You're My Thrill
发行时间:2001-03-13
发行公司:Verve Reissues
简介:by Richard Ginell
With the swanky midnight mood of their previous collaboration
Here's to Life
in mind, Shirley Horn and arranger
Johnny Mandel
go at it again -- a move that is sure to send her legions of latter-day fans into blissful orbit. This time, though, the six sophisticated string-laden ballads are interspersed with five relatively short, swinging numbers with just Horn, her trio, and various instrumental guests. As a result, you get a better balanced album, not weighted too much in one direction or another.
Mandel
's orchestrations are paragons of subtlety, sometimes creeping almost imperceptibly like a slow moving fog upon Horn's trio. Like his singer,
Mandel
respects the value of silence and space; they're a well matched pair, their different ideas of timing dovetail together neatly. Though some of us would have wanted Horn and her jazzmen to stretch out more on the small group tracks, they do serve effectively as breathers, or intermezzos, in between the languorous collaborations with
Mandel
. In lieu of the participation of
Wynton Marsalis
(who contributed to
Here's to Life
),
Carl Saunders
offers some soulful trumpet obbligato work on "Solitary Moon." Guitarist
Russell Malone
and bassist
Brian Bromberg
also appear on the small group tracks --
Malone
even does a soft focused rockabilly thing on "Why Don't You Do Right?" -- while bassist
Charles Ables
and drummer
Steve Williams
stoke the rhythm in Horn's trio. Another worthy stylish outing for Horn.
by Richard Ginell
With the swanky midnight mood of their previous collaboration
Here's to Life
in mind, Shirley Horn and arranger
Johnny Mandel
go at it again -- a move that is sure to send her legions of latter-day fans into blissful orbit. This time, though, the six sophisticated string-laden ballads are interspersed with five relatively short, swinging numbers with just Horn, her trio, and various instrumental guests. As a result, you get a better balanced album, not weighted too much in one direction or another.
Mandel
's orchestrations are paragons of subtlety, sometimes creeping almost imperceptibly like a slow moving fog upon Horn's trio. Like his singer,
Mandel
respects the value of silence and space; they're a well matched pair, their different ideas of timing dovetail together neatly. Though some of us would have wanted Horn and her jazzmen to stretch out more on the small group tracks, they do serve effectively as breathers, or intermezzos, in between the languorous collaborations with
Mandel
. In lieu of the participation of
Wynton Marsalis
(who contributed to
Here's to Life
),
Carl Saunders
offers some soulful trumpet obbligato work on "Solitary Moon." Guitarist
Russell Malone
and bassist
Brian Bromberg
also appear on the small group tracks --
Malone
even does a soft focused rockabilly thing on "Why Don't You Do Right?" -- while bassist
Charles Ables
and drummer
Steve Williams
stoke the rhythm in Horn's trio. Another worthy stylish outing for Horn.