Linger

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Jen Chapin has stretched out on Linger, her third disc, adding additional musicians and a string section to accompany her evocative tunes, rather than relying solely on husband Stephan Crump’s double bass to underscore her shape-shifting vocalizations as she did on 2002’s Open Wide. Her earlier effort was a stark, chilly affair, the only warmth coming from her idiosyncratic voice, which ranges from a Minnie Riperton meow, to a smoky blues moan, to an R&B rasp. Overtime Chapin’s voice has become a more sophisticated instrument that moves effortlessly from the steamy pages of her diary to the after-hours clubs in Munich, to the tragedy of child soldiers in West Africa, without sounding a false note. A Berklee trained lyricist, and a tireless advocate against poverty and world hunger, Chapin combines the personal with political, writing with a conscience and grace that one rarely encounters. --Jaan Uhelszki

Performing Songwriter, March/April 2004
Soulful, sassy and sweet all at the same time, singer-songwriter Jen Chapin makes a grand entrance with her debut disc.

Linger

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Linger

Average customer rating: It's Dreamy My Favorite Composer of all time An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!! It's simply lovely

American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason Thomas Hampson , Jay Ungar , Molly Mason , Garrison Keillor , David Alpher , Mark Rust , Michael Parloff , Peter Ecklund , John Kirk , Arnold Kinsella , and Stephen Foster Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hampson, Thomas | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music $9.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Hampson, Thomas | ( H ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Song of Home Song of America Harvest Home Civil War Classics Stephen Foster Song Book ASIN: B000002SK7 Release Date: 1992-10-20

Tracks:

1. Opening Solo Violin
2. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
3. Hard Times Come Again No More
4. The Voice Of Bygone Days
5. Foster Favorites Medley (Ring, Ring The Banjo (1851) Oh! Susanna (1848) Camptown Races (1850)
6. Open Thy Lattice, Love (1844)
7. Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
8. That's What's The Matter
9. Old Home Medley (Old Folks at Home (1851) My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1853)
10. Molly! Do You Love Me? (1850)
11. Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair (1851)
12. Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)
13. Dancing On The River (Nelly Bly (1850) The Glendy Burk (1860) Angelina Baker (1850)
14. My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman (1863)
15. Gentle Annie (1856)
16. Linger In Blissful Repose (1858)
17. Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway (1850)

Customer Reviews:

It's Dreamy.......2007-01-10

This is a very wonderful recording of Stephen Foster by a master singer.
Foster's songs are of a more innocent and naive time in the American psyche, a time that it would not hurt us to remember, given the wretched brutality of American culture today (something you'll appreciate after listening to this recording).

The songs are beautifully sung by Mr. Hamspon, and the musical accompaniment with piano, mandolin, tuba, banjo, etc. seems a perfect setting for this period music. I enjoyed the musical interludes of Foster songs (not sung by Mr. Hampson), such as "Oh, Suzanna", "My Old Kentucky Home", and "Camptown Races." They are foot-stompin' and finger-snappin' good in a non-syncopated way.

Mr. Hampson's voice is so beautiful, and he has done such a wonderful job with these song's you'll just have to hear it, and when you do, tell me that you're not dreaming.

I remember reading a quote by John Phillip Sousa that decried the use of syncopation in American popular music. I never understood it until listening to this recording. The richness and intensity of American popular music (as experienced in the work of Stephen Foster) has been lost.
Everything has to be so cool today, thanks to syncopation, and "cool" really means no emotion.

If emotion is what you want, emotion is what you'll get with Stephen Foster's songs. It was a time when the death of loved ones (especially those who died in their youth) was experienced more often (see "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Gentle Annie"). And we were not protected from the vicissitudes of fate by myriad government programs, modern medicine and universal prosperity (see "Hard Times").
Husbands and wives had their differences then, as today, (see the amusing song "My Wife is a Most Knowin' Woman") The passion of the Civil War (Foster was a Unionist),is reflected in a wonderful, fun song, "That's What's the Matter."

If you love good music, and you have heart which can be stirred, and you love your country, this is for you.

I love this recording. It has opened up the door to my "beautiful dreams," dreams of bygone days, lost love, and whatever else we pine for.

I wanted to buy several copies for my friends, but somehow I felt that the impact of this recording was so personal, that it could not be shared with others. Not that they couldn't enjoy it, but that I could not begin to share the intense emotion and reverie stirred in my heart by these beautiful songs.

My Favorite Composer of all time.......2006-08-20

Growing up playing his stuff on piano, I love the instrumentality of this CD..the violins give off that wail that he speaks of..I am not sure what it is about Stephen Foster but these verses..grab me like no other..there is so much sensitivity to it..

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Born like a vapor on the summer air
I see her tripping where the bright streams play
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

but the violins in this CD make this CD the best out there..
FYI should you be into astrology Stephen Foster is definition of Cancer...Sun and Moon conjunct in Cancer with mars in Scorpio..i love his lyrics..almost to the point of obsession..

An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears.......2006-07-17

Stephen Foster was the greatest American composer of sentimental parlor ballads--he so perfectly imitated folk songs that his music wound up turning into them. In an age of home music-making and later of families sitting around the radio, Foster's songs were a staple, often performed by crossover artists from opera like Lawrence Tibbett. Those were plump, ripe styles of singing, highly flavored by church hymns.

In this 1992 collection of 17 Foster favorites, plus a few rareties, Hampson drops the platform manner and goes straight for heartfelt sincerity. His tone is plain yet sweet, his expression intimate. He is accompanied by instruments redolent of the Victorian drawing room (guitar, fiddle, upright piano), and the mood they create brings tears and smiles of remembrance. This music is embedded in America's genes, and it's wonderful to realize that every note is still alive and throbbing with feeling.

OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!!.......2005-11-25

Simply one word, WOW!!!
Thomas Hampson's voice is simply fantasic. His voice is very different from regular operatic baritone voice, very sweet, and rich. I really cant believe an operatic baritone can sing folk song like THIS good, in my opinion he sounds even better than his opera works in this album. His voice and the background music matches perfectly, the outcome would move u to tears, and u can feel the origin of MUSIC. This album really shows what the word MUSIC means, and the songs simply just ALL beautiful. I like his "beautiful dreamer", "my life is well knowing woman", and "jeanie with the light brown hair" the most. When I listen the songs I would just imagine that I am in the world of past USA, and I can feel the life of the ppl in the past USA~ just like watching an old classic movie, it would touch ur heart and fall in love with this album.

It's simply lovely.......2004-12-14

I didn't know Stephen Foster (I thought): wrong: Oh Susanna, etc, I knew, but had no idea who the composer was.

This CD is a revelation. The melodies are so beautiful, as are the poems, and Thomas Hampson just brings them to life as wonderfully as ever. I especially love "Beautiful Dreamer" - it gives me butterflies - and "My wife is a most knowing woman" - the way he makes the voices and the indignation is just brilliant. If one needed reminding what a brilliant singer Mr Hampson is - this disk does it.

Average customer rating: Do ya think i'm sexy Listen to this, Listen to this! For real As enjoyable as Laibach, in an American way!!!!! Crap

Linger Ficken' Good... Revolting Cocks Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Beers, Steers + Queers Cocked and Loaded Big Sexy Land The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Twitch ASIN: B000002MMN Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. Gila Copter
2. Creep
3. Mr. Lucky
4. Crackin' Up
5. Sergio
6. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
7. The Rockabye
8. Butcher Flower's Woman
9. Dirt
10. Linger Ficken' Good

Customer Reviews:

Do ya think i'm sexy.......2006-08-11

Damn, man this gotta to be one of the best Al Jourgensen's creation... dont miss that one!!!

Listen to this, Listen to this!.......2006-05-22

Offensive to some, but the fun thing about this cd as well as the other RevCo stuff is that it's presented as a tossed off jokey affair. While the discs do contain humor, in title and lyrics, sonically and atmospherically, there is much attention to detail, musically. The musicianship on this disc is superb, especially the grating, distorted guitar work. As an aside, the front cover art features the track listing and running times of the songs, much like a promotional release would. Nice touch. Until this gets the proper rerelease treatment (w/ bonus tracks) seek out the Crackin' Up cd single as well, as it features Gila Copter 2 as an additional track, with a completely different stream-of-consciousness lyric by Dr. Timothy Leary. Out there...way, way out there. Recommended!!

For real.......2005-11-27

On separate occasions, I killed a set of speakers with this CD, and managed to clear out a party of "normals" in under 5 minutes.

There really are only two kinds of people: those who live to do that sort of thing (so buy this one), others would never ever (your search continues).

As enjoyable as Laibach, in an American way!!!!!.......2005-04-13

Hardcore industrial as good as it gets. Guest star acid guru Timothy Leary hiself on one track, a band theme song, always good, "Linger Fickin' Good." A cover, of course way better than the original..."Do Ya Think I'm Sexy." Much like Revco more than Ministry, it's a bit looser and a bit more fun. If anyone has any info. on the Grandpa Jourgenson side project "Buck Satan & the 666 Shooters give me a holler!

Crap.......2005-03-12

This album sounds like video game music composed by a crack addict...but, I guess if you like that kind of stuff, this is for you.

Average customer rating: Love This! Love This! 4th in the Pavarotti and Friends charity concerts Great album, worthy cause. Master Class, but still too stuffy

Together for the Children of Bosnia Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Pavarotti & Friends - For The Children Of Liberia Pavarotti & Friends: For Cambodia and Tibet Pavarotti & Friends For Guatemala And Kosovo Pavarotti & Friends Pavarotti & Friends 2 ASIN: B000004297 Release Date: 1996-04-02

Tracks:

1. Per colpa di chi?
2. Serenata rap-Mattinata
3. Can We Go Higher?
4. Ordinary World
5. Clap Clap (The Clapping Song)
6. Miss Sarajevo
7. Cosi celeste
8. Linger
9. Come Back To Sorrento
10. Penso positivo
11. Vesti la giubba - Pagliacci
12. Heaven Can Wait
13. Ave Maria
14. One
15. The Long Black Veil (Medley)
16. Funiculi , funicula
17. Nessun dorma - Turandot

Customer Reviews:

Love This!.......2001-10-01

I finally got the Cd after wearing out two tapes. There are so many different artist on this, it's amazing. It is almost worth it just to hear Michael Bolton do opera! I don't like the man but he was good. Get this, it is worth a listen.

Love This!.......2001-10-01

I finally got the Cd after wearing out two tapes. There are so many different artist on this, it's amazing. It is almost worth it just to hear Michael Bolton do opera! I don't like the man but he was good. Get this, it is worth a listen.

4th in the Pavarotti and Friends charity concerts.......2001-01-09

Live from the Parco Novi Sad, Modena, on 12 September 1995, in the presence of Diana, Princess of Wales, Pavarotti brings us his fourth spectacular charity concert, this time in aid of a music therapy centre being built in Mostar by War Child. As is usual with these concerts, Pavarotti brings together artists from all musical genres, and even does duets with some of them including Meat Loaf, Michael Bolton and Dolores O'Riordan. Track #2 is an astonishing blend of opera and rap...who woulda thunk it! The finale is Pavarotti's calling-card "Nessun Dorma" in which he is joined by the many other guests. Rap, folk, rock, opera, gospel and sacred music build a musical bridge in aid of a worthy cause.

Great album, worthy cause........2001-01-04

A wonderful concert for a wonderful cause. The previous reviewer only gave it 4 stars because he said there were too many different styles of music. Well, that's the whole point. It is the music community, regardless of genre, getting together to raise funds to build a Music Centre in Bosnia-Hercegovina, which will provide music therapy, tuition and a space where music will be used to enable young people to learn, to grow and to be healed. Music is for everyone, and all these different artists getting together for the common good, regardless of genre, is wonderful. And on this album are a number of suprises. Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries singing with Pavorotti on "Ave Maria", Meat Loaf and Pavarotti duetting on "Come back to Sorrento", to name just two. A must have for music fans in general.

Master Class, but still too stuffy.......2000-03-01

A brilliant idea of Maestro Pavarotti, these concerts, and especially this one. I enjoyed the Ave Maria, where Dolores (one of my favourite pop-stars) clearly shows that she had some profit from canto classes she took in youth. But the "Linger" version was not alike, listening more to Simon Le Bon than the original voice...

Strange, but interesting and cool combination between rap and opera ("Serenata Rap/Mattinata"). Well, such things could never be seen before, eh?

A good bunch of masters packed in to make a great record for a good deal. But.. aren't there too many styles? Yhat's the missing star...

Average customer rating: Time Capsule Unexpected An album to treasure A classic recording of American songs The sessions of sweet silent thought stirred

Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2 Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Stephen Foster Songs: Parlor & Minstrel Songs, Dance Tunes & Instrumentals Stephen Foster Song Book American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster DOO-DAH: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture ASIN: B000005IYE Release Date: 1992-05-28

Tracks:

1. Songs By Stephen Foster: Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
2. Songs By Stephen Foster: There's A Good Time Coming
3. Songs By Stephen Foster: Was My Brother In The Battle?
4. Songs By Stephen Foster: Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
5. Songs By Stephen Foster: If You've Only Got A Moustache
6. Songs By Stephen Foster: Gentle Annie
7. Songs By Stephen Foster: Wilt Thou Be Gone, Love?
8. Songs By Stephen Foster: That's What's The Matter
9. Songs By Stephen Foster: Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway
10. Songs By Stephen Foster: I'm Nothing But A Plain Old Soldier
11. Songs By Stephen Foster: Beautiful Dreamer
12. Songs By Stephen Foster: Mr. & Mrs. Brown
13. Songs By Stephen Foster: Slumber My Darling
14. Songs By Stephen Foster: Some Folks
15. Songs By Stephen Foster: We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More
16. Songs By Stephen Foster: Linger In Blissful Repose
17. Songs By Stephen Foster: There Are Plenty Of Fish In The Sea
18. Songs By Stephen Foster: Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
19. Songs By Stephen Foster: The Soiree Polka
20. Songs By Stephen Foster: Better Times Are Coming
21. Songs By Stephen Foster: Katy Bell
22. Songs By Stephen Foster: The Hour For Thee And Me
23. Songs By Stephen Foster: Summer Longings

Customer Reviews:

Time Capsule.......2006-11-30

The voices and instruments, like the songs, are straight from the mid-19th century. If you want to be transported back in time 150 years to a wonderful parlor performance of Foster's songs, this is the album to do it. The voices are marvelous and trained, and one must imagine that the strict phrasing and style are what one would have expected at the time. The cheap upright piano is perfect.

But the one perfect moment for me is the ONLY good extant rendition of "Was My Brother in the Battle?". Accompanied on a harmonium or pump reed organ, if this song doesn't tempt a tear, you simply aren't a romantic.

Very highly recommended.

Unexpected.......2005-11-26

Quality of this recording is fantastic! Performances are superb! However, they don't fit being an example of Foster's music and times. I was expecting banjos and a Mississippi Sound - therfore, very, very disappointed in this CD and consider and a waste of money. Be sure to LISTEN to a few examples to match what you are looking for and what the CD offers. I, unfortunately did not listen before I bought. I rate this low only because my expectations were shattered. This IS a fine CD if opera styles are ok for an example of this southern, 1800's composer's work.

An album to treasure.......2004-09-23

The landmark Library of Congress album, now on enhanced CD. Years
ago, I went on a six-months field assignment to a remote area of
Africa, where I could take only what music I could carry in a vest
pocket. I chose a tape player and two albums: a recital by Perlman
and this album on tape, and was content. If you love American
music, sung poetry, beautiful singing and deeply moving musicality,
this is an album you will treasure for a lifetime.

A classic recording of American songs.......2004-08-22

What can I say that hasn't already been said below? I only wanted to reiterate how wonderful this album is and assure the reader the sound is spectacular on CD. This is a live recording, and intentionally so, as the idea was to create a "parlor" experience as these were parlor songs to be sung by family and friends around the old upright piano. I especially liked the comment about the upright piano which, indeed, does croak and clank throughout the performance adding a note of "authenticity" without becoming obtrusive.

If only Ms. DeGaetani had graced my parlor...

The sessions of sweet silent thought stirred.......2003-11-22

I have never heard such unadulterated extraworldy sound emanate from two human voices and what would otherwise be firewood (the period instruments played by Gilbert Kalish). It stirs profound patriotism and a deep sentimentality for our early days when a civilized people pined to find virtue by examining its own body-- the north and the south, the small town, the simple flag, and the beauty of gentile manly and womanly love expressed through equisite song. There is no other music I would rather hear 'when summoning up the remembrance of things past.' The ghost of the early American parlor will prick your skin through these simple hymns and you may escape for a moment our troubled and busy times.

Average customer rating: Admirable communion with life F_kin' Hardcore Eccentric Centrist

Moondog Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Moondog 1 & 2 More Moondog/The Story of Moondog Viking of Sixth Avenue The German Years 1977-1999 Sound Grammar ASIN: B000000Z63 Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Caribea
2. Lullaby
3. Tree Trail
4. Death, When You Come To Me
5. Big Cat
6. Frog Bog
7. To A Sea Horse
8. Dance Rehearsal
9. Surf Session
10. Trees Against The Sky
11. Tap Dance
12. Oo Debut
13. Drum Suite
14. Street Scene

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Louis Hardin, known to pre-Watergate New Yorkers as the blind street musician Moondog, is also a fascinating and sui generis composer. This disc collects 1969 recordings of his orchestral works and 1972 small-group recordings of the two-minutes-and-under "rounds and canons" that are his most influential work. Janis Joplin covered his "All Is Loneliness," you can hear foreshadowings of Stereolab in his "Madrigals," and you only need to hear "Theme" to hear how profoundly he influenced Michael Nyman. Simple and beautiful, Moondog's rounds owe as much to the swing he heard on the radio in his youth as to Bach's canonical structures, and they vary as little and as much as roses in a row. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews:

Admirable communion with life.......2007-04-26

Blind he is our Moondog, but he does not bark for pity. He listens to and reproduces what he can capture with his ears. That means his work is a tremendous compilation of sounds from the real world, animals or just insects, his own baby and his own wife, or just some beating on a drum, or the frail dancing of a pipe along with a frog and a cricket. It is this extreme patchwork of sounds, voices, noise and music under the light enchantment from the moon that our artist is imagining in his eternal night. At least for him the moon never sets, never disappears over or behind the hills. "Surf Session" is the only piece that has some real length. The sea surf, the sea waves, the breaking of these waves we imagine along some pebbly seaside give a strange depth to the very both Asian and tremendously romantic music that manages to float forever over the rather powerful vortex of the sea, the ocean. The nearly Chinese constant grace-notes give the music a charm that is both discrete and so strong we seem to be able to imagine some Last Emperor advancing in the Forbidden City just before defeating his beleaguered wife and sons under the sign of some golden flower. The "Street Scene" is less fascinating because it is aimless, it lacks a direction and a destination? "I must never follow you and you must never follow me." He is roaming on and on, around and around, in that incessant, menacing, mechanical noise that comes up from the New York street locked up in between the walls of surrounding buildings. Can that be life? And what can it sound like to a blind man? Is it worse or less violent than what the famous Arthur Miller's Salesman felt, heard and experienced in his trapped two storied house in the middle of surrounding skyscrapers and under the crushing noise of thousands of motor vehicles? We will never know, except if we decide to do what dipus did when he realized his criminal inability to see the fate that was his. And he lived ever after like a dog in the eternal night of his blindness remembering the moonshine and the sunshine, tolerating the insults and petty assaults from those whose yes are not bleeding dead.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

F_kin' Hardcore.......2005-12-06

Louis T. Hardin did not graduate from the Juliard. He went to a school in Iowa and Memphis, but was mostly self taught. Listen to this with your eyes closed.

Eccentric Centrist.......2003-12-14

Odd-ball individuals are more common than geniuses, but Moondog is both. Harry Partch had the highest regard for this blind graduate of Julliard, whose fantastic get-up of skins, furs and horns might have detracted from the impact of less seminal music. Since he was immensely tall, he made quite an apparition. Moondog's primitivo get-up was odd, to say the least, but since Moondog was blind, one wonders who put the costume together. Moondog, like Harry, invented most of the instruments he played standing on the corener at the Avenue of the Americas. His music reaches back into prehistory in its effect, and has a kindness to it, if that may be a reasonable thing to say. Later, Moondog became sort of a darling of the avant garde, and composed for traditional instruments, but the earlier the recorded work, the more deep down and pure it was. The later work is slicker, but just as intelligent.

Average customer rating: Jen is underestimated. Music is wonderful. Awesome let down Defintely A Fan Breath of fresh air - Chapin gives us great gift in Linger

Linger Jen Chapin Manufacturer: Hybrid Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Ready Open Wide Short Stories Hope & Other Casualties Verities & Balderdash ASIN: B0001BS3Z2 Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

1. Little Hours
2. Good at Love
3. Me Be Me
4. Manchild
5. 'Til I Get There
6. City
7. Numbers
8. Hurry Up Sky
9. Passive People
10. Regular Life
11. Gold
12. I Could Fall (in Love with You)

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Jen Chapin has stretched out on Linger, her third disc, adding additional musicians and a string section to accompany her evocative tunes, rather than relying solely on husband Stephan Crump's double bass to underscore her shape-shifting vocalizations as she did on 2002's Open Wide. Her earlier effort was a stark, chilly affair, the only warmth coming from her idiosyncratic voice, which ranges from a Minnie Riperton meow, to a smoky blues moan, to an R&B rasp. Overtime Chapin's voice has become a more sophisticated instrument that moves effortlessly from the steamy pages of her diary to the after-hours clubs in Munich, to the tragedy of child soldiers in West Africa, without sounding a false note. A Berklee trained lyricist, and a tireless advocate against poverty and world hunger, Chapin combines the personal with political, writing with a conscience and grace that one rarely encounters. --Jaan Uhelszki

Customer Reviews:

Jen is underestimated. Music is wonderful........2004-12-27

My two favorite tunes on this CD are "Little Hours" and "Hurry Up Sky". I let the CD grow on me. It needs to be absorbed slowly. Her voice is beautifully subtle and has it's own distinct character. Although I am a fan of her father, there are no similarities. Jen is in a world of her own here. Lyrics are thoughfully written and the guitar on the CD is somewhat jazzy and brings some different textures to the pieces. Beautifully written music.
-Dave Carlin
david.j.carlin@verizon.net

Awesome.......2004-09-01

Jen's latest effort is simply awesome. She has assembled a band that totally supports her voice and brings out her best. The mix is professional and production is perfect for this collection of her songs. Whether you call it urban folk or jazz, this cd is bound to make you a fan.

let down.......2004-07-12

i bought this cd without knowing what i was getting (i do this a lot, working at a record store) - it has yet to grow on me. it strikes me as a poor attempt at trying to be like diana krall. chapin does not play a dominant instrument (flute on occasion), which makes me have less respect for her songwriting. maybe i am being unfair, i hope that i will change my mind; but, at this point, i am pretty sure i won't listen to this cd a whole lot. it just doesn't move me.

Defintely A Fan.......2004-07-05

I live in NYC and have had the good fortune to see and hear Jen Chapin perform live for the last few years. I have always felt that she deserved a larger audience and her new album Linger provides that opportunity.

Linger is a culmination of her best work, presenting a fully developed and original artist. Her album covers a wide range of moods and subjects. Her songs are about love, friendship and observations of the world, revealing a complex sensibility to relationships, love and personal integrity.

Her voice is intriguing and covers a wide range from sexy and gritty to gentle and lyrical, perfectly meeting the mood of each song. Her haunting melodies resonate for days.

Jen writes her own music and has a wonderful band who have worked with her for years, developing a creative sensitivity to one another. This allows for a free flowing, mutually supportive performance, building rich layers of sound.

Jen Chapin combines musicianship, beauty and intellect. She is a woman of substance, comfortable and honest with herself and the audience, a wonderful performer who says what she thinks and sings what she feels. Her multi- textured voice keeps you interested and emotionally involved.

This is a great recording.
Check it out!

Definitely a Fan,
Rosa Naparstek

Breath of fresh air - Chapin gives us great gift in Linger.......2004-06-16

I really really love this CD. Jen Chapin is a talented artist, to put it plainly. Her music is soulful, insightful, and inspires the heart. From her concerts in New York City and around the country (including here in the Bay area), I knew Jen was an "up-and-coming" artist with musical talent and important messages to share, but every time I listen to Linger it takes me to a whole new place....and I smile that she's "here," getting the national acclaim that she and her band has earned. I feel really lucky to own this CD. Thanks!

Average customer rating:

Linger The Cranberries Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: No Need to Argue Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? ASIN: B00000DDWZ Release Date: 1993-11-30

Average customer rating:

Linger Ficken' Good... Revolting Cocks Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt Industrial | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Industrial Dance | Industrial | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Big Sexy Land A New High in Low Beers, Steers + Queers Side Trax The Land of Rape and Honey ASIN: B000008JZ5 Release Date: 1993-09-28

Tracks:

1. Gila Copter
2. Creep
3. Mr. Lucky
4. Crackin' Up
5. Sergio
6. Ya Think I'm Sexy?
7. Rockabye
8. Butcher Flower's Woman
9. Dirt
10. Linger Ficken' Good

Average customer rating:

Linger Awhile/The Great Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B000059ZEI Release Date: 2001-05-07

Tracks:

1. Linger Awhile
2. These Things I Offer You
3. My Tormented Heart
4. Lonely Girl - Sarah Vaughan, Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
5. Mighty Lonesome Feeling
6. Blues Serenade
7. Lover's Quarrel
8. I Confess
9. Don't Be Afraid
10. I'm Crazy to Love You
11. Just a Moment More
12. Sinner or Saint
13. I'll Know
14. You Say You Care - Sarah Vaughan, Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
15. If Someone Had Told Me
16. Bianca
17. De Gas Pipe She's Leakin' Joe
18. As You Desire Me
19. Miracle Happened
20. Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face)
21. Time - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Sarah Vaughan
22. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)

Album Description

Two of the late great jazz vocalist's albums combined on one CD, 'Linger Awhile' & 'The Great Sarah Vaughan', both originally released in the early 50s on Columbia & now out-of-print. Includes original artwork. 2001 release. Standard jewel case.

Average customer rating: Kelly Hops Again! A FITTING TRIBUTE TO MOOSE CHARLAP WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL SONGS?

Kelly (1998 Studio Cast) Eddie Lawrence Manufacturer: Original Cast Record ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) Mata Hari (1995 Revival Cast) Breakfast at Tiffany's: World Premiere Cast Recording Baker Street, A Musical Adventure of Sherlock Holmes (1965 Original Broadway Cast) A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1951 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00000DGNP Release Date: 1998-12-15

Tracks:

1. Ode To The Brooklyn Bridge - Brian D'Arcy James
2. Heavyweight Champ Of The World - Eddie Lawrence/Chorus
3. That Old Time Crowd - Marcia Lewis/Chorus
4. The Times That Linger - Brian D'Arcy James/Marge Redmond
5. Augie Masters - Conrad John Schuck/Chorus
6. Home Again - Sandy Stewart/Chorus
7. I'll Never Go There Anymore - Sally Mayes/Brian D'Arcy James
8. It Kinda Makes You Wonder - Brian D'Arcy James/Jane Connell/Eddie Lawrence
9. The Insurance Game - George S. Irving
10. Go To Sleep Early - Jane Connell
11. Ballad To A Brute - Sandy Stewart
12. The Big Town - Conrad John Schuck/George S. Irving
13. Everyone Here Loves Kelly - Jane Connell/George S. Irving/Brian D'Arcy James/Eddie Lawrence/Marcia Lewis/Sally Mayes...
14. Bonus Track: I'll Never Go There Anymore (Pop Version) - Sandy Stewart

Customer Reviews:

Kelly Hops Again!.......2001-04-01

Compared to the "original" cast album, which was the two writers and a piano, this album is a dream. Still, it would have been great to hear the original orchestrations instead of a studio band. The performances on this CD give the show some credibility, unlike the first album. One wants to see more of this type of thing done. But put in the original orchestrations. How about Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Yearling, La Strada? If you are a serious collector nab this while you can.

A FITTING TRIBUTE TO MOOSE CHARLAP.......2001-03-22

HAVING BEEN ONE OF THE VERY FEW WHO SAW "KELLY" in 1965,I WAS VERY PLEASED TO FIND THIS STUDIO RECORDING OF THE ORIGINAL MUSIC. I DO MEAN ORIGINAL. SOME OF THE SONGS THAT WERE WRITTEN WERE LATER REMOVED BY A GROUP OF PANIKY PRODUCERS PRIOR TO THE NEW YORK OPENING. THEIR ACTIONS RESULTED IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SHOW THAN HAD BEEN ENVISIONED BY THE COMPOSERS. IT ALSO MADE "KELLY" A MONUMENTAL FLOP SO MUCH SO THAT ITS DEMISE WAS THE SUBJECT OF A COVER STORY IN "SATURDAY EVENING POST". IF YOU READ THE CD NOTES..IT IS ALL EXPLAINED THERE. THE CD IS DEDICATED TO MOOSE CHARLAP. THE PERFORMERS ARE FIRST RATE, INCLUDING BRIAN D'ARCY JAMES (TITANIC) AND RIGHT OUT OF THE 60'S, SANDY STEWART. IT MAY HAVE SOME SHORTCOMINGS, BUT OVERALL..EDDIE LAWRENCE SCORED WITH THIS CD!

WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL SONGS?.......2000-02-10

TO START OFF WITH. THIS DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A BROADWAY CAST ALBUM. IT SOUNDS LIKE AN OFF BROADWAY ALBUM BY LISTENING TO THE ORCHESTRA. IT SOUNDS MORE LIKE A BAND THAN AN ORCHESTRA. SECOND,I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE SCORE FROM THE ORIGINAL SHOW. WELL, READINNG MY BEST PLAYS OF 1964-1965, THEY LIST THE SONGS ON OPENING NIGHT AND A BUNCH OF SONGS ARE NOT ON THE ALBUM AND SONGS ON THE ALBUM ARE NOT LISTED IN THE BOOK. I AM CONFUSED. ANWAY, WHATEVER IS ON THE CD IS FAIR. ALL THE PERFORMERS ARE FIRST RATE, BUT LISTENING TO THE CD, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE MUCH. PRETTY AVERAGE MUSIC. TAKE A LESSON FROM THE DRAT!THE CAT! RECORDING ON VARESE SARABANDE. NOW THATS A GREAT STUDIO CAST ALBUM. I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY PICKED KELLY OVER MANY OTHER SHOWS THAT HAVE A MUCH BETTER SCORE THAT WERE NEVER RECORDED LIKE THE BODY BEAUTIFUL OR SHERRY OR LOVELY LADIES, KIND GENTLEMAN TO NAME A FEW. IF YOU ARE A BROADWAY SHOW COLLECTOR THAN THIS SHOULD BE IN YOUR COLLECTION, OTHERWISE, I WOULD PASS.

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