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Barbara Hendricks
Barbara Sings the Blues
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Lady sings the blues, song - Barbara Hendricks, Holiday, Billie
2. Tell Me More and More (And Then Some), song - Barbara Hendricks, Jones, Richard
3. Trouble in Mind - Barbara Hendricks, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
4. Don't explain - Barbara Hendricks, Charles, Jacques
5. Mon homme (My Man), song - Barbara Hendricks, Henry, John [Darkes
6. You've Been a Good Old Wagon, song - Barbara Hendricks, Herzog, Arthur Jr.
7. God Bless the Child - Barbara Hendricks, Woods, Harry M.
8. What a Little Moonlight Can Do, song [Instrumental] - Barbara Hendricks, Holiday, Billie
9. Billie's Blues, song - Barbara Hendricks, Bigard, Albany "Bar
10. Mood Indigo - Barbara Hendricks, Austin, Lovie [1]
11. Downhearted Blues, song - Barbara Hendricks, Algotsson, Mathias
12. Allhelgonablues, song [Instrumental] - Barbara Hendricks, Allan, Lewis
13. Strange Fruit, song [Instrumental]

CD Details

All Artists: Barbara Hendricks
Title: Barbara Sings the Blues
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: ARTE VERUM
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 11/11/2008
Album Type: Enhanced
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Swing Jazz, Marches, Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 5425019971052

Synopsis

Album Description

Barbara Hendricks, considered to be one of the greatest classical music interpreters of our time, has left her unique and indelible mark on all that she has sung. On this disc, she explores the blues. Through famous tunes by Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and Duke Ellington,this disc charms and surprises with its originality. First blues album and third "non-classical" album, after Gershwin and Ellington, which were both top sellers. Features the Grammy Award-winning Magnus Lindgren Quartet.

CD Reviews

Barbara is perfect as ever

Romeu França | sao paulo, sao paulo Brazil | 01/18/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is not the first time that Miss Hendricks goes in this kind of repertoire.Many years ago with the Labeque sisters she gave us a marvelous Gershwin (she did another Gershwin years later), then came the Spirituals (no words) and the master piece Duke Ellington, a tribute. Now she (re)visits Billie Holiday's songs which is a very difficult task, amost a quest a would say. But Hendricks is not somebody just singing or showing technic, doing show-off and those sort of things.For her, singing is a serious matter and she gives her voice and soul to that. She Knows what she is doing and why. Every song is a delivery, a tribute to Billie. Arrengements are perfect as always. It seems this is one ofthe major preocupations of Miss Hendricks. The result is wondeful music, proving that you can do more than operatic stuff. If you are really good, you can do everything.And Miss Hendricks is one of them. By the way, her Spanish Songs, are fantastic too. Last but not least, I almost forgot her album on the Diney's songs, another must"