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Genre: Electronic, Funk Style: Synth-pop Tracklist: 01 Michael Sembello - Gremlins Mega Madness 02 Quarterflash - Make It Shine 03 Peter Gabriel - Out Out 04 Jerry Goldsmith - Gift 05 Jerry Goldsmith - Gizmo 06 Jerry Goldsmith - Mrs Deagle 07 Jerry Goldsmith - Gremlin Rag Link to download: Product Description Rare 7-Cut Mini Album featuring Michael Sembello (Gremlins. Mega Madness), Peter Gabriel (Out Out), Quarterflash (Make it Shine), and Jerry Goldsmith (The Gift / Gizmo / Mrs. Deagle / The Gremlin Rag). 'Geffen's official soundtrack to the 1984 smash Gremlins remains a legendary abomination, jettisoning the vast majority of Jerry Goldsmith's deliciously dark score in favor of tepid pop songs from Michael Sembello and Quarterflash. It's taken 16 years and a bootleg label to set the record straight, but at long last, here it is: Goldsmith's original Gremlins score in its entirety, and time hasn't dimmed its energy or creativity. Suspenseful but wry, the music perfectly captures the manic black comedy of Joe Dante's film. Deagle' and 'The Gremlin Rag' rank among Goldsmith's finest individual themes, but Gremlins is far more than the sum of its parts, and ranks among the composer's finest hours.

The Mogwai edition appends Goldsmith's musical contributions to Dante's segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide 'Gremlins is one of those fantastic Christmas films which can be watched anytime - but has an added magic when watched during the Christmas season.

It's a film that nearly everyone has seen and so unites the land in the knowledge that a gremlin can only survive for so long in a microwave. The film is playful and fun, so as a child I loved it. It courted controversy when it first came out as it was deemed too violent to warrant a PG rating, but it is essentially a family comedy and the violence is basically cartoon style and adds to the general naughtiness of the film.

As I get older I can recognise the more sad aspects to this film, such as the death of Kate's dad one previous Christmas making it a time of great unease for her. I'm not going to mention any of the plot as it is so well known, and for those who don't know it - they have the good fortune of being able to experience it for the first time. The film was a marketing success with the cute Gizmo and a few Gremlins with distinct individuality (such as Stripe), I always wondered when you could safely feed a Mogwai to ensure it didn't turn into a gremlin, after all any time of day is after midnight! The humour and the frenetic pace of the film was typical of the emerging comedy-horror genre of the `80s, with other blockbusters such as Beetlejuice, Critters and Ghostbusters. The film was always going to be a success and a family favourite, but a key factor in ensuring this went down so well is the fantastic award winning score by Jerry Goldsmith, the main theme remains one of my all time favourite pieces of film music.' 'gremlins is a classic,of that there can be little debate,its legacy is unchallenged and the merchandise born from this is still in demand to this day,some 22 years after its release.

The film tells the tale of a mogwai called gizmo who ends up in the hands of billy,a geeky teenager with the strict instuctions of dont feed gizmo after midnight,dont let daylight touch gizmo and dont let water near him or the results could be destructive,as it happens all of the above happen in one way or another and demon mogwais called gremlins are spawned who bring chaos and death to the sleepy town. The film has a dark humour to it but can more likely be deemed a light horror that is widely accepted as an 80s classic,if you aint seen this then you should.' 'Even today you can still purchase toys and other items based on the film, which only goes to prove the popularity and success of it. And I'm not surprised. Gremlins is simply great, and I think that Gizmo must be the most adorable and most emotionally realistic creature ever created in motion picture history.

Gremlins is a horror comedy - less horror and more comedy by todays standards - in which a young man called Billy Peltzer takes possesion of a new pet (Gizmo) and gets more than what he bargained for when he doesn't follow the 'rules.' One of my favourite scenes is when one of the gremlins meets his demise in the microwave.

But without a doubt my favourite scene from the entire film is when Gizmo is playing the trumpet on christmas day. The music to Gremlins is catchy and very film style eighties. Gremlins would be a brillient purchase to make as it is just fantastic.' 'Gremlins is nothing less than a fantastic movie with a fun and very original plot. Many of the film's characters are not given a lot of room to be expanded upon and diversions are created around the major characters and their lives simply to clear the path for the real stars of the movie.

The stunning use of puppetry and animatronic creatures remains flawless even today. Creature features thses days are made with all the break through technology in computer CGI and yet somehow, can fail to be convincing enough. But Gremlins never ceases to amaze with its fantastic special effects and devious story. Surely a prime example of exactly how modern day movie making should be.

You must buy this product.' DREAM (1994) Credits: Jimmy Scott ( vocals )1-9 / Junior Mance ( piano ), Peyton Crossley ( drums ), Milt Jackson ( vibraphone )2 / Claston Patience Higgins ( sax )5 / Rick Zunigar( guitar ), Mitchell Froom ( organ )7 / James W. 'Red' Holloway ( sax ), Rick Zunigar( guitar ) Produced by Mitchell Froom Notes: Recorded by Tchad Blake: at RPM Studios / Feb.14-16, 1994 Tracklist: 01 Don't Take Your Love from Me 02 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream 03 I Cried for You 04 So Long 05 You Never Miss the Water (Till the Well Runs Dry) 06 It's the Talk of the Town 07 I'm Through With Love 08 Laughing on the Outside 09 Dream Link to download: 'One of the great late-night albums' is a phrase that could be applied very easily to any of Jimmy Scott's works. This one is simple and understated, just lovely and melancholy at the same time. He always sounds like a little boy crying, but its that vulnerability, that quavering voice that just grabs you.'

'If I were going to be stranded on a desert island and could only take 2 CD's, this would be one. (The other would be Kind of Blue). This is quintessential late nite jazz. ' 'Jimmy Scott's voice should be a national treasure.

Its androgynous quality may confuse those who like to categorize what they're listening to. (Is it a woman?

An angel?) This album is torch music at its most dramatic. All the tempos are slow; the alto voice wavers until you think it will break. Instead of trying to peg his precursors or his students, just listen and appreciate Mr. Scott as one-of-a-kind.'

'I have never heard a voice as good as this come from a male singer. He makes everything seem easy and calm. The only real review I can give is that he is now in the top three of my favorite singers.

This is truly a great album.' ALL OF ME - LIVE (2004) Credits: 2-8,10,12 / Jimmy Scott( vocals )2-8,10,12 / Jon Regen ( piano ),Hilliard 'Hill' Greene ( bass )Dwayne 'Cook' Broadnax ( drums )T.K. Blue ( alto saxophone, flute ) Produced by Tetsuo Hara Notes: Recorded on July 27, 2003 at the jazz club 'B flat', Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan Tracklist: 01 Straight No Chaser (instrumental) 02 All Of Me 03 You Don't Know What Love Is 04 I'll Close My Eyes 05 Pennies From Heaven 06 Time After Time 07 Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 08 I Cried For You 09 Encore 10 Why Was I Born?

12 Everybody's Somebody's Fool Links to download: These are the live recordings and the SACD & CD, by Hyper Magnum Sound and 24 bit Mastering, include 9 songs from the second set and encores. Very excellent live show it was. 'After seeing Jimmy Smith perform 'Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child' at Antony and the Johnson's show at Carnegie Hall, I started shopping around for his best recorded version.

This is by far one of the best album's he's got out right now, and nearer in sound to his live performance than anything else I could find. Sad, slow, and down-tempo, I can't get enough.

And even though the arrangement of 'Sometimes.' Doesn't have the deep, funeral dirge sound of his Carnegie performance, it's still an awesome arrangement.' Biography: Jimmy Scott (July 17, 1925 in Cleveland) is an American jazz vocalist.Scott has Kallmann's syndrome, a genetic condition which stunted his growth at five feet and prevented him reaching puberty, leaving him with a high, undeveloped soprano voice, hence his nickname 'Little' Jimmy Scott.However, it was his extraordinary phrasing and romantic feeling that made him a favorite singer of fellow artists like Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson.Scott was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Authur and Justine Stanard Scott, third in a family of ten.

As a child he got his first singing experience by his mother's side at the family piano, and later, in church choir. His father was absent most of the time as he was taken with drink, gambling, and other women. Ji mmy worshipped his mother, and whatever money he could make doing odd-jobs, went to her to help the family. At thirteen, he was orphaned when his mother was killed by a drunk driver. Witnesses say that she pushed one of Jimmy's siblings out of the way of the car, but in the process of saving her child's life, she lost her own.Scott first rose to national prominence as 'Little Jimmy Scott' in the Lionel Hampton Band when he sang lead on the late 1940s hit 'Everybody's Somebody's Fool'.

Credit on the label, however, went to 'male vocalist', a slight to his talent and a blow to his career. A blow which would reoccur several years later, when his vocal on 'Embraceable You' with Charlie Parker on the album, 'One Night in Birdland' was credited to female vocalist, Chubby Newsome.In 1963, it looked as though Scott's luck had changed for the good.

Signed to Ray Charles's Tangerine label, he recorded under the supervision of the great man himself, one of the great jazz vocal albums of all time, 'Falling in Love is Wonderful'. The record was yanked from the shelves in a matter of days while Jimmy was honeymooning due to a contract he had signed earlier with Herman Lubinsky.Scott's career faded by the late 1960s and he returned to his native Cleveland to work in a hospital and as an elevator operator in a hotel.He resurfaced in 1991 when he sang at the funeral of his long-time friend Doc Pomus. Afterwards Lou Reed recruited him to sing back-up on the track 'Power and Glory' on his 1992 album Magic and Loss, partially inspired by Pomus' death. Afterwards, Scott was seen on the series finale of David Lynch's show Twin Peaks, singing 'Sycamore Trees.' He was featured on the soundtrack of the follow-up film Fire Walk With Me. This brought him to the attention of the music industry and he has enjoyed significant success since then, singing and recording.His comeback took off in earnest with the 1992 release of the album 'All The Way' on Sire Records, produced by Tommy Lipuma and featuring artists such as Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, and David 'Fathead' Newman.

Jimmy Scott was nominated for a grammy for this album. He followed this up with the album 'Dream' in 1994, and the jazz-gospel album 'Heaven' in 1996. He also recorded an album of mostly pop and rock covers, 'Holding Back the Years' in 1998.

In 1999, his early recordings on the Decca label were re-released on CD, as were all of his recordings with the Savoy Label between 1952 and 1975 in a 3 disc Box Set. In 2000, Jimmy Scott was signed to the Milestone jazz label, and recorded four critically acclaimed albums, each produced by Todd Barkan, and featuring a variety of jazz artists, including as Wynton Marsalis, Renee Rosnes, Bob Kindred, Eric Alexander, Lew Soloff, George Mraz, Lewis Nash, and many more, as well as Jimmy's own touring and recording band 'The Jazz Expressions'. He also released two live albums, both recorded in Japan, and featuring the Jazz Expressions.Jimmy Scott's career has spanned nearly sixty years, and in that time he has performed with a list of artists that read like a history of jazz music in that time, including Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughn, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Ray Charles, Wynton Marsalis, and Peter Cincotti. He has also performed with a host of musicians from other genres of music, such as David Byrne, Lou Reed, Flea, Michael Stipe, and Anthony & The Johnsons.Most recently he has appeared in live performances with Pink Martini, and continues to perform to audiences internationally at music festivals and at his own concerts.Mr Scott lives in New Jersey, with his wife Jeannie. ( ) The world is finally catching up to Jimmy Scott.

After more than five decades of being admired by fellow vocalists and a select claque of hipsters, the man whom Joseph Hooper, in a New York Times Magazine profile, called 'perhaps the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th century' is finding a dedicated international audience for his unique, emotionally penetrating art. And the 75-year-old singer is presently working on his autobiography with David Ritz, the award-winning author noted for previous collaborations with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, B.B. King, and Smokey Robinson; Faith in Time: The Jazz Life of Jimmy Scott is scheduled for fall 2002 publication by Da Capo Press.The life story of Jimmy Scott is filled with heartbreak and hope, qualities he expresses most directly in his gripping, highly personalized readings of material from the Great American Songbook. Over the Rainbow, the singer's second CD for Milestone Records, follows the pattern of last year's acclaimed Mood Indigo: producer Todd Barkan surrounds him with world-class jazz instrumentalists, including guitarist Joe Beck, bassist George Mraz, drummer Grady Tate, vibraharpist Joe Locke, and saxophonist David 'Fathead' Newman, in a set of songs that Scott has known- and in most cases performed-throughout his life.Scott was 14 when he first heard Judy Garland sing 'Over the Rainbow' in The Wizard of Oz. His mother had recently been killed in a traffic accident, and he and his brothers and sisters were sent off to different foster homes. The song, he says, 'spoke to my soul.' It 'became a symbol of hope, an escape from misery, the promise of lasting love.'

'Pennies from Heaven' carries a similar meaning. 'Just keep trying to make it some way,' he explains. 'Pennies will be t here for you.' The freedom with which Scott's voice floats so effortlessly over rhythm sections has been likened to that of the legendary tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Scott recalls that 'Don't Take Your Love from Me,' which he performs on Over the Rainbow, was one of two tunes he sang the first time he sat in with Young, during the mid-1940s at a club in Meadville, Pennsylvania.'

Billie Holiday loved him, and I could dig why,' Scott says of Young. 'Listening to him helped me so much in the expression of singing.

It was such a comfortable thing to have him play between your vocal lines and to have solos played by him.' Holiday, when once asked by a reporter which singers she liked, named only Scott. He returns the compliment by applying his distinctive style to one of her signature songs, 'Strange Fruit,' poet Lewis Allan's haunting tale of a lynching. Scott also reprises a couple of his own signature songs on Over the Rainbow: 'Everybody's Somebody's Fool,' the ballad that first brought him fame in 1950 as featured vocalist with the Lionel Hampton big band, and 'When Did You Leave Heaven?,' the old Bing Crosby favorite that Scott made all his own with a 1955 single that became something of a jukebox hit.Scott's unique way with songs, which cuts to the emotional core of lyrics with its subtly delayed timing, carefully clipped syllables, and ringing sustains, has inspired numerous other singers for half a century. Nancy Wilson and Frankie Valli borrowed elements of Scott's style in the Sixties, while Lou Reed and Madonna have championed his singing in recent times.

'He is without a doubt the master of the ballad form,' Wilson once stated. Ray Charles, another Scott fan, has said that 'he defined what 'soul' is all about in singing long before anyone was using the word.' James Victor Scott was born on July 17, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he still lives. He was one of ten siblings, all of whom sang in church to their mother's piano accompaniment. Like one of his brothers, he never experienced puberty, the result of Kallmann's Syndrome, a hereditary hormonal deficiency that stunted his growth and kept his voice from developing beyond boyhood.

'I fought through it,' Scott says of the condition. 'It didn't matter. I was accepted into show business back in the early Forties. That helped a lot, and it never bothered me like it might some others.' The singer's big break came in 1949, when Lionel Hampton hired him on the recommendation of Paul Gayten and billed him as 'Little Jimmy Scott.' 'Everybody's Somebody's Fool,' recorded at Scott's second session with Hampton, gave the singer his first and only chart hit, placing at No. 6 on Billboard's list of R&B jukebox platters.

The labels of some Decca 78s mistakenly credited Irma Curry, Hampton's female vocalist at the time, but many fans knew better, especially women, who swooned at Scott's every deliciously split syllable during his year on the road with Hampton.Scott's hit and three other songs recorded with the Hampton orchestra, along with early Fifties solo sides for the Coral and Brunswick labels, were reissued in 1999 on the GRP CD Everybody's Somebody's Fool. Also released that year was the three-CD The Savoy Years and More containing his 1952 recordings for Roost Records and his 1955-75 output for Savoy. Scott also made a magnificent album for Ray Charles's Tangerine label and another for Atlantic, but Savoy threatened suit and had both suppressed.The singer spent long periods away from the microphone. He worked for a time as a hotel shipping clerk and as a caretaker for his ailing father.

Scott returned to performing in 1990, and his career took off again two years later when Seymour Stein heard him singing at songwriter Doc Pomus's funeral and signed him to the Warner Bros.-distributed Sire label. Scott recorded two albums for Sire, one for Warner Bros. Proper, and one for Artists Only! Before joining Milestone Records last year.The past couple of years have seen Scott making triumphant tours of Europe and Japan, as well as being the subject of a Bravo Profiles television special in which he was saluted by such admirers as Alec Baldwin, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, David Lynch, Joe Pesci, Lou Reed, and Frankie Valli. And Scott has become a fashion model in an Italian advertising campaign for a new line of cashmere sweaters by celebrated Milan designer Saverio Palatella.The wisdom that Jimmy Scott has acquired during his often-difficult life oozes from every track of Over the Rainbow. As David Ritz observes so eloquently in his booklet notes for the Milestone CD: 'In the fragility of his voice, there is enormous strength.

His songs say that we can live with our inconsistencies; we can be fools but still survive; we can still hope for those pennies from heaven. We look to him for lessons in how to live our lives with patience, dignity, and a sense of wondrous beauty.'

Lou Reed on Jimmy Scott. 'I first met Jimmy Scott through the remarkable songwriter Doc Pomus. I'd heard about him for many years. At the gathering after Doc's passing Jimmy sang. He has the voice of an angel and can break your heart. He did that day and many others.I've heard and even sung with Jimmy many times since then.

Here is the singer's singer if labels mean any thing. Listening to Jimmy is like having a performing heart.

The experience of life and the art of expression sing through Jimmy and make us partners in his incredible passion. I love him and I never want to say goodbye. When the song stops with Jimmy's last note we're back in the world as it was.

Not quite so pretty, not quite so passionate. And we can only wait for Jimmy to sing again and take us that little bit higher.' HEAVEN (1992) Credits: Alastair Gavin-Keyboards, Organ (Hammond) Andy Houston-Assistant Chuck Sabo-Drums David Coulter-Didjeridu Gavyn Wright-String Conductor Graham Bonnet-Engineer Helen Terry-Vocals (Background) Ian Shaw-Vocals (Background), Choir, Chorus Jeff Scantlebury-Percussion Kick Horns-Arranger, Brass Tracklist: 01 Heart To Heart 02 You'll Never Know 03 I Am A Woman 04 Cry 05 Heaven 06 Never Gonna Give You Up 07 Tomorrow 08 I'm Missing You 09 The Right Track 10 Heaven (Reprise) Link to download: 'I just bought 'Fallen Angel', which I will also reveiw, but nothing beats 'Heaven'.

I bought the CD in 1992 in Tokyo. Had I purchased a tape or LP, it would have been worn out years ago. The material is wonderful, and Ms. Morris' voice is amazing.

I would agree with the other reviewer that her voice is like Lisa Stansfield's, but much lusher. I also have 'Blue Valentine', which was recorded live. It too is wonderful with a very blues/ jazz feel to it. Just buy them all.'

'I heard her perform in London, was blown away and immediately went out and bought all of her CDs. She reminds me of Lisa Stansfield (but with a much stronger and richer voice).' BLUE VALENTINE (1996) Credits: John Marshall - Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals (Background) Sarah Jane Morris- Vocals, Producer, Main Performer, Mixing Kwaku 'Reg' Dzidzornu - Percussion, Vocals (Background) Ray Staff - Mastering Scott Firth - Guitar (Acoustic), Bass (Electric), Vocals (Background) Mornington Lockett - Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor) Martyn Barker - Drums Chris Lewis- Producer, Mixing, Engineer Notes: Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's Club, London on 15th September 1994. Download the best of syleena johnson zip. Tracklist: 01 Closest Thing to Heaven 02 TKO 03 My Day Will Come 04 Leaves Around the Door 05 Me and Mrs. Jones 06 Too Close for Comfort 07 Haunt Me 08 Butterfly 09 Wake Up Everybody 10 Love Me Like You Used To 11 Sweet Little Sister 12 Afraid of Dark 13 Fragile 14 Up from the Skies 15 Blue Valentine Links to download: 'As I said in my Fallen Angel review, the lady is dynamite and album after album keeps amazing me.

She's definitely my favorite singer. When I'm happy, I listen to her. When I'm down, I listen to her. I never seem to tire of her incredible voice, which is kind of a jazz-soul-bluesy-funk, three-and-a-half octave range thing she's got going on.

Believe me, she's for real. I saw her at Ronnie Scott's in London last December and she rocked the house.

On stage, she's like a Janis Joplin - you can't help but be moved and fall in love. Word has it that she's appearing in New York in September 2001.

For now, if you live in or are going to England, check out her website: sarahjanemorris.com. She performs in the UK a lot, and also in Europe. Talk about England's best-kept secret! Time to share her.' 'Sarah Jane Morris has the most incredible voice and this CD is her best. Everyone who I take to see her in concert becomes an instant fan.' 'Sarah Jane Morris's voice has a fantastic haunting quality and all the songs on this album are sung in a way that is beyond perfect.

Sarah's voice has pathos, longing and heart breaking sincerity. Buy this album for listening to on cold winter nights as a storm brews outside.' 'Nice laidback album of jazzy vocals with a sort of tight modern sound. Recorder Live by British singer Sarah jane Morris at London’s club night Ronnie Scott’s in 1994.

She’s backed by a band that has nice electric keys and a good mellow jazz feel. The set includes some originals plus some excellent covers such as “T.K.O.” and “Wake up everybody” or the most popular Billy Paul’s “Me and Mrs. Jones” from Philly sound!!' FALLEN ANGEL (2000) Credits: Adaesi Ukairo-Vocals (Background) David Coulter-Mandolin, Theremin, Violectra, Bullroar Henry Thomas-BassIan Shaw-Vocals (Background) Kate St.

I AM A WOMAN - THE BEST OF (2000) Tracklist: 01 Never Gonna Give You Up 02 I'm Missing You 03 Me And Mrs Jones 04 Leaves Around The Door 05 Ta Ta Ya Baby 06 Love Me Like You Used To 07 Cry 08 Sweet Little Sister 09 Remember Me 10 Never Gonna Give You Up 11 Living For The Flame 12 Rains Have Failed Again 13 Fragile 14 I Am A Woman Links to download: 'Probably the most underated British female vocalist, Sarah Jane Morris deserves a whole lot more recognition. With a set of vocal chords that wipe the floor with likes of Sade, the woman has soul. Not only that she has the guts to take on covers from the likes of Barry White & Johnny Guitar Johnson and carries the songs beautifully without overdoing the schmaltz. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (2006) CD 1 01 Me And Mrs Jones (Bossa Version) 02 Do It The Hard Way 03 Never Gonna Give You Up 04 Don't Leave Me This Way 05 Ever Gonna Make It 06 Piece Of My Heart (Live In Rome) 07 Sunny 08 I'm Missing You 09 River Man 10 Butterfly 11 Mercy Mercy Me 12 Only To Be With You 13 Mad Woman Blues 14 Move On Up (Live In Montreal) 15 I Don't Wanna Know About Evil (Live In Rome) 16 The Right Track 17 Cowboys Junkies 18 Don't Smoke In Bed CD 2. 01 Get High (Live In Rome) 02 The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Live In Montreal) 03 Fragile (Live In Rome) 04 A Horse Named Janis Joplin 05 Heaven 06 Chelsea Hotel 07 Innocence 08 Tomorrow 09 She's Leaving Home 10 Fields Of Wheat 11 It's Jesus I Love 12 Nothing Comes From Nothing 13 Visions Of You 14 Don't Believe 15 Don't Go To Strangers 16 On Suicide Links to download: 'A double album celebrating the 25th anniversary of sarah jane morris's career. Including tracks taken from her 7 solo albums and collaborations she made with other artists (the single 'don't leave me this way' where she sung in duet with jimmy sommerville', the song 'i'm missing you', english version of a track by cocciante)' 'If anyone understands anthems it's flame-haired, mahogany-voiced Morris.

With the Communards she rebooted Thelma Houston's disco hymn 'Don't Leave Me This Way' to a global number one in 1986, and scored a BBC ban for her lesbian-kissed 'Me and Mrs Jones' three years later. This 2-CD retrospective offers a bossa version of the latter (with Marc Ribot on guitar), but is mainly a showcase of Morris's talents as jazz diva, as she explores Nick Drake, Chet Baker and Brecht with tenderness and grit. Her 'Mad Woman Blues', a tale of tragic cross-dressing, adds a shiver of modern pathos.' 'Intense, passionate and sensual, singer Sarah Jane Morris has built her fame without compromise, thanks to a love for music that comes from her heart and crosses jazz, blues and funk. The critics refer to Sarah's voice as reminding of Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday, but her own description is 'Nina Simone meets Janis Joplin', two of her main inspirations. To celebrate her 25 years of career Irma Records have put together a double CD titled 'After All These Years' that covers her seven solo albums plus a selection of her main collaborations throughout the years. Like the hit 'Don't Leave Me This Way' by The Communards (where Sarah sang together with Jimmy Somerville) which went to no.1 in the European charts in 1986 or the winning song at the 1992 Italian Sanremo Festival (with Riccardo Cocciante) 'I'm Missing You'.

The songs included in this collection are from Sarah's repertoire that goes from pop hits to jazz-soul standards, all revisited with the four octave range of her voice. Intimate acoustic productions (often together with top guitarist and producer Marc Ribot) along with live and studio recordings made with her band of experienced rock and soul musicians. Sarah Jane's first Italian hit, back in 1988, was her extremely personal reinterpretation of Billy Paul's 'Me And Mrs. Jones' and a new, unreleased 'bossa' version of this classic, re-recorded with Marc Ribot, is the opening tune of 'After All These Years'.' Albums Sarah Jane Morris (1989) Heaven (1992) Blue Valentine (1995) Fallen Angel (1998) I Am Woman-The Best Of (2000) August (2001) Love And Pain (2003) Live In Montreal (2004) After All These Years (2CD) (2006) Angels At Christmas (2007). Biography: Sarah Jane Morris (born in England), is a popular jazz, rock and R&B singer and songwriter.

She found fame initially with the Communards ('Sarah Jane Morris is a controversial vocalist who does not care what anyone thinks about her politics, though her music is not usually political itself. Her biggest international hit remains as a guest vocalist on The Communards’ remake of the Thelma Houston classic Don’t Leave Me This Way in late 1986, where she was a duet partner with Jimmy Somerville, who had made a name for himself as the lead singer for Bronski Beat.

Somerville and Richard Coles crated Communards and that song remains the biggest in the career of all involved.),who are best known for their hit Don't Leave Me This Way. She has also recorded as a solo artist, releasing seven albums.

These have enjoyed most popularity in Italy and Greece.Morris also contributed to the opera The Fall of the House of Usher (1991) by Peter Hammill and Judge Smith, singing the part of the chorus. What the press say: ` Soaring, swooping, sensual and sophisticated, this voice is more than a style, it’s a force of nature’ – The Observer `Her voice sounds so deep as to be almost scandalous. More than a great voice, she is several great voices’ – Harpers & Queen `A young, hip, deep voiced version of Sarah Vaughn’ – Q magazine `River deep, mountain high, Sarah Jane Morris has a magnificent, enormous voice’ – Sunday Times `She joins a club of vocalists that admits only the best’ – The Guardian `If you could hear voluptuousness, it would sound like Sarah Jane Morris’ – Evening Standard `Her excellent voice soars and swoops with the agony and ecstasy of the delta, and smokey Chicago clubs’ – Daily Telegraph. Contributors. RULES OF ROCK by guitarist Robert Strain 1) All sax players look the same 2) All drummers are mad, and are always late 3) All singers are vain and precious 4) All keyboard players are slightly eccentric - 'boffins' 5) All bass players are sensible (van driving, arranging gigs, doing the accounts) 6) All guitarists are handsome and brilliant - well, I would say that;-) Actually, all guitarists just want to play guitar (we can't be bothered with all the other nonsense). Well, that and attend to all the women the singer rejects!:) MY OTHER PAGES.

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