio" and China Moses clipped but swinging delivery on "Why Don't You Do Right.
Find your Disney favourite amontst the following:
Jamie Cullum - Everybody Wants To Be A Cat - The Aristocrats
Melody Gardot - He's A Tramp - Lady And The Tramp
Stacey Kent - Bibbidi Bobbodo Boo - Cinderella
Gregory Porter - When You Wish Upon A Star - Pinocchio
China Moses - Why Don't You Do Right - Who Framed Roger Rabbitt
Raphael Gualazzi - I Wanna Be Like You - The Jungle Book
The Rob Mounsey Orchestra - a Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes - Cinderella
Hugh Coltman - You've Got A Friend In Me - Toy Story
Anne Sila - Let It Go - Frozen
Melody Gardot & Paphael Gualazzi - The Bare Necessities - The Jungle Book
Laika - Once Upon A Dream - Sleeping
Nikki Yanofsky - Un Jour Mon Prince Viendra - Blanche
Reviewed by Jim Burlong
