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░?????? Artist──: Carol Mennie ???????░
?????? Title───: I'm Not A Sometime Thing ???????
?▓??▓ Label───: CDM Records ???▓?
??????? Genre─: Jazz ???????
░?????? Source: CDDA ?????░
????? Encoder: Lame + EAC ????
??? Quality-─: VBR kbps 44,1/ 76,7 MB 11 tracks ???
??▓ Str.date-: 01-10-2004 ▓??
?? Rip.date-: 19-11-2004 ???
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▓▒ Track Title Time ▒▓
▓▒ ▒▓
▓▒ 01. Jazz, Jazz, Jazz 03:58 ▒▓
▓▒ 02. You Don't Know What Love Is 08:50 ▒▓
▓▒ 03. He Was Good To Me 04:54 ▒▓
▓▒ 04. Willow Weep For Me 04:53 ▒▓
▓▒ 05. Brown Eyes 05:50 ▒▓
▓▒ 06. I'm Not A Sometime Thing 04:47 ▒▓
▓▒ 07. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 05:17 ▒▓
▓▒ 08. Who Needs You 05:19 ▒▓
▓▒ 09. Too Long at The Fair 04:51 ▒▓
▓▒ 10. Angela 05:37 ▒▓
▓▒ 11. Lover Man 03:34 ▒▓
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?▓ CDM Records (USA) presents: ▓?
?▓ Carol Mennie - I'm Not A Sometime Thing ▓?
?▓ CDM 1004 ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Notes from cdbaby.com : ▓?
?▓ Carol Mennie makes her maiden voyage as a leader on ▓?
?▓ I'M NOT A SOMETIME THING, a marvelous mixture of jazz ▓?
?▓ and popular standards and originals with words and ▓?
?▓ music by her producer and long time partner, ▓?
?▓ guitarist/arranger/composer Dom Minasi. Mennie, who ▓?
?▓ made her recording debut last year with a moving ▓?
?▓ rendition of Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" on ▓?
?▓ Minasi's critically acclaimed Time Will Tell cd, here ▓?
?▓ has her mature vocal stylings surrounded by the ▓?
?▓ guitarist's inventive arrangements which showcase her ▓?
?▓ versatile voice in a variety of settings, accompanied ▓?
?▓ by a superb band featuring Minasi, cellist Tomas ▓?
?▓ Ulrich, pianist Michael Jefry Stevens, bassist Ken ▓?
?▓ Filiano and drummer Jay Rosen, with special guests ▓?
?▓ Patience Higgins on saxophones, Valery Ponomarev on ▓?
?▓ trumpet and flugel horn and Tom McGrath on ▓?
?▓ percussion. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ The opening Jazz, Jazz, Jazz is an appealing anthem ▓?
?▓ written by Minasi specifically for Mennie in the ▓?
?▓ early 90's, to supply the singer's songbook with a ▓?
?▓ jazz waltz -- the form which, as the lyrics note, had ▓?
?▓ been missing from her repertoire. The introductory ▓?
?▓ verse "I'm a singer of songs/I like to sing my songs ▓?
?▓ whenever I can/It's even better when you have a great ▓?
?▓ band" is a particularly appropriate beginning for the ▓?
?▓ date, spelling out the singer's philosophy and ▓?
?▓ approach to music. Higgins' soprano saxophone and ▓?
?▓ Minasi's guitar jazz things up with nicely as Mennie ▓?
?▓ sings brightly over the swinging rhythm section. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ You Don't Know What Love Is, one of jazz's most ▓?
?▓ recorded standards, is given a unique treatment in ▓?
?▓ this distinctive arrangement that begins with ▓?
?▓ Mennie's intimate reading of the Gene De Paul/Don Ray ▓?
?▓ lyric joined by Minasi's lone acoustic guitar, before ▓?
?▓ moving into a second chorus accompanied by bass and ▓?
?▓ bongo, recalling Peggy Lee's Fever. Higgins soprano ▓?
?▓ saxophone obbligato brings the rhythm section in and ▓?
?▓ the tempo up for a bluesy straight ahead section in ▓?
?▓ which the singer has some fun with the seriousness of ▓?
?▓ the song's words. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Rodgers and Hart's He Was Too Good For Me is a ▓?
?▓ poignant duet by Mennie and Minasi. Mennie's ▓?
?▓ deliberately torpid reading of her remorseful lines ▓?
?▓ ignites a cool flame of smoldering regret and ▓?
?▓ unfulfilled desire making the burning fire of this ▓?
?▓ archetypal torch song all too painful and real. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Mennie's passionate performance of Ann Ronnell's ▓?
?▓ Willow Weep For Me is set against the intensity of ▓?
?▓ Minasi's artful string arrangement featuring his own ▓?
?▓ guitar, Filano's bass and Ulrich's cello, driven by ▓?
?▓ Jay Rosen's drums. Mennie's shrieking out chorus ▓?
?▓ matches Minasi's own avant countrified solo in ▓?
?▓ shaking loose the branches on this old chestnut. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Brown Eyes is a beautiful ballad by Minasi with music ▓?
?▓ composed by the guitarist in the mid eighties and ▓?
?▓ words written a decade later. The song opens ▓?
?▓ ominously with bowed bass and cello, emphasizing the ▓?
?▓ subject's haunting quality, movingly expressed by ▓?
?▓ Mennie's smoky recitation of the lyrics. Valery ▓?
?▓ Ponomarev's muted trumpet solo and obbligati further ▓?
?▓ enhance the tune's moody emotion. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Minasi's I'm Not a Sometime Thing title track is a ▓?
?▓ bluesy swinger that Mennie delivers with a finger ▓?
?▓ snapping voice of experience that is alternately ▓?
?▓ swaggering and coy. Ponomarev is back on trumpet and ▓?
?▓ Higgins switches to tenor to give the band a classic ▓?
?▓ sound, reminiscent of the Jazz Messengers, which ▓?
?▓ pushes the singer to deliver one of her most ▓?
?▓ powerfully pleasing performances of the record. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Mennie begins In The Wee Small Hours with a sensitive ▓?
?▓ reading of the rarely heard verse of the Bob ▓?
?▓ Hilliard/David Mann romantic ode to nocturnal ▓?
?▓ longing, accompanied only by electric guitar, before ▓?
?▓ launching into the stirring arrangement built around ▓?
?▓ Ulrich's opulent cello and featuring another ▓?
?▓ excellent solo by Minasi. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Who Needs You is a novelty number by Minasi offering ▓?
?▓ a bit of comic relief to the serious tone of much of ▓?
?▓ the date's other selections. Starting with this silly ▓?
?▓ samba's first hilarious line of "Who needs another ▓?
?▓ bossa nova?" Mennie places her tongue firmly in her ▓?
?▓ cheek and keeps it there throughout, singing lines ▓?
?▓ like "Who needs another saxophone blowing in my ear / ▓?
?▓ The sound of trumpets always there" only to be ▓?
?▓ answered by Higgins' tenor and Ponomarev's flugel ▓?
?▓ horn on this paean to the partners jazz musicians. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Billy Barnes' sad show song Too Long At The Fair is ▓?
?▓ one of those Broadway standards that has received ▓?
?▓ surprisingly spare attention from jazz vocalists. ▓?
?▓ Mennie's affecting performance, reminiscent of Sarah ▓?
?▓ Vaughn's classic rendition of Send In The Clowns, ▓?
?▓ mines the lyrics for all the distressing ironies that ▓?
?▓ are further enhanced by Minasi's occasionally ▓?
?▓ satirical narrative arrangement. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Angela is a serious bossa nova by Minasi, one with a ▓?
?▓ melody written many years ago paired with a recently ▓?
?▓ penned lyric. The composition's mysterious mood makes ▓?
?▓ the music sound as if it might belong to a James Bond ▓?
?▓ movie soundtrack, particularly when Mennie breathily ▓?
?▓ intones the words "her smile, her lips are ▓?
?▓ dangerous." Ulrich and Minasi both complement the ▓?
?▓ singer's stirring performance with their own ▓?
?▓ compelling solos. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ Mennie pulls out all the stops for an exciting finale ▓?
?▓ of Lover Man. This uptempo workout on the Ram Ramirez ▓?
?▓ warhorse shows off the singer's swing in a fiery ▓?
?▓ Minasi arrangement that also features fine solos by ▓?
?▓ Higgins, Ponomarev, Stevens and the guitarist at his ▓?
?▓ wildest. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ I'M NOT A SOMETIME THING is an impressive debut by a ▓?
?▓ seasoned singer with a distinctive style that is all ▓?
?▓ of her own who isn't afraid to show it off. ▓?
?▓ Hopefully, from now on hearing Carol Mennie sing ▓?
?▓ should be something more of a regular thing. ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ ~ by Russ Musto ▓?
?▓ ▓?
?▓ More Information: ▓?
?▓ http://www.domminasi.com/ ▓?
?▓ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mennie ▓?
?▓ ▓?
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?▓ If you like this CD, buy it. ▓?
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