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| Artist : Curtis Stigers |
| Album : I Think It's Going To Rain Today |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Concord Jazz |
| Year : 2005 |
| Genre : Jazz |
| Ripper : Kournikova |
| Rip date : 2005-04-27 |
| Store date : 2005-04-19 |
| Size : 81 megs |
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| 1. My Babe 4:47 |
| 2. That's All Right 5:14 |
| 3. Crazy 5:09 |
| 4. Everybody Cryin' Mercy 4:32 |
| 5. I Can't Stand Losing You 4:00 |
| 6. Lullaby On The Hudson 5:12 |
| 7. I Think It's Going To Rain Today 4:27 |
| 8. Columbus Avenue 4:19 |
| 9. Side By Side 3:15 |
| 10. In Between Love 6:08 |
| 11. It Amazes Me 5:26 |
| 12. Take Me Out To The Ballgame 4:03 |
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| 56:32 |
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| Since signing to Concord and releasing Baby Plays Around, an album of |
| jazz standards, in 2001, Curtis Stigers has really found his footing, |
| and with I Think It's Going to Rain Today, he continues to recast pop |
| and rock ballads in easy, elegant jazz settings, an approach that allows |
| his expressive, slightly raspy voice to work its wonders. It is an |
| encouraging synthesis, and much like Cassandra Wilson, Stigers has an |
| unerring eye for pop material that gains depth and emotional range when |
| transferred to the jazz arena. Here he hits right out of the box with a |
| wonderful restructuring of Willie Dixon's "My Babe," resurrects Mose |
| Allison's Vietnam-era "Everybody Cryin' Mercy," and delivers an urbane |
| reading of an early Tom Waits' song, "In Between Love" that reveals the |
| impossible romantic that lurks under Waits' hipster growl. Stigers has |
| also developed into an impressive writer, as well, and the two originals |
| here, "Lullaby on the Hudson" and "Columbus Avenue," are both well |
| configured, literate vignettes that more than hold their own along side |
| such gems as Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," a |
| classic ballad of conflicted emotions edging gracefully into ennui. This |
| is an album of jazz-pop in the best sense, meaning it isn't pop done |
| jazzy, but pop actually done as jazz, which is an entirely different |
| horse, even if some radio programmers will fail to grasp it. The only |
| misstep here is the bonus track that closes the album, a less than |
| striking version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (featuring Stigers' |
| ridiculous attempt at a scat vocal) that originally appeared on the |
| soundtrack to the movie Game Six. Baseball songs aside, I Think It's |
| Going to Rain Today is a fine and nuanced album, and Stigers is on to |
| something here. He's an artist worth following closely, particularly if |
| his writing continues to develop. |
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