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| | River: The Joni Letters | | | Music Artist : | | Herbie Hancock | | Music Style : | | General | | Release Date : | | 2007-11-20 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $62.49 | | Artistopia's Price: $62.49 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Court and Spark - Herbie Hancock, Norah Jones
2. Edith and the Kingpin - Herbie Hancock, Tina Turner
3. Both Sides Now [Instrumental] - Herbie Hancock
4. River - Herbie Hancock, Corinne Bailey Rae
5. Sweet Bird [Instrumental] - Herbie Hancock
6. Tea Leaf Prophecy - Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell
7. Solitude [Instrumental] - Herbie Hancock
8. Amelia - Herbie Hancock, Luciana Souza
9. Nefertiti [Instrumental] - Herbie Hancock
10. Jungle Line - Leonard Cohen, Herbie Hancock
11. Case of You [*] - Herbie Hancock
12. All I Want [*] - Herbie Hancock, Sonya Kitchell
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Great album!
Submitted on: 2009-04-07 |
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| I liked it very much... the covers are great and the total experience is very calm |
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 Cool, flowing river
Submitted on: 2009-03-15 |
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Joni Mitchell is one of the most talented songwriters of her age. The idea of taking her essentially modern Folk songs and recreating them in a Jazz genre is an interesting one. Add a couple of Jazz standards and no less than seven solo vocalists and the whole thing sounds unmissable. But does it work? For me it did.
This is smooth and cool Jazz, in the best senses of those words, and not 'almost saccharine', as the Editorial Review has it. Kenny G it ain't.
The standout track is Corinne Bailey Rae's rendition of the title song. Soulful and melodic, it repays repeated listening. Amelia, with vocals from Luciana Souza, is the least satisfactory track, as the singer occasionally slips off key, in a too-relaxed performance. Joni Mitchell's own vocals, on Tea Leaf Prophecy, are surprisingly good. Her voice has mellowed and matured, retaining its interesting phrasing but losing the occasional shrillness and sharpness of earlier years.
This is a carefully-wrought, imaginative musical fusion to which every Jazz fan - and Joni fan - should give a fair hearing.
[PeterReeve]
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Not my type of music and yet I still love it
Submitted on: 2009-01-03 |
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I saw Herbie Hancock perform two songs on Live From Abby Road and I was simply amazed at how great they were. I have never considered myself a jazz fan, I have never owned or listed to a Herbie Hancock cd and Joni Mitchell does not live in my cd collection of over a 1000 cds. But when I heard the Herbie and Connie Rae Bailey do the River I knew that i had to own the most beautiful song of all time. I bought the album and every song is easy to listen to and comes across as fresh and new even though Herbie is simply adding a twist to Joni Mitchell's songs.
I think anyone that enjoys the finer things in life will enjoy this cd. |
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River-Herbie Hancock
Submitted on: 2008-12-26 |
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| It won the Grammy, a well deserved honor. Listen to the excerpts because this is not your typical Herbie Hancock, but some great interpretive performances. |
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interesting... charming... worth the purchase
Submitted on: 2008-12-16 |
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If you like Joni Mitchell you MIGHT like this album. If you like Herbie Hancock and if you like jazz you WILL like this album. Well done, not overplayed... sensitive, pensive, deep. Each song is a seperate world unto itself... a pearl in a string necklace of songs that comprise the whole album. The rotating cameos of vocalists keep each song fresh and surprising. A good record to have. Well recorded.
Marc Waszkiewicz
Bremerton, Washington |
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