When Love Goes Wrong

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Author: Various Artists

Release Date: 03-02-2003

Details: Amazon.ca If Coltrane for Lovers and Miles Davis’s Love Songs seem indicative of jazz’s only comments on amorous passion, then When Love Goes Wrong is a doleful, refreshing wake-up call. The compilation, which focuses exclusively on vocal cuts, starts with the packaging–a faux-1950s jilted-love-turned-to-crime scene–and continues with searing, lost-love pathos from those who knew it intimately. There’s late-period Billie Holiday–all husked-out as she sings « Broken Hearted Blues »–and pristine 1964 Chet Baker on « Born to Be Blue » to open the set. And the stars keep coming out: Johnny Hartman, also from 1964; Ella Fitzgerald pining elegantly from the The Irving Berlin Songbooks in 1958; and the Velvet Fog himself, Mel Torme, darkly crooning with Marty Paich on the uncharacteristically noirish « Gloomy Sunday. » Oddly, this cleaved-heart tour is ultimately romantic–gimmicky theme aside–full of lavishly emotive lyrical performances and scything instrumental passages that reach justly for those vocal emotions. Love might be right, and this would still be a grand listen. –Andrew Bartlett Product Description Various

UPC: 044006532820

EAN: 0044006532820

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood