What a Difference...

What a Difference...

ASIN: B0009K8L8Y

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About the Artist
This exciting new project was created by producer Rio (Adrien Zerbini) of Bluefish, and Brazilian guitarist Ecio Parreira. They conceived the idea of fusing well-known disco tunes with Bossa Nova whilst working on an album with Brazilian singer Diana Miranda.

Rio was a founder member of Mosquito records in 1993, and has been releasing successful dance records of all types ever since that time. His constant quest for blending genres in new ways has led him to the development of this project.

Ecio Parreira is known as the leader of such bands as Amazonia, a project which takes the traditional Brazilian styles like Baiaio, Maxixe and Batacuda, then pairs it with other musical styles from around the globe such as Reggae, Rock and Funk.

It took the duo two years of hard work, selecting just the right songs, choosing the best tempo and creating the lush arrangements heard on this recording. At this point, they began the search for the singer best suited to lead the music. After advertising widely, and selecting from over 120 singers, they chose three female vocalists: de L'amour, Mars and Chloé. All three singers bring their own personality to the songs:

De L'amour's soulful style and Caribbean heritage combine with consummate sophistication. Her voice embodies the relaxed feel of Eldissa, taking the listener on a journey to a refreshingly positive state of mind.

Chloé was born in New York and is now based in Switzerland. Her vocals on tracks like "Stayin' Alive" provide a bright and sunny flavor with a jazzy tinge.

Mars has a unique and expressive voice, heard to best effect on tracks like, "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" A long-time collaborator with producer Rio since 1993, they have released many recordings together including "Boy I Gotta Have You" and "How Deep is Love?" Mars is currently based in London.

Product Description
Eldissa reimagines the disco classics as bossa nova and acoustic lounge.

The soundtrack for a smooth summer has arrived for fans of Disco, Bossa Nova and all things Lounge. This exciting new project was created by producer Rio (Adrien Zerbini) of Bluefish, and Brazilian guitarist Ecio Parreira.

Eldissa's classy arrangements and the obvious respect for the songs chosen add a deeper level of musicality in a genre where sometimes gimmickry and superficiality are paramount. With "What a Difference…" the subtleties in the music are allowed to seep through without stifling the sense of sheer fun and joie de vivre.

For those who enjoy a relaxed sophistication in their music, without requiring the all-too prevalent, world-weary cynicism that often accompanies it, Eldissa's "What a difference…" provides a refreshing change.

Tracks:

Stayin' Alive
Fame
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Ring My Bell
Funkytown
That Night
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Cherish You
Rock With You
Could It Be Magic
Dream
Fantasy
Go West
What a Difference a Day Made
Sunshine

Album Description

Eldissa reimagines the disco classics as bossa nova and acoustic lounge.

Customer Reviews:

Just terrible........2006-11-13

This is one of the worst cover versions that I have ever listened to. Her style is so kitsch and cheesy, her enunciation catastrophic. Save your money, and skip this CD by any means.

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Ernie Haase music is the Best
Ernie Haase Spectacular

What a Difference a Day Makes
Ernie Haase
Manufacturer: Daywind Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JLKM
Release Date: 1999-01-26

Tracks:

What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
Jesus Is the Reason (Why I Sing)
Is It Any Wonder
Until Everybody Knows
Home at Last
Any Moment Now
On the Other Side of the Mountain
Come to the Cross
On Calvary
That's the Way (Love Is Supposed to Be)
Grave Robber
Love Has a Place for You

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Ernie Haase music is the Best.......2004-03-27

This is one of my favorites. I have all but two of his albums, including his Christmas. It is the most wonderful music i have ever heard. His music is uplifting and always challenges me.

Ernie Haase Spectacular.......2000-06-01

This is Ernie's first solo project after the ending of the group he was in...The Cathedral's. You should get it..I love it! It's wonderful! Can't wait till his next one!

What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin?

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Creative Orchestral Music and the Politics of Time and Place

What Is the Difference Between Stripping & Playing the Violin?
The Masaoka Orchestra
Manufacturer: Victo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000009D41
Release Date: 1998-07-07

Tracks:

24, 000 Years Is Forever
What Is the Difference Between Stripping and Playing the Violin?

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Creative Orchestral Music and the Politics of Time and Place.......2004-08-13

Don't worry about the title. I won't get too learned on ya if just want to know about the music.
I just wanted to point out that some musical events have a specific historical location. We can appreciate the music on its own but we will do so more if we have an inkling of that historical location.
Both the pieces on this CD have that sort of historical specificity. The first piece's title refers to the half-life of plutonium. In Masaoka's notes, she relates that she started thinking about this upon her first trip to visit relatives in Japan when she found out that a cousin of her father's had died of leukemia caused by the bombing of Hiroshima. That, combined with concerns about the fact that there are hundreds of tons of plutonium in the US and Russia, led her to the writing of this piece. This is a live recording of a public performance of this piece.
The second piece has a much great historical specificity. It was written in response to the violent killings of five prostitutes in Masaoka neighborhood in the Mission District of San Francisco. She felt that the public outrage and police response was greatly muted due to the fact that the victims lived outside our ideas of good behavior for women. Thus the title of the piece and the CD. This performance was also recorded live on Market Square.
If you heard this music and then read about its history, I think you would be surprised. The music is not about anger or recrimination. The feeling to me seems to be much more about what we are missing out on by our closed mindedness, about the possibilities of a culture that is truely open.
Masaoka (who is a great great koto player) has created a personal hybrid that incorporates a classical understanding of string instruments, an appreciation of soul jazz, and a deep knowledge of the music of Asian cultures. This is a woman who has released a trio recording of Monk tunes with the lead voice being that of the koto. This isn't a person who is trying to mix her influences into something new- she did that so long ago that she now she is just a unique voice.
The instrumentation on these pieces along with the players goes a long way to give you some idea of how wonderful they are. Since these pieces require a fairly large orchestra and since there is only about fifty percent overlap of the personnel, I am going to limit myself to the personnel for What Is The Difference Between Stripping And Playing the Violin? We start with great, the inestimable India Cooke on violin along with Carla Kilstedt on violin, Vijay Iyer on piano and violin (who knew?) and Mark Izu on the contrabass and sheng (think a complicated and nasal mouth organ). The string section is completed by Liu Qi-Chao on the erhu (think two-stringed violin) and Elliot Kavee on the cello. Liberty Ellman plays the guitar, Trevor Dunn plays electric bass and Anthony Brown is the drummer. Francis Wong plays tenor sax and the underappreciated Hafez Modirzadeh plays tenor and soprano sax as well as piccolo and the ney (persian flute). Toyoji Tomita adds a nice trombone sound to the horn mix. Then there is the contributions on Thomas Day, Patty Liu, Robbie Kauker and DJ Mariko on various electronics.
You can see the possibilities. There are string sections informed by modern classical music, a couple of very nice soul-jazz sections that evolve into brief pungent solos by Tomita and later by Ellman, a wonderful erhu solo, a later solo by the ney or maybe the sheng (I am no expert by any means) and so on. It is episodic, purposely so, to express the nature of street life in the Mission district but it is also wonderfully of a piece and very engaging.
This is a great work and one that deserves to be better known. One of the sad truths of the contemporary arts is that there are a lot more composers and players than there is money to fund their projects. Even when they are successfully funded and recorded they tend to disappear in the great din that is the contemporary music scene.
This is an artist that is worth keeping an ear on. You may not be as please as I am with her orchestral music but by all means check out her other CDs. Besides the trio of Monk recordings, I also highly recommend a Larry Ochs CD released this year on the Intakt label called Fly, Fly, Fly. It features Ochs in trio with Masaoka and Joan Jeanrenaud on the cello. As good a CD as has come out this year.

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What Difference Does It Make
The Smiths
Manufacturer: Rough Trade
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002BHQDG

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Wow!!! Great listening and great shagging

Summer Place
J.D. Cash
Manufacturer: Emn Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005Y99P
Release Date: 2001-06-20

Tracks:

Theme from A Summer Place
What A Difference A Day Makes
Smile & Dream
Call Me
Come To Me Softly
Sit Down & Talk To Me
Pennies From Heaven
Down At Myrtle Beach
Lover's Holiday
Shangri-La

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Wow!!! Great listening and great shagging .......2005-05-14

In the Carolina's there's a popular swing dance called the shag that has not only provided a social pastime for many individuals but has also created a market for what shaggers know as "beach music". In general, most artists that recorded what have become beach music classics didn't intentionally record them knowing that the songs would eventually be labeled as beach music and often recorded many other songs that weren't shaggable. This isn't true for J.D. Cash. Being a modern recording artist and performer well-known by shaggers, he knew he was recording a beach music CD. But wait, there's more! Not only is almost every song on this CD great shagging music, this CD offers fresh interpretations of timeless classics sensitively performed by a singer with an obviously highly trained voice. A beautiful vibrato with great breath control and gobs of individuality backed by some very fine musicians with some brilliant arrangements. OK, is this CD for you? If your looking for Theme From a Summer Place ala Percy Faith with a tripleting piano and strings, maybe not. Like I said, J.D. Cash has some very unique and fresh interpretations here. "Theme From a Summer Place" has an almost a disco-ish sound to it that goes well with the lyrics and fits J.D. Cash's voice and style perfectly. For "What a Difference a Day Makes", forget Dinah Washington's torch-song version or Esther Phillips disco version. Think somewhere in between. It's slightly disco-ish, remember this is dance music, but not all out Studio 54 disco. J.D. Cash's voice just floats over this one. And how about Tony Hatch's "Call Me"? It has just enough of a bossa nova influence to remind the listener of the original, and is another fine complement to J.D. Cash's voice. And "Shangri-la". This is the one that the shaggers loved most when the CD was released. Forget all the versions you've heard by the vocal groups with the fine harmonies, forget all the Vegas-style renditions you've heard of this classic, J.D. Cash brings a senstivity to this song that transports the listener to a place of beauty that can only be imagined. Dance music very rarely gets this good for listening. This is one CD that deserves more attention from the general public now that the newness has worn off among dancers.

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Le Souvenir

Manufacturer: Centrediscs
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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Tracks:

Le Drapeau De Carillon
Le Grillon
Vir' De Bord Mon Ami Pierre
Mon Bouquet
Andalouse
Le Souvenir
Novembre
Oh! What A Difference Since The Hydro Came
Your Eyes Have Told Me
The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Lest You Forget
S'Nice
The Fairy Song
Summer And Winter
The Wings Of Song
I Am Waiting For Thee
Ser
Sonnet
Were I But Crazy For Love's Sake
Non, Maman (Lucas Et Cecile)
Duet (The Widow)
The Happy Birds (Torquil)
J'Ai Pour Maison (Le Fetiche)
Recitative/Duet (Leo The Royal Cadet)

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What a Difference

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000EZ8BX4
Release Date: 2006-05-16

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What a Difference a Day Makes
Ernie Haase
Manufacturer: Daywind
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IB1I
Release Date: 1999-06-11

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What A Difference A Day Makes

ProductGroup: Music
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With Vocal Refrain: What A Difference A Day Made!

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With Vocal Refrain: What A Difference A Day Made!
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Avid [Dead]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000005SJY
Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

Massachusetts - Anita O'Day With Gene Krupa
By The Watermelon Vine - Lindy Lou Roy Felton And The Mills Brothers With Benny Carter
What A Difference A Day Made - Maxine Sullivan With Benny Carter
Shoe Shine Boy - Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey
Blame It On My Last Affair - Helen Humes With Count Basie
Rockin' Chair - Roy Eldridge With Artie Shaw
Will You Still Be Mine? - Connie Haines With Tommy Dorsey
Keep 'Em Flying - Johnny Desmond With Gene Krupa
Blues In The Night - Judy Garland With Bob Crosby
Confessin' The Blues - Walter Brown With Jay McShann
Blues In The Night - Dinah Shore With Rosario Bourdon
How About You? - Frank Sinatra With Tommy Dorsey
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Ivie Anderson With Duke Ellington
I'll Get By - Dick Haymes With Harry James
There's A Small Hotel - Helen Ward With Benny Goodman
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight - Jack Teagarden
A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid - Mildred Bailey With Red Norvo
Sent For You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today) - Johnny Mercer With Benny Goodman
Shout, Sister, Shout Sister - Rosetta Tharpe With Lucky Millinder
St. Louis Blues - Bing Crosby With Duke Ellington
Runnin' A Temperature - Sy Oliver With Jimmy Lunceford
Cherry - Jean Napier With McKinney's Cotton Pickers
Mighty Like The Blues - Hazel Scott With The Sextet Of The Rhythm Club Of London
Indian Love Call - Tony Pastor With Artie Shaw
Who Can I Turn To? - Jo Stafford With Tommy Dorsey

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