Havana Midnight

Havana Midnight

Havana Midnight

Editorial Reviews
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Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who gives Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that, on the surface, ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

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Havana Midnight
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?
  • playing to savor, lyrics to ponder
  • Soft & Warm
  • Hooked again
  • Havana Midnight
 Havana Midnight
Bob Neuwirth
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005CCAO
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

  1. Havana Midnight
  2. The First Time
  3. Dead Man's Clothes
  4. Miracles/Milagros
  5. Don Quixote
  6. The Call
  7. Look Up
  8. Havana Farewell
  9. Aracely's Natias

Amazon.com

Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who gives Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that, on the surface, ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?.......2002-10-31

What a welcome piece of music is Havana Midnight. Bob Neuwirth's lyrics are clear and without excess. His vocals are intimate and evocative, some a little wistful. We can feel his arm around our shoulder as he tells his story. That Neuwrith's songs recline on Jose Maria Vitier's music is an unexected delight blending exoctic Latin melodies with some of this classic American artist's best work.
Never has there been a more welcome contrast to the uninvited, assualt that has become today's music. I want more.

5 out of 5 stars playing to savor, lyrics to ponder.......2001-08-16

previous reviewer maureen o'connell mentions that once one acquires a taste for bob neuwirth's voice, one is hooked, but she doesn't add that it's not so hard a taste to acquire--his voice has a comfortable, lived-in quality that's not only appealing but conveys a breadth of experience which adds to your own experience of the CD. the superb backing instrumentals do carry you off to the tropics, but that voice and the sometimes poignant, sometimes funny lyrics bring you back to reality with a bracing, though perhaps slightly melancholy feeling. tops!

5 out of 5 stars Soft & Warm.......2001-07-28

This CD takes you to a warm, sultry night in the tropics. You can practically hear the soft waves lap the beach. You are able to feel warm, wet tradewinds against your damp skin. You breathe deeper, an enveloping calm seeps into your blood, and you think of all the love (both past and present) in your life.

5 out of 5 stars Hooked again.......2001-07-26

Here's Bob again, with his clever internal rhymes, his longings expressed in poetry, and all the artful lyrics any romantic needs to remember exactly what it felt like to love willfully and have things sometimes end sadly beautiful. "Havana Midnight" and "Havana Farewell" took me back to the Malecon, and are perfect bookend cuts to an effort that is Cuban in it's soul, if not in all it's imagery. From the accessible cultural references in Don Quixoye to the songs from the spiritual heart (and experience) of a well-traveled vagabond, Bob Neuwirth once again shows why he's cognescenti-adored while remaining fairly obscure. Acquire a taste for his voice and you're hooked.

4 out of 5 stars Havana Midnight.......2000-11-02

While Bob Neuwirth's "Havana Midnight" doesn't exactly get you on your feet dancing like the title would suggest, it does evoke a melancholy that fits a man caught in time and place, perhaps even Havana. I could actually envision him lamenting events and opportunities not taken while surrounded by muscians that have "been there". The superb production and collaboration with Jose Maria Vitier keep this one in my "play often" stack. It works for me.
Havana Midnight
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?
  • playing to savor, lyrics to ponder
  • Soft & Warm
  • Hooked again
  • Havana Midnight
 Havana Midnight
Bob Neuwirth
Manufacturer: Diesel Motor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
FolkFolk | Imports | Stores | Music
RockRock | Imports | Stores | Music
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  1. Bob Neuwirth
  2. Look Up
  3. 99 Monkeys
  4. 99 Monkeys
  5. West

ASIN: B000040OIU
Release Date: 2000-07-11

Tracks:

  1. Havana Midnight
  2. The First Time
  3. Dead Man's Clothes
  4. Miracles/Milagros
  5. Don Quixote
  6. The Call
  7. Look Up
  8. Havana Farewell
  9. Aracely's Natias

Amazon.com

Bob Neuwirth's long and fitful career is built around ragged but soulful folk-based recordings that are marked by an ingrained extemporaneous spirit. Neuwirth, after all, is a dyed-in-the-wool troubadour who's more interested in capturing the moment than artfully shaping his songs. Which makes Havana Midnight so unexpected and rewarding. Here the roughhewn folkie finds himself keeping company with Cuban composer-arranger Jose Maria Vitier, who lends Neuwirth's wistful, weary tunes a subtly ornate stateliness and rhythmic underpinning. The beauty of Havana Midnight is that Neuwirth's music is given a grace and elegance that on the surface ought to be constricting, but instead is entirely liberating. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Voice, Beauty, Vision -- Mas Por Favor?.......2002-10-31

What a welcome piece of music is Havana Midnight. Bob Neuwirth's lyrics are clear and without excess. His vocals are intimate and evocative, some a little wistful. We can feel his arm around our shoulder as he tells his story. That Neuwrith's songs recline on Jose Maria Vitier's music is an unexected delight blending exoctic Latin melodies with some of this classic American artist's best work.
Never has there been a more welcome contrast to the uninvited, assualt that has become today's music. I want more.

5 out of 5 stars playing to savor, lyrics to ponder.......2001-08-16

previous reviewer maureen o'connell mentions that once one acquires a taste for bob neuwirth's voice, one is hooked, but she doesn't add that it's not so hard a taste to acquire--his voice has a comfortable, lived-in quality that's not only appealing but conveys a breadth of experience which adds to your own experience of the CD. the superb backing instrumentals do carry you off to the tropics, but that voice and the sometimes poignant, sometimes funny lyrics bring you back to reality with a bracing, though perhaps slightly melancholy feeling. tops!

5 out of 5 stars Soft & Warm.......2001-07-28

This CD takes you to a warm, sultry night in the tropics. You can practically hear the soft waves lap the beach. You are able to feel warm, wet tradewinds against your damp skin. You breathe deeper, an enveloping calm seeps into your blood, and you think of all the love (both past and present) in your life.

5 out of 5 stars Hooked again.......2001-07-26

Here's Bob again, with his clever internal rhymes, his longings expressed in poetry, and all the artful lyrics any romantic needs to remember exactly what it felt like to love willfully and have things sometimes end sadly beautiful. "Havana Midnight" and "Havana Farewell" took me back to the Malecon, and are perfect bookend cuts to an effort that is Cuban in it's soul, if not in all it's imagery. From the accessible cultural references in Don Quixoye to the songs from the spiritual heart (and experience) of a well-traveled vagabond, Bob Neuwirth once again shows why he's cognescenti-adored while remaining fairly obscure. Acquire a taste for his voice and you're hooked.

4 out of 5 stars Havana Midnight.......2000-11-02

While Bob Neuwirth's "Havana Midnight" doesn't exactly get you on your feet dancing like the title would suggest, it does evoke a melancholy that fits a man caught in time and place, perhaps even Havana. I could actually envision him lamenting events and opportunities not taken while surrounded by muscians that have "been there". The superb production and collaboration with Jose Maria Vitier keep this one in my "play often" stack. It works for me.
Havana Midnight
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Havana Midnight
    Bob Neuwirth
    Manufacturer: Dreamsville
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music
    Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00005F3GC
    Release Date: 1999-12-21

    Tracks:

    1. Havana Midnight
    2. First Time
    3. Dead Man's Clothes
    4. Miracles/Milagros
    5. Dom Quixote
    6. Call
    7. Look Up
    8. Havana Farewell
    9. Aracely's Natias
    Havana Midnight
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Havana Midnight
      Bob Neuwirth
      Manufacturer: Diesel Motor
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music
      Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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      Singer-SongwritersSinger-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000033K0I
      Release Date: 2002-01-08

      Tracks:

      1. Havana Midnight
      2. The First Time
      3. Dead Man's Clothes
      4. Miracles/Milagros
      5. Don Quixote
      6. The Call
      7. Look Up
      8. Havana Farewell
      9. Aracely's Natias

      Album Description

      UK edition of 2000 album. A sly, understated journey that finds the veteran rock/folk/blues tunesmith pairing his weathered voice & incisive lyrics with the arrangements & melodies of Cuban composer/arranger Jose Maria Vitier. The album is a more accessible stepping stone into straight Cuban music than even Buena Vista Social Club.
      Midnight in Havana
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Midnight in Havana
        Various Artists
        Manufacturer: Sony International
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00000JJN3
        Release Date: 1999-06-29

        Tracks:

        1. Las Cuarenta - Rolando Laserie
        2. Definitivamente - Azuquita
        3. Mil Razones - Trio Los Embajadores
        4. El Que Pierda Una Mujer - Rolando Laserie
        5. Uno - Rolando Laserie
        6. Como Fue - Beatriz Marquez
        7. A Media Noche - Beny More
        8. Plazos Traicioneros - Celio Gonzalez
        9. Tan Amigos Como Siempre - Soledad Delgado
        10. Un Amigo Mio - Orlando Vallejo
        11. Encantado De La Vida - Celia Cruz Y Cheo Feliciano
        12. Eso No Lo He Dicho Yo - Omara Portuondo
        13. Hasta La Vista Corazon - Trio Voces De Oro
        14. No Estas En Mi Programa - Mercy Hernan
        Midnight in Havana
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Beautiful
        		 Midnight in Havana
        Anthony Newman
        Manufacturer: Peter Pan Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00000K3LM
        Release Date: 1999-09-07

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        5 out of 5 stars Beautiful.......2002-07-15

        If you like instrumental music, several tracks on this CD will become some of your favorites. I highly recommend this CD.

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