Our Love Is Here To Stay - Dinah Washington

Advantages: Includes the most famous songs recorded by her
Disadvantages: Only for classic jazz/blues fans.

...and fifties was female artists. It is here, that we pick up with probably the greatest, and most loved of them all, Dinah Washington. This 2 CD album takes us through the very pinnacle of her outstanding career. Dubbed 'The Queen Of The Blues,' she touched on the hearts of many listeners in her day with her sweet, soulful vocals and catchy melodies. Singing for songwriters such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, she came from, like most of her contemporaries, from Gospel music inherited from by parents. Starting out as a jazz singer, she left her piano and choir days behind and reached out to 'the devil's' music' at the age of nineteen. This album takes us through her recording life right up to the year before she died from heart failure, induced by a drugs overdose in 1963 and the tender age of only 39. A singer, who... Read review

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Advantages: One of the greatest soul albums of all time
Disadvantages: ---

...beautiful vocals under mannered pre planned phrasing and prepackaged formula. Here, she just lets loose but still keeping strong vocal form; sounding more like a looser Ivy Anderson( A singer in Duke Ellingon's band in the 40's ) instead of a stiff Doris Day knock off. With her breathy vocal style and picture perfect tone on <i>" Serenade" </i> she gives a wonderfully nuanced style homage to Dinah Washington . ( She also did a tribute album of her material in 64) . Capturing the song's demure but breezy subtleties, around an elegant background of a jazz band augmented with lush R&B horns, <i>" Dream"</i> is the best non-Bachrach-Bachrach ever done or record. Aretha filters in luxurious gospel shouts into the song's schmaltz. The music, cocktail jazz arrangements blended in a pop-soul background, captures Burt's weird camp appeal without... Read review

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Advantages: Great melodic songs mixing with a few higher tempo numbers
Disadvantages: repetitive towards end of album

...Interpol follow up there antics album with our love to admire and it is every bit as cool as its predercessor. The album kicks of with the haunting melodic sounds of "pioneer to the falls" with a looping drum beat. this swiftly followed by a song about the dark thoughts of man to try and get his woman into a threesome with oppropriately named "no i in threesome". The middle section of the album as somemore tempo with single releases of "Heinrich Maneuver" with some riping jerky riffs on guitar and "mammoth" with its looping beat and rythm. Interpols trademark huanting soungs and vocals remain consistant throught the album no more so in than in the penultimate track "the lighthouse". The whole sounds just bring alive the thoughts of loney lighthouse in the fog on a grey evening. There is the slight sense they run out of original... Read review

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