Seasons For Singing - Ella Jenkins

Advantages: Easy listerning - Relax mode - Good recording
Disadvantages: Sax solo a bit shorter - I like more !

...Introduction My first impression to Ella is from a compilation. What's an amazing to me when her gentle and intimate voice came into my ears? She is really a good singer that you are hard to find in now a day. She sings with her soul and feeling. Thereafter, I bought "The Ballads" from a local store when I saw it, I told myself must buy and try. Overall Date of release: 26 July 1994 Genre: Vocal - Jazz Ballads Label: Verve Records The Singer - Top Classic. The Lyric - Graceful, flawless. The Melody - Tunefulness, easy listening, soothing. The tempo - Slow to medium. This jazz ballads album embraced the 50's great ballads collections, including big-band and swing. It's remastered from the original LP by Verve Records. The background of the music in this record is clean and clear, and Ella's warmth voice is closed... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful Lady with a Beautiful Voice
Disadvantages: None

...I found this CD a couple of years ago in my mum's collection when I was looking for something to listen to as I was bored. I was pleasently suprised when I discovered it had lots of pieces that I already knew. I have been brought up surrounded by classical, jazz, blues etc as my parents are fanatics and to be honest I prefer classic singers to modern music (which is quite unusual for a 20 year old!). She was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25th, 1917 and died on June 15th, 1996. In her lifetime, Ella won 13 Grammy awards and also sold over 40 million album, working with Jazz ledgends such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole. She was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25th, 1917 and died on June 15th, 1996. Ella Fitzgerald has a warm, romantic style of singing and sounds sooo relaxed when she's singing and you... Read review

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Advantages: Clear, charming and soulful voice
Disadvantages: She is young, talented, pretty and intellegant and I'm jealous

...written by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure in 184. and the music composed by Adolphe Charles Adams. The lyrics were later translated into English by John Sullivan Dwight. After listening to Katherine Jenkins sing this, I understand what people mean when they say “a voice of an angel”. There of course had to be one Welsh song on the album. “Calon Lan” is a well-loved Welsh hymn composed by John Hughes with lyrics by Daniel James. Katherine sings it with purity and sincerity. The final track is “You’ll Never Walk Alone” composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein for the musical Carousel. The song forms a tremendous crescendo to the album. Listening to the album, it is hard to believe that this is only Katherine Jenkins’ second album. She delivers each song as if she were a seasoned performer. She instills all... Read review

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