No Looking Back [Live]

1. Intro

2. Chicago/San Antonio

3. Who's to Blame

4. Fix It With Tape

5. My Blonde, Blue Eyed Aunt

6. Beer Commercials

7. Late 30's

8. Guys, Beers, & Chicks

9. Why, What Happened?

10. Rap Music/My Music

11. Latinas on PMS

12. Michael Jackson/Black Movies

13. Teen Drinking/Denny's/Coming Home

14. Steel Toe Chancia

15. It's Called Discipline

16. Edward J. Olmos Movies

17. Spanglish

18. Chinese People/Food

No Looking Back,Rudy Moreno,Uproar,Pop,Spoken / Comedy / Radio Shows

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Average customer rating: English is an asset and a drawback You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally! I love Carmen!

Carmen (Sung in English) Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mozart: The Magic Flute The Barber of Seville / B. Ford, D. Jones, A. Opie; G. Bellini [in English] Verdi: La Traviata Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Mozart - Don Giovanni / Garry Magee · Cullagh · Banks · Plazas · Shore · Tierny · PO · David Parry ASIN: B00007JGRN Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

1. Prelude
2. In The Plaza
3. Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
4. Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
5. Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
6. Off With You Old Soldier Boys
7. Corporal! Sir!
8. We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
9. Ah, Just Look!
10. But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
11. Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
12. Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
13. The Cheek Of It!
14. Give Me News Of My Mother!
15. Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
16. I See My Mother's Face!
17. Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
18. Come And Help
19. So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
20. Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
21. Where Are You Taking Me?
22. There's An Old Bar In The City
23. Careful - It's Lieutenant!
24. Entr'acte
25. From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
26. Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
27. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
28. Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
29. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
30. You're Most Kind
31. We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
32. Toreador, Be Ready!
33. At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
34. There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
35. Being In Love Is Not A Reason

Tracks:

1. To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
2. La La La La La La La La...
3. Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
4. That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
5. No, It's Not Love At All!
6. Hello! Carmen!
7. Lieutenant Fair, It's True
8. The Sky Above The Open Road
9. Entr'acte
10. Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
11. Right! Let's Stop For A While
12. Shuffle! Cut Them!
13. In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
14. You're Back!
15. As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
16. Is This The Place?
17. I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
18. It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
19. Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
20. She Had A Lover Here
21. Hola! Hola! Jose!
22. You Should Take Care, Carmen
23. Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
24. Entr'acte
25. A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
26. Here They Come! Here They Come!
27. If You Love Me, Carmen
28. It's You! It's Me!
29. Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

A pleasure, then, for the Carmen naive or a novelty for the Carmen-acquainted. I nearly wrote Carmen-weary - but I don't think it's possible.

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak Dvorak Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" An Introduction to Schubert's Piano Quintet "Trout" Classics Explained: Rite of Spring ASIN: B000069HGK Release Date: 2002-09-17

Average customer rating: If you are looking for quiet jazz, Laverne delivers. Another Hidden Audiophile Gem

No Looking Back Manufacturer: Chesky Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Trumpet | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Day Dreamin' Blues in the City ASIN: B000003GFY Release Date: 1994-06-23

Tracks:

1. The Song Is You
2. I Cover The Waterfront
3. Sunday In New York
4. Speak Low
5. It's Alright With Me
6. Easy To Love
7. Isn't It A Pity
8. Make Me Rainbows
9. Ballad Medley: Someone To Watch Over Me/Why Shouldn't I?/Sophisticated Lady
10. Come Fly With Me

Customer Reviews:

If you are looking for quiet jazz, Laverne delivers........2007-07-02

(4.5 stars) I love this CD for its quiet moodiness, and especially for Laverne Butler's careful attention to the lyrics. Though this is her first single, she has much experience as part of a group, heading a trio and starring with the Widespread Jazz Band for many years. Her willingness to share the spotlight shows here, as all of her accompanists have solos as terrific as her own on nearly every song. Butler is no Sarah Vaughan, nor should she be. Her voice is, instead, softer, lighter, and absolutely clear, a characteristic which makes it possible for her, with perfect diction, to sing at a quick pace on some songs ("Alright With Me," for example), playing with the timing and rhythm at the same time, and hitting every note, straight-on.

Singing many standards, most of them slow, she and her "team" create a very relaxing (and relaxed) sound for quiet moments. In "I Cover the Waterfront," she made me really listen to the lyrics, and the quiet piano accompaniment and the mournful tenor sax add to the mood of a woman looking for a lost love. "Sunday in New York," more upbeat and swingy, shows the lightness of her voice, enhanced by the sax of Joe Henderson, trumpet of Jon Faddis, and piano of arranger Mike Renzi. "Speak Low" adds a quiet acoustic guitar to the accompaniment, and "Alright with Me" begins almost a capella, then adds a bass, as Butler creates a mood and the group then loosens up and plays with melodic variations and timing.

Butler almost whispers on some tracks--"Isn't it a Pity" and the end of "Sunday in New York," for example--and her "Ballad Medley," with flawless bridges between the songs, is one of the great tracks for soft, relaxed jazz. A lovely CD made to showcase Butler's talent as a long-time creator of quiet moods, this is the perfect antidote to some of the screeching that sometimes passes for music. n Mary Whipple

Another Hidden Audiophile Gem.......2004-10-28

This is one of my favorite vocal jazz CDs. It is, subjectively, the best-recorded female voice recording I own - in terms of clarity and body. I have owned it for over 10 years, and yet each time I cue it up, Laverne delivers. And I smile. The essence of Laverne's beautiful voice is captured without making her sound like she stands fifteen feet tall! The selection (of mostly standards) is very well balanced between ballads and uptempo tunes. On all but the worst sound system, this CD will delight. On a good system, Laverne will entertain you.

Average customer rating: He done better Mean and...sophisticated.

No Looking Back Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown Manufacturer: Alligator Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Texas Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Alligator Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000000A06 Release Date: 1992-01-14

Tracks:

1. Better Off With The Blues
2. Digging New Ground
3. Dope
4. My Own Prison
5. Stop Time
6. C Jam Blues
7. Straighten Up
8. The Peeper
9. Alligator Eating Dog
10. I Will Be Your Friend
11. We're Outta Here

Amazon.com

While not as incisive or witty as some of Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's other recordings, No Looking Back contains the work of a mature artist, from the introspective lyrics of "Better Off with the Blues" and "My Own Prison" to the swinging fiddle on "Stop Time." Still, there's not quite enough of what makes Brown what he is; that is, one of the finest genre-bending players of our time. On the other hand, the material's solid, and the jazz jams of "Digging New Ground" and "C-Jam Blues" show that Brown's as at home in the jazz realm as in the blues. The only real misstep here is the pop duet "I Will Be Your Friend" with Michelle Shocked, which can only be described as odd. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

He done better.......2002-08-17

So, there are some real gems on this one: "Better Off With The Blues", "Alligator-Eatin Dog", and "My Own Prison". But there just isn't the lyrical and musical kick that Gatemouth has produced in other albulms. The duet is odd. There's plenty of different styles here, if you're new to Gate, but you might be a little more satsfied with "American Music, Texas Style".

Mean and...sophisticated........2000-02-24

The late great Stevie Ray Vaughan had many jazz hints in his output,however,Clarence'Gatemouth'Brown takes all that to an extreme-a good one-delivering a powerful and authoritative fusion album,bound to please not only those stepped in the Texas blues tradition,but also those more inclined toward jazz and funk.His 1992 album is simply a must!

Average customer rating: Wonderful interpretation

Random Walks : Piano Music of David Kraehenbuehl Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004TYR1 Release Date: 2000-06-01

Tracks:

1. Diptych
2. Toccate per Cembalo
3. A Formal Triad
4. Toccata Sopra B-A-C-H: Tombeau de Bach
5. Random Walks: Studies in Controlled Randomness
6. Looking Back: Twelve Images from My Past

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful interpretation.......2002-03-26

RANDOM WALKS is a beautiful collection of contemporary piano music - for children and adults.

Average customer rating: We love this guy........... I hope this guy is around for a long time! He reminds me of home We love when he comes to town!! One of the funniest comics since Richard Pryor

No Looking Back Rudy Moreno Manufacturer: Uproar ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Comedy & Spoken Word | Miscellaneous | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000G3V7 Release Date: 1998-10-19

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Chicago/San Antonio
3. Who's To Blame
4. Fix It With Tape
5. My Blonde, Blue Eyed Aunt
6. Beer Commercials
7. Late 30's
8. Guys, Beers, & Ghicks
9. Why, What Happened?
10. Rap Music/ My Music
11. Latinas On PMS
12. Michael Jackson/ Black Movies
13. Teen Drinking/ Denny's/ Coming Home
14. Steel Toe Chancia
15. It's Called Discipline
16. Edward J. Olmos Movies
17. Spanglish
18. Chinese People/ Food

Customer Reviews:

We love this guy..................1999-06-01

My husband and I are Natives Southern Californians and we never heard of Rudy Moreno, but we saw him at a comedy show at 4th and B a local nightclub and bought his CD. We have not stopped playing it, we play it for our friends and families and we really enjoy his TRUE to life stories, they are really funny and we related to everything, from drinking at 18 to getting married and having kids.He reminds me of Bill Cosby in his tales.I'm 46 and I find his humor not only funny to me, but my kids ages 19 and 22 respectively love him as well.

I hope this guy is around for a long time!.......1999-06-01

I have never really been familiar with the Latino culture, I have a buddy that turned me on to this guy Rudy Moreno and I'll be damned if I wasn't laughing myself to death, if all that he says is true, then I would love to learn more of the latin culture, this boy brings it home and sounds like he's having a ball! Que Viva Rudy Moreno!

He reminds me of home.......1999-05-24

What a down to earth and refreshing feeling I got when I heard this CD. It took me back to my mom's house , and I could smell the smells he talks about and I felt entertained as well.I have followed his career and he has really polished and perfected his act. A true professional, and funny to everyone, I have had to lend this CD over and over. You have to get this Cd, this comedian is worth the listen, and we are proud of him!

We love when he comes to town!!.......1999-05-24

We will make an evening to go see Rudy at our local club!We gather 20 or so people and go to check him out, after yu hear this CD, you are going to want to see him live, heis probably one of the funniest comedians this decade! Continued Success to Rudy and we're waiting for the next CD.

One of the funniest comics since Richard Pryor.......1999-05-24

This guy takes you into his world of characters and the neighborhood he grew up in. I could actually picture everything he was saying. I laughed so much that my cheeks seemed like they were gonna stay with a permanent smile.Great job!

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No Parade Travis Allison Band Manufacturer: Bridging Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006NI3BO Release Date: 2004-11-09

Tracks:

1. Next Life
2. Enough
3. B to A
4. Sunday's Song
5. You Got Me
6. Meridio Divine
7. Gamblin' Man
8. Becky & Howard
9. One More Shot
10. Walk On
11. Just a Kiss
12. Welcome In
13. The Same Things
14. Early Morning Nights
15. Shores of Time

Album Description

Recorded in Charleston, SC by Jeff Leonard, Jr. and Jordan Herschaft with Pete Beck, Todd Verdin, Patick Norris, Ben Marks, KB Reidenbach, Jeff Narkiewicz and Jimmy Mack. Ranges from full band production to stripped down acoustic guitar and vocal tracks.

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Atraccion Fatal ****************TRACK LISTINGS**************** , and Intro / Take Me Hi / I Did It Again / I Bought It / Danger / It Wasn't Me / What You Going To Do / No Me Sonrojo / I Remember / Entre Tu Y Yo / Looking Back / Ohhh Yea / I Can't Believe It / Early Morning / Every Night / Boring Men / Head's Cow ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000R2DRRE

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No Looking Back Laverne Butler Manufacturer: Chesky Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003GHC Release Date: 1994-01-17

Tracks:

1. The Song Is You
2. I Cover The Waterfront
3. Sunday In New York
4. Speak Low
5. It's Alright With Me
6. Easy To Love
7. Isn't It A Pity
8. Make Me Rainbows
9. Ballad Medley
10. Come Fly With Me

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Ain't No Lookin' Back ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000H5B37W

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