Tutu Puoane - Song
Release Date.: 10/24/2008
Store Date...: 01/15/2008
Source.......: CDDA
Packer.......: 0.38g
Style........: Jazz
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Encoder......: Lame
Quality......: VBRkbps
01. just about everything 05:43
02. thats all 05:03
03. for the time being 05:40
04. rejoice 04:26
05. prologue to 01:14
06. he needs me 05:01
07. you are my sunshine 04:59
08. mango picker 05:33
09. song 04:26
10. a case of you 04:33
11. ke a go leboga 03:42
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50:20 min
66.35 mB
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In the somewhat overcrowded field of contemporary female
jazz-and-related-musics vocalists, Tuto Puoane, a South African-born
Belgian resident who has sung with the Afro-Latino band Tucan Tucan
as well as with the South African National Youth Big Band and Breda's
Frits Bayens Big Band, stands out courtesy both of her understated
but consistently affecting voice (an intimate, pure sound with just
the right amount of tremolo) and of her range of material, which
unaffectedly embraces everything from the 'hip' jazz of Bob Dorough,
through the unashamed emotionalism of the torch song ('He Needs Me')
and the pep of the reworked standard (an intriguingly rejigged
'You are My Sunshine'), to the grace of traditional material
('Ke A Go Leboga').
She also pays, on this subtly compelling album, a convincing visit
to one of Joni Mitchell's most affecting songs, 'A Case of You',
personalising it by substituting 'Africa' for 'Canada' in its second
verse.
Versatile without being contrivedly eclectic, and profoundly emotional
without resorting to undue dramatics, Tutu Puoane is a singer to watch.
www.tutupuoane.info