Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting...

Posted by mr.bear (A) on February 4, 2017 at 19:25:12

...Chaka Khan singing jazz standards !?!? "Echoes Of An Era" [Elektra E1-60021, 1982] First time I've played this. She has a nice voice but she's trying far too hard and the result is unlistenable. Without the instrumental breaks I'd have frisbeed it off the balcony of the Bearcave. The 'music biznis' demons at Elektra must have told her she had one shot at singing jazz or they'd let her slip under the waves of the "new" black-music direction forming around 1984-85: heavy synthesizers, hip-hop influences, etc. that would wipe her soulful Philadelphia sound off the map (after a couple last gasps...) This album doesn't even have her lovely face on the cover and an appearance and name that sounds like it might be a Smithsonian recording of piano-rolls... What a waste of talent. Glad I got the "Super Saver" and didn't pay "List Price."

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Topic - Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting... - mr.bear 19:25:12 02/4/17 (7)

RE: Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting... - slippers... 16:11:49 02/6/17 (0)

RE: Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting... - Lew 07:55:25 02/6/17 (0)

Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White... - rrsands 06:18:03 02/6/17 (0)

RE: Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting... - radiodaddy 21:40:18 02/5/17 (0)

"Unlistenable"? Hardly. Damn nice album IMO, including Chaka's singing. nt - Rick W 13:30:40 02/5/17 (0)

RE: Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting... - Travis 07:31:19 02/5/17 (1)

Thanks... - Lew 07:57:06 02/6/17 (0)

Spinnin' - Hubbard/Corea/Clarke/White fronting...

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