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The combination of a wonderful singer like June Tabor, tasteful producer Joe Boyd and material courtesy of old-style song writers ranging from Sammy Cahn, Cole Porter and the Gershwins to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Alas, the result is more like a wet weekend. Doubtless the languid vocal approach and Spartan piano arrangements (by accompanist Huw Warren) are intended to be suggestive of the wee small hours, but the mood and pace seldom rise above the funereal, while June Tabor herself sounds as if she is just going through the motions: "Can you dig it?" she
The combination of a wonderful singer like June Tabor, tasteful producer Joe Boyd and material courtesy of old-style song writers ranging from Sammy Cahn, Cole Porter and the Gershwins to Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Alas, the result is more like a wet weekend. Doubtless the languid vocal approach and Spartan piano arrangements (by accompanist Huw Warren) are intended to be suggestive of the wee small hours, but the mood and pace seldom rise above the funereal, while June Tabor herself sounds as if she is just going through the motions: "Can you dig it?" she intones disinterestedly on Charles Mingus's "Pork Pie Hat", Lester Young is playing what he's feeling--as if she were popping round the corner for a tin of beans. A superbly world-weary "You Don't Know What Love Is" briefly injects some feeling to show what might have been, and some of the other tracks do pass muster in small doses, but the whole simply fails to hold the interest and, after the freshness, colour and invention of last year's triumphal return with Aquaba, is doubly disappointing. --Ian Cranna
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Manufacturer: Hannibal
Release date: 1 July 1991
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0031257134729 UPC: 031257134729
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