Christine Rosholt – Detour Ahead
Sound: B Music:
B
With a really fine singing voice, Christine Rosholt goes
for it on some Jazz classics with her new album, Detour Ahead. The 2006 release has Rosholt and four very
talented musicians tackle the following:
- East
Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)
- Early Autumn
- It's
De-Lovely
- Chega
De Saudade (No More Blues)
- Sometime
Ago
- Detour
Ahead
- You
And The Night And The Music
- Daydream
- From
This Moment On
- Out Of This World
- Honeysuckle Rose
- I Cover The Waterfront
- Bye Bye Blackbird
All are remarkable in that they do not drag on, do the
same thing everyone else who has covered them has done (i.e., predictable
by-the-numbers cover cuts) and yet they all stay original and traditional. How?
Rosholt has an advanced vocal phrasing capacity that has her singing in,
around and all over the sprightly arrangements, actually bringing new life to
some truly great works. Tracks 3 &
9 are Cole Porter classics, the kind that tend to particularly get butchered,
but her vocals manage to show a real love of the works and give them a new life
as if she was one of the first to ever sing them.
That is not easy, while the overrated Honeysuckle Rose
and of-covered Bye Bye Blackbird also get top rate treatment. Between the singing, playing, arranging,
recording, engineering and producing, this is an amazing breakthrough Jazz work
and could put Miss Rosholt and company in a new league with Jazz lovers who are
lucky enough to get this CD. Don’t miss
it.
The PCM 2.0 16bit/44.1kHz Stereo is a pleasure to play
back, from Rosholt’s vivid vocals to the musicians who somehow mange to keep up
with her. The Digipak CD case has an
extra foldout piece with more information than you usually get with such packaging,
which is a nice surprise. However, you
should visit www.christinerosholt.com
for more information.
- Nicholas Sheffo
