A Day Like This
Download links and information about A Day Like This by New York Voices. This album was released in 2007 and it belongs to Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 01:04:00 minutes.
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| Artist: | New York Voices |
| Release date: | 2007 |
| Genre: | Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Duration: | 01:04:00 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Darn That Dream | 3:31 |
| 2. | The World Keeps You Waiting | 6:08 |
| 3. | In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning | 5:30 |
| 4. | On a Clear Day | 5:02 |
| 5. | For All We Know | 4:02 |
| 6. | Love You Madly | 4:20 |
| 7. | As We Live and Breathe | 4:23 |
| 8. | No Moon At All | 4:51 |
| 9. | Chamego (Betty's Bossa) | 4:00 |
| 10. | Noticing the Moment (Moment's Notice) | 4:36 |
| 11. | 11_Don_t_You_Worry_Bout_a_Thing | 4:33 |
| 12. | Stoned Soul Picnic | 3:44 |
| 13. | A Day Like This | 4:49 |
| 14. | Jackie | 4:31 |
Details
[Edit]With ensemble vocal jazz, the danger is always that tight and complex harmony writing will come across as too smooth and too sweet — for some reason, chords that sound sharp and bracing when distributed among reed instruments can sound cloying and overly slick when sung by human voices. The vocal/instrumental quartet New York Voices don't avoid that trap entirely on their latest album (and their first as an ensemble in seven years), but they continue to demonstrate their mastery of the genre with a solid program of new and old songs and innovative arrangements. Their take on "Darn That Dream" is startlingly new (and features a fine bass clarinet solo by Bob Mintzer), and the lyrics that group members added to John Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" work very nicely. Not everyone will agree that the world needed a vocal jazz version of Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic," but the New York Voices' version is really lots of fun and is sure to bring a nostalgic tear to more than one baby-boomer eye. Apart from a couple of saccharine moments on "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," A Day Like This is a pleasure from start to finish. Recommended.