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NOMINATED FOR GRAMMY AWARD - BEST VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM 2009!Strengthening her leadership role alongside Kurt Elling and Patricia Barber as one of the most captivating and challenging vocalists on the contemporary jazz scene, Kate McGarry delivers, as its title suggests, an album of complex simplicity. McGarry says she has always been drawn to the space of silence between the notes. It is in these silences that the secrets of the songs reveal themselves. Putting that theory into practice McGarry's opens with reading of LET'S YOU'RE MY THRILL that, in their stark beauty revel in the the intoxicating lure of the unknown. Beneath her cover of The Cars' JUST WHAT I NEEDED trepidation and defensiveness pull like overpowering undertows. The Dylan anthem THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN', which McGarry dedicates to Barack Obama, crackles with the fearless confidence of pure hope The naked adulatory i carry your heart (based on the e.e cummings poem) rides on gentle waves of soul deep contentment. McGarry's vibrant YOU DON'T HAVE TO CRY emerges as a chanting, pulsating, affirmation of self honesty. Most cunning are the intentionally oblique THE PRIEST and MAN OF GOD, wherein the quest for divinity (and the accompanying burden of supposed infallibility) is questioned, but the answer is left for our hearts to individually pursue. - JAZZ TIMES MAGAZINE Oct 08 issue
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Let's Face the Music (6:35)
2 You're My Thrill (5:42)
3 Just What I Needed (6:21)
4 The Times They Are A-Changin' (4:23)
5 Caminhos Cruzados (5:48)
6 You Don't Have to Cry (4:31)
7 The Priest (5:27)
8 Flor de Lis (4:38)
9 I Carry Your Heart (5:47)
10 Man of God (3:23)
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