Liza Minnelli - Confessions (2010)

2011-02-17T19:32:04Z

Liza Minnelli - Confessions (2010)


1. Liza Minnelli - Confession (01:45)                  play
2. Liza Minnelli - You Fascinate Me So (03:10)
3. Liza Minnelli - All The Way (04:09)
4. Liza Minnelli - I Hadn't Anyone Till You (02:47)
5. Liza Minnelli - This Heart Of Mine (02:47)
6. Liza Minnelli - I Got Lost In His Arms (03:44)
7. Liza Minnelli - Remind Me (03:05)
8. Liza Minnelli - Close Your Eyes (02:53)             play
9. Liza Minnelli - He's A Tramp (02:33)
10. Liza Minnelli - I Must Have That Man (03:31)
11. Liza Minnelli - On Such A Night As This (03:54)
12. Liza Minnelli - Moments Like This (02:46)
13. Liza Minnelli - If I Had You (04:48)
14. Liza Minnelli - At Last (03:29)

Celebrating sixty years in show business, the iconic Liza Minnelli is about to release the most intimate and revealing recording of her career, Confesssions, available eveEarly in 2010, Liza Minnelli appeared in Sex and the City 2, and placed two songs on its soundtrack: a cover of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” and the Cole Porter classic “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye.” Fans quickly began salivating for the album (announced as Confessions), of standards both old and new, perhaps featuring an Usher cover for the title track or something even more ambitious from a neo-cabaret act like La Roux. The result, however, is an old-school vocal album, featuring 14 standards of the pre-rock variety. Minnelli explained her woodshedding process for Confessions by talking about dinner parties where, after a few hours, guests inevitably congregate around the piano with drinks in hand and end the night singing the songs they all know by heart. She and producer Bruce Roberts achieve this level of intimacy. Her first non-cast, non-live album in 15 years, it features no orchestra, no whirlwind arrangements, and surprisingly, no show-stoppers -- just a small group led by her longtime accompanist, pianist Billy Stritch (and quite a few songs include only Stritch’s accompaniment). The opener is the title track, originally from The Band Wagon, a witty apology for good behavior that fits Minnelli's persona perfectly. ("I never had a taste for wine, now isn't that a sin?/I never had a taste for wine, for wine can't compare with gin.") "You Fascinate Me So" and "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" are taken with the small group, a sympathetic band that accentuates the intended warmth. Throughout, Minnelli ably deflates the usual criticisms of an aging voice, turning her occasional weaknesses into interpretive strengths, smiling her way through the frailties. ---John Bush, AllMusic Review

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Liza Minnelli – Gently (1996)

2013-09-02T15:56:42Z

Liza Minnelli – Gently (1996)


1. Chances Are
2. You Stepped Out of a Dream
3. Embraceable You
4. Close Your Eyes
5. Some Cats Know
6. Lost in You
7. I Got Lost in His Arms
8. It Had to Be You
9. Never Let Me Go
10. Does He Love You?
11. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Musicians:
Liza Minnelli, Johnny Mathis, Donna Summer (vocals); 
Ray Ellis (conductor); Roger Kellaway (conductor, piano); 
Jack Cavari (acoustic guitar); 
Timothy May, Grant Geissman, Michael Landau (guitar); 
John Tropea (electric guitar); 
Nino Tempo, Gary Foster (saxophone); 
Chuck Findley, Randy Brecker (trumpet); 
Billy Stritch (piano, background vocals); 
Pete Jolly, Mike Renzi, Herbie Hancock (piano); 
Robbie Buchanan (keyboards); 
Emil Richards, Terry Gibbs (vibraphone); 
Dave Stone, Chuck Berghofer, Jim Hughart, Robert Magnusson, Will Lee, David Finck, Neil Stubenhaus (bass); 
Albie Berk, Bill La Vorgna, John Guerin, John Robinson (drums); 
Lenny Castro (congas, percussion, tambourine); 
Paulinho DaCosta (congas, percussion); 
Melissa Manchester, Brenda Russell, Bruce Roberts, Brooks Arthur (background vocals).

If anyone is entitled to cash in on the renewed renaissance of classic pop (not to mention space-age bachelor pad) music, it's Liza Minnelli, who not only has a pedigree to match the likes of Natalie Cole, but has also been at it longer. At 50, Minnelli no longer has to choose between her heritage and her generation, and the assurance with which she tackles material like George and Ira Gershwin's "Embraceable You" and Irving Berlin's "I Got Lost in His Arms" is striking. But she was equally at home with such rock-era work as "Chances Are" (on which she's accompanied by Johnny Mathis, who made it a hit) and Leiber & Stoller's "Some Cats Know" (which was bringing down the house on Broadway in Smokey Joe's Cafe at the time of the album's release). If this album does not live up to its title or to Minnelli's liner notes description ("sentimental, romantic and sometimes foolish" songs sung "hopefully, tenderly, and most of all...gently"), that's only to say that among the many favorable things you could say about the material and Minnelli's performance of it, "gentle" is not one of them. The singer's intensity is always tempered with warmth, her power checked by careful attention to details of lyric meaning and the nuances of feeling available through her phrasing. But Liza Minnelli just isn't a gentle singer. Maybe she should have stuck with the title scrawled on the back of the CD booklet: "The Makeout Album." ---William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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