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I love this cd, Kenny is just so lyrical, another fav is the duo recording with Charlie Haden "Night in the city"

Just listened to some sound clips, it reminds me of a Mapleshade cd released about 10 years ago something like "percussion and brass' I'll try to dig out the cd, I cannot remember how it is filled

and here is another review. Amazing how many reviews you get once your famous. It would be ideal if really good cd's were also reviewed. Cassandra Wilson: Loverly (Blue Note) by Christina Pazzanese Boston Globe, June 10, 2008 Though Cassandra Wilson has done covers before -- everyone from Miles Davis to the Monkees -- this is her first set of jazz standards since 1988's "Blue Skies." Recorded in her hometown of Jackson, Miss., in a house where Wilson and the band lived together, Wilson sounds warm and relaxed here, like the sassy ringleader of a playful jam session that listeners are invited to drop in on, but only briefly. As always, Wilson loves to toy with melody and phrasing, a penchant that often yields delicious results. The well-worn "Caravan" rides a funky African groove as Wilson's voice floats overhead. "Lover Come Back" crackles with heat from Lonnie Plaxico's jaunty, jump-style bass. Backed only by some raw acoustic guitar, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" is gorgeously dark, while "Gone With the Wind," featuring lovely work from pianist Jason Moran, is undeniably sexy. Wilson's smoky alto and doin'-it-my-way attitude are pitch-perfect for the two blues classics here, Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" and "St. James Infirmary," made famous by Louis Armstrong. But sometimes Wilson's efforts to play with iconic melodies, as on "Til There Was You" or "The Very Thought of You," fall just shy of the mark, no doubt frustrating traditionalists

and another one. Cassandra Wilson: Loverly (Blue Note) by Thomas H. Green London Telegraph, June 7, 2008 Back in the Eighties, the American singer Cassandra Wilson was a founder of the M-Base movement which mixed African culture with funk and avant-garde jazz. For more than a decade, however, she's achieved commercial and critical success by re-imagining unexpected material as bluesy jazz. Her new album is ostensibly a straightforward collection of standards, even tackling Wouldn't It Be Loverly from the musical My Fair Lady, but it also embraces gentle experimentation grounded in the percussion of African drum expert Lekan Babalola. Thus Dixieland classic St James Infirmary becomes a rolling percussive groove and the whole album thrives on jamming between piano and rhythm section. Certainly easy on the ear, Loverly also nudges subtly and playfully at smooth jazz listeners' expectations.

Here is another review, by Karl Stark Philadelphia Inquirer, June 8, 2008 Singer Cassandra Wilson, whose work often veers beyond jazz, cuts a session largely of vintage standards for the first time since 1988. In her use of smears and squishing of time, Wilson seems to be channeling Betty Carter and Nina Simone. Wilson gets spacey at times, swallowing lines and impersonating a horn in a search for a novel take. The breathy obliqueness on "Gone With the Wind" doesn't score much. Wilson's pared-down take of "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" has more energy, but Marvin Sewell's reverberating steel guitar sound proves distracting on this duet, as it does elsewhere on the CD. Where Wilson shows some pizzazz is on the funky remake of "St. James Infirmary." There's no sidestepping the vibe here; Wilson cooks straight up. Likewise, "Dust My Broom" is a righteous blues with true fire. It's expected that Wilson, whose last CD, "Thunderbird," boasted scads of programming and loops, should approach standards with a twist. But the classic tunes often prove daunting enough to accentuate her less desirable habits

Norma is my favorite "alive" jazz singer, I do enjoy the new cd especially the title track, "Distance" but her previous double cd "Amoroso only more so" (2007)would be my pick as the best of the last few years, only surpassed by the recording she did with the late Jimmy Rowles "Well kept secret" I also think that her singing is getting better and better and as you said she sounds really sexy. All of it, lovely stuff.

somebody gave me one of her cd, she looks great but can't sing. I think that she is based in Germany!

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CIMP 345 Ins And Outs - Burton Greene CIMP 339 Signs Of The Times - Burton Greene CIMP 338 The Music - David Haney CIMP 337 Tuba Project - Lucian Ban CIMP 333 Sanctuary - Bobby Few CIMP 316 Isms Out - Burton Greene CIMP 314 Inside Out - Mary Anne Driscoll CIMP 298 Celebration of the Spirit - Soo-Jung Kae CIMP 290 Birds of Baghdad - Charles Eubanks CIMP 277 Premonition - Lucian Ban CIMP 274 Somethin' Holy - Lucian Ban CIMP 272 Poets of the Now - Ursel Schlicht CIMP 251 Peace Beyond Conflict - Burton Greene CIMP 250 New Beginnings - Charles Eubanks CIMP 248 Tools of the Trade - Denman Maroney CIMP 230 Recital - Dave Burrell CIMP 229 Re-entry - Yuko Fujiyama CIMP 202 Open Music - John Bickerton CIMP 191 Changes & Chances - Dave Burrell CIMP 182 Throptics - Burton Greene CIMP 177 Gallery - Marc Sabatella CIMP 175 Tag - Yuko Fujiyama CIMP 162 Moon Flower -Joseph Scianni CIMP 155 3 Plus 4 Equals 5 - Joseph Scianni CIMP 140 Expatriate - Bobby Few CIMP 125 Essence - Lee Shaw CIMP 122 Big Onion - Joseph Scianni CIMP 103 Human Flowers - Marilyn Crispell Are these recorded in Redwood?? how is the piano sound??

The third piano cd is with John Lewis (wonderful)

I have most Helen Merrill recordings on some of them her voice sounds wonderful!!!???

[ Does anyone actually like the sound? I got a fairly good audio system and I find CIMP cd's to be mediocre soundwise. The recording venue must be very small, maybe to small to even fit a piano in it. Did you ever hear a CIMP recording with a pianist? I only have one CIMP cd (out of about 20) that sounds pretty good, it is the one of Rosella Washington, the voice is well captured and the bass although on the light side sounds pretty natural.

Thanks guys, it was fun!! I've been wrong before?? but then again I am not the only one, even people with all the resources did believe that Sadam had weapons of mass destruction. ;=}

Yes I believe you, they do bottle tap water in the USA,, !!!!!!!!

Bottled water?? I am all for it, where I live one can taste strong chlorine. For me the best way to taste if the water is good or bad, is to have some with your espresso, Having a strong coffee shows water difference easily. My regular coffee shop only serve bottled water with the espresso's, this is after I made the boss taste the difference. Unfortunately the espresso price went up 10c.

I wish I did then I would not need to spend the money. ;=)

Well, considering that there have been many psycho-acoustic studies that demonstrated that human acoustic memory is only about 10 seconds, you would be a supreme human specimen to hold an acoustic memory for as long as 120 to 200 amp conversion would take. Maybe the difference is in a new clean power supply not in the amp rating??

Found this interesting remark...... Because a phenomenon cannot either be explained or proven with the science that objectivists hold up as absolute does not mean that it does not exist. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is present, does it make a sound? If God cannot be broken down into a mathematical equation, does that mean there is no God? Has no one heard anything about Quantum Physics, which questions the existence of an absolute objective reality? And are we really so sure of ourselves that we can proclaim with absolute certainty that only what we can “prove” is real, when we still don’t fully understand the evolution of the universe and human life as we know it, let alone how the human body functions? As countless listeners and reviewers have noted, equipment that measures wonderfully does not always sound good. Conversely, equipment that does not measure well often captivates listeners accustomed to the sound of live acoustic performance. Two pieces of gear with equal measurements can sound markedly different. Does this mean that the people who hear those differences don’t know what they’re hearing or talking about? Does it mean that scientific measurements are at best an inadequate description of reality? Or does it suggest that there are mysteries to sound, perception, and levels of reality that human beings have yet to fully uncover, explore and understand? And if in the end there are mysteries we have only begun to comprehend and explain, are we capable of entertaining them as real, or must we continually dismiss them in favor of the black and white absolutes that seem to have paralyzed public and political debate at the start of the 21st century?

Maybe good but does nothing for me!!

Thinking of putting a little rock crystal on my cd player, just for luck!! Please check this out, this is fantastic........

Do you think they were using $300 power cords on the equipment to record that? Do you mean that it could have been even better??? Well another 2 persons confirmed my findings, and I took out the audiophile powercord and after a few hours I realised that I could not do without it. So here it goes, I took the plunge and placed my order.

"......As far as the tests, whenever one is testing audio equipment, one quickly enters the realm of the subjective. There are just too many variables. For instance, what kind of music did you listen to? Was it music that each person was familar with? How familar? What volume was it at? Was it the same exact db each time? Did you always use one cable the first time you listened an the other the second time or did you mix them up for different tunes? Was everyone sitting and listening together? People in groups can be influenced by the perception of other people in the group......" The way I did the test is as follows, first we listened to music for about 20 min not mentioning that any test would take place, this was done with the audiophile power cord. Only then did I mentioned that I would like to find out their opinions about the power cords I explained that one was a std cord the other a 300$ cord. At no stage did they know which cord they have been listening to. I replayed the last track with the same power cord, then changed the audiophile power cords to the std cord. Again nobody was aware which cord was playing. The track used was one of my best demo disc which contains a stunningly good vocal recording with, piano, bass, drums. It is by Dinah Shore "Dinah sings, Previn plays" (Which is to me one of the best recording of a female voice) I think that it was recorded in the late 50's and just sounds so natural, Dinah is in the room with you. It is easy music, everybody knew the tune "It has to be you" The volume was the same at all time as my amp has a digital display. I repeated the test twice always with the same results, even when I swoped the sequence. Yes it can still be a coincidence All 5 people listened at different time. I have 2 audiophiles friends coming this weekend I will repeat the same test. Personally I "think" that I can hear a difference, but I am keen to try other cords, if possible cheaper as 300$ seems over the top.