Last Tango in Rio

Artist: Gabriela Anders
Label: Narada
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724386419125
EAN: 0724386419125
ASIN: B0002Y4T8S

Release Date: 2004-10-05

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Tracks:

You Go To My Head
Abracadabra
Love Is Here To Stay
God Bless The Child
Embrace Me
The Buenos Aires Mix
Body And Soul
All Your Love
Meant To Be
'Til The End Of Time

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Customer Reviews:

The Claudine Longet of Bossa Jazz Has Arrived!.......2006-09-27

Anders'first album was a DNA match for Sade, but much more for the songs, band and arrangements than for her just barely on-key voice. I must give props for taste here, as the the players on this and the last Anders CDs are first-rate, and they groove wonderfully. However, if Gabriella Anders didn't look like she does (she's gorgeous!), she'd be playing a Holiday Inn in Yonkers. I gave the CD 3 stars, 1 for Anders and 5 for her Way-Out-Of-Her-League band.

The album Norah Jones can only dream of making...........2005-06-27

The very attractive album is the first I have ever heard from Gabriela Anders. It makes for very enjoyable listening on two levels - quietly and at a much louder volume.

Ms Anders has a very pleasant Jazz styled voice and her singing is relentlessly sensuous! (whatever THAT means! ;-))
Gabriela Anders' instrumental ensemble adopts a very suave and low key Latin approach. There is some very tasteful acoustic guitar, keyboard and accordion playing on this album. Some nice random ambient elements also keep the instrumental aspect of this album agreeably and tastefully "left of centre".

Needless to say, this the sort of thing that Robot-of-Romance, Norah Jones, was probably trying to do on her hapless first album. Gabriela Anders is the real thing and a 'class act' unlike her aforementioned peer. Last Tango in Rio is ideal late night listening - with a glass of wine, candle light and someone you fancy!

Less smooth jazz, more tango ... works for me!.......2005-03-13

Gabriela boldly steps away from the more smoooth-jazz style that marked her 1998 WANTING CD. While the earlier album is unlikely to appeal to those who are looking for more progressive sounds (e.g., contemporary Brazilian, acid/jazz groove, etc.). LAST TANGO IN RIO gives Anders' softly emotive voice a more intriguing context. One could argue whether or not she was previously miscast as a smooth jazz singer, but in my opinion if she wants to distinguish herself as an artist, it is going to be via a musical approach such as what is heard here. The presence of such instruments as the bandoneon may win over fans of the likes of contemporary tango group GOTAN PROJECT, while the mixture of acoustic and electric instrumentation -- even with subtle electronica effects at times -- bridges the past with the present effectively. Throughout, RIO has a considerably more homegrown feel than the studio-polished WANTING.

In reading previous reviews I noticed one reviewer who first heard of this album in the L.A. TIMES as I did, but was not happy with the results. While I'm a satisfied customer, this disc may not be for those who are looking for a more traditional jazz vocal approach. Granted, there is a perhaps-confusing "FILE UNDER: JAZZ" reminder on the back cover. Yet Anders' style is much more in line with the current generation of Brazilian singers (Bebel Gilberto, etc.) than with most so-called jazz singers. RIO is nothing like Diana Krall's albums of pop standards, for one. While Anders does interpret a number of pop classics that jazz vocalists have frequently turned to ("Love Is Here To Stay," "Body And Soul"), they are reconfigured to fit Anders' style. The difference is particularly striking on "God Bless The Child," which in my opinion is one of the album's highlights but may be too big of a change for some. To each their own, and in my case RIO is much more in line with what I want to hear than the other Anders album I mentioned.

Unratable.......2005-01-06

Please don't take my 3 stars as an indication that this album is, in my estimation, good but not very good or excellent. Take it as I simply don't know how to rate it, and Amazon.com requires a rating, so middle of the pack it is out of compromise.

Gabriela Anders looks like the kind of girl I lusted after in algebra class, when I was 15 years old. She also sounds like that girl. Her voice is very breathy, a la Marilyn Monroe. Is it sexy and alluring, or does it rob her of any significant range and ability to interpret?

The arrangements are heavy on the bandolera, with acoustic guitar, much Brazilian percussion and a driving samba beat. They all sound "cool and groovy."

But is that appropriate, with the breathy voice, for such torch songs as "Body and Soul", "You Go to my Head", or in particular, "God Bless the Child"? Some would say no. Others would say, "Hey, what's jazz about but putting old wine in new bottles? So the interpretation doesn't sound like Billie or Carmen; so what?"

So, I'm flummoxed. I could tell you which side of the coin I fall on, if you really want to know. But you, the consumer, want to know what the album's all about, and don't care about my attempts to sound like Nat Hentoff or Whitney Balliett, right? So, as objectively as I can say so, this is what it is; buy it if you like this on this description, and don't if you don't. RC

Unique Treat.......2004-12-30

The guy who tossed this CD gave himself away when he mentioned that this is not what he expects from a jazz artist. Yes, Ms. Anders does interpret things very differently. But who says uniqueness is the precursor of mediocrity? If inventors didn't invent, we'd still be in the stone age. Tell Louis Armstrong that because he was different, he should have just packed it in.

Gabriella's unique approach to a song is tasteful, enveloping, and, yes, at times challenging. But the right kind of "different" she definitely is, from this reviewers perspective.

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