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Music CD - Al Jarreau: Love Songs
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Music CD: Love Songs
Artist: Al Jarreau
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $8.09
Your Save: $ 3.89 ( 32% )
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. We're In This Love Together
2. Teach Me Tonight
3. So Good
4. After All
5. Wait for the Magic
6. Your Song
7. Heaven and Earth
8. Through It All
9. Let It Rain
10. Not Like This
11. Brite 'N' Sunny Babe
12. Secrets of Love
13. My Foolish Heart
14. Goodhands Tonight, George Benson & Al Jarreau featuring Patti Austin
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227994105
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 2008-01-29
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: moonlighting theme missing
Comment: unreasonable collection, missing one of the best love songs moonlighting theme, could do better with double cd, doesn't do Al Jarreau any fairness with his extensive discography, hope those record company executives read our comments
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Summary: Al Jarreau Love Songs
Comment: This is a compilation of all the love songs from different Al Jarreau albums. its OK but not fantastic.
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Summary: A total disgrace and insult.
Comment: We all love brother Al but this marketing garbage is an insult to me and a disgrace to the legacy of this great artist...this man produce enought great music for an anthology of love songs collection but certainly not this nonsense.Lets hope for the best next time around.
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Summary: Accompaniment D'Amour
Comment: Few singers convey the joy of romantic love the way Al Jarreau does. His distinctive voice is imbued with happiness and hopefulness. When he wraps his vocal cords around a love song, he fills it with all the optimism of a new infatuation and the contentment of long lasting love.
For this collection, released just in time for Valentine's Day, Jarreau personally picked his favorite Love Songs from his 30-year discography. There's not a clunker in the lot. "We're in This Love Together," one of his signature tunes, is an obvious opening choice that sets the stage for an hour's worth of sweet romance, elastic vocal note bending and oh-so-cool scatting.
The only performer to win Grammy awards in pop, jazz and R&B, Jarreau's versatility is on display here. Chestnuts from his hitmaking heyday in the `80s like "After All," "So Good" and "Teach Me Tonight" may sound dated with their electronic keyboards and Sanborn sax, but they contrast nicely with the Brazilian acoustics of "My Foolish Heart" from 2004's Accentuate the Positive and the Fender Rhodes with string section on Elton John's "Your Song" from back in '76.
A virtual "Greatest Hits of Love," this CD is the perfect Valentine's soundtrack, a sensual accompaniment d'amour for those special moments when the irresistible scent of romance is in the air.
Originally published in Port Folio Weekly, 2/19/08
copyright © 2008 Jim Newsom/Port Folio Weekly. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a poor "Collection" of "Love Songs"... Why not a Box Collection instead?
Comment: Considering that almost the whole Al Jarreau catalog of albums is currently unavailable (most of them were originally issued under the Warner Bros. label, and Rhino is now part of the Time/Warner group) the geniuses of Rhino/WEA should have considered to issue a 4-CD Box collection instead! C'mon...!!!!
This "Love Songs" collection, in addition with some re-recorded tunes, is really a very cheap one! Even one star is too much for it!
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Editorial Reviews:
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One of contemporary music's premiere vocalists, Al Jarreau is the only singer ever to win GRAMMY® Awards in three distinct genre categories-R&B, pop, and jazz-a testament to his remarkable and enduring cross-over appeal. Jarreau's most recent GRAMMY came at the 2007 ceremony, when he was honored with Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. With many of his biggest hits coming during his long Warner Bros. era, Jarreau's career now spans five decades-but until now, has not included a LOVE SONGS release among its wealth of treasures. Possessed of a voice suited to the rhythm of romance and language of the heart, Jarreau's genius shines on this stirring new collection.
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