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| | A Turtle's Dream | | | Music Artist : | | Abbey Lincoln | | Music Style : | | Traditional Vocal Pop | | Record Label : | | Polygram Records | | Release Date : | | 1995-06-06 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Throw It Away
2. Turtle's Dream
3. Down Here Below
4. Nature Boy
5. Avec le Temps
6. Should've Been
7. My Love Is You
8. Storywise
9. Hey, Lordy Mama
10. Not to Worry
11. Being Me
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 you gotta pay the.....respects
Submitted on: 2008-08-05 |
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| man what a wonderful and unusual vocal interpreter is MS. LINCOLN . great songwriter as well . not much to add but my vote . select any recording going back at least twenty years (when i first heard her on a college radio station) and you're going to be thrilled . magnificent album . here is jazz and here is a true jazz artist . i was familiar with all of the musicians save the french guy on saxaphone (he's excellent) . it came as no suprise that all the players brought their A game (it is an ABBY album) . a deeply philosophical and spiritual date . CAUTION . you may end up wishing all the women in your life were as deep and glorious as the one on this project . |
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A jazz classic
Submitted on: 2008-07-22 |
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| This CD should be on the shelf of every serious jazz fan! Down here below still gives me chills everytime I hear it |
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Mesmerizing and healing
Submitted on: 2005-02-01 |
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| I saw Abbey when I had just graduated college at the old Iridium Club and I bought this cd because she did seem quite unusual to me. But in fact, I then put it away for many years, finding it a little melancholy. I dug it up two years ago and realized that I was just too young at the time to 'get' it. It is a hauntingly beautiful and wise album. She does not have a 'pretty' voice, but it is a mesmerizing voice that holds you and brings forth fully the meaning of each and every word that she says. Her lyrics are so significant and personal, you can't turn away from someone who is sharing such inner soul with you. The title song, Down Here Below, Not to Worry, and Being Me are my favorites- I just get enveloped in them when they are playing. You simply don't hear a collection of songs this beautiful and individual anymore. And as a side note, I have since seen Ms. Lincoln in several live performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center and she is just the hippest, most graceful, classy individual there is. A true artist. |
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Glorious.
Submitted on: 2003-06-04 |
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| I got this CD when I was about a year into my first real job, and it was exceedingly stressful and miserable -- the job, that is -- and this CD carried me through it. It is intensely and contagiously reflective, listening to this CD forced me out of my day-to-day drudgery and made me think about bigger, more significant things. After things cooled down at work I put it away for about 6 years. I just recently listened to it again and it still packs a wallop! Miss Abbey was on some other stuff when she crafted this CD. She is the voice of experience and wisdom. There is nothing superficial about "A Turtle's Dream". She wrote most of the songs, and though they would be impressive sung by anyone, she invests each lyric with staggering pathos and clarity. Standouts are "Being Me", "Throw It Away" and the devastating title song. I love "Avec Le Temps" and I can't speak French so I have no idea what she's singing but it sounds so wonderful. Apparently, this song is a much-recorded French-language standard and I've been advised by one of my snotty French friends that Abbey's French diction is very coarse, but even he loves her version of the song. Also, she does a particularly noteworthy version of "Nature Boy". A pleasant pop standard in the hands of the great Nat "King" Cole, this song has since invited a number of loopy, idiosyncratic interpretations, but again Abbey sticks to the lyric and comes up with a real winner. In creating the mood, Lincoln is aided enormously by stellar musicians, most notably Rodney Kendrick, Charlie Haden, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove, and Julien Lourau. My one caveat would be that the CD is overwhelmingly melancholy -- not maudlin, just pensive. So it's not the best CD for a day at the beach. |
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Unbelievable!
Submitted on: 2003-03-12 |
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| Looking for the meaning of life? Trying to unwind after a long day? Want to understand the mysteries of love? Want to feel a little more spiritual? Then this is the album to listen to. Abbey Lincoln's A Turtle's Dream is one of the most remarkable albums ever. It is so peaceful and profound. If it doesn't move you, you have no soul! |
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