Lazy Afternoon

Track Listings
 
1. Café Indigo
2. Thursdays
3. Springtime in Prague
4. Lazy Afternoon
5. Fooling Around
6. Recovery
7. Ice Capades (2nd Symphony)
8. Memories of Moscow
9. Piano Concerto No. 1 in CM
10. Home, Sweet Home
11. Fuer Elise
12. Albinioni

Lazy Afternoon,Martin Gerschwitz,Silica,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Rock/Pop

Lazy Afternoon

Lazy Afternoon
Lazy Afternoon
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Long-time Fan
  • Satisfied Husband
  • SENSATIONAL DEBUT PERFORMANCES BY THE JAZZY SWEDE SONGSTRESS WHO LOVES BRAZIL
Lazy Afternoon
Elin
Manufacturer: Blue Toucan Music
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ASIN: B000H7JCNM
Release Date: 2006-09-05

Tracks:

  1. Fascinating Rhythm - Bina Coquet, Elin, Pedro Ito, Ricky Sebastian, Luiz Paulo Simas
  2. Lazy Afternoon - Gustavo Amarante, Elin,
  3. I Love New York - Gustavo Dantas, Elin, , Adriano Santos
  4. Aquarela Do Brazil - Gustavo Dantas, Elin,
  5. Vera Cruz - Gustavo Amarante, Elin, , Ricky Sebastian
  6. Bonita - Bina Coquet, Elin
  7. Luna - Elin, Adriano Santos
  8. Lush Life - Elin
  9. Doralice - Gustavo Amarante, Gustavo Dantas, Elin, Pedro Ito, Ricky Sebastian
  10. Sugar - Gustavo Amarante, Elin, Adriano Santos, , Keith Underwood
  11. Casa Forte - Gustavo Amarante, Elin, , , Ricky Sebastian

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Long-time Fan.......2007-04-08

Elin has a beautiful way of making every song her own. That is the result that some musicians spend a lifetime mastering, but she grabs onto a tune and drinks down the lyrics in a way that shows it is second-nature to her.
The Brazilian tunes, especially, flow perfectly.
A great cd for jazz enthusiasts and neophyte listeners alike.

5 out of 5 stars Satisfied Husband.......2007-01-16

I purchased the CD for my Husband for Christmas, he has liked all the selections so far.

5 out of 5 stars SENSATIONAL DEBUT PERFORMANCES BY THE JAZZY SWEDE SONGSTRESS WHO LOVES BRAZIL .......2006-12-24

Five HUGE Stars!!! Elin is a wonderful Sweden-born, New York-based singer/songwriter who is SENSATIONAL on this chart-making debut CD. She fell in love with Brazilian music and the culture as a teen, learned Brazilian Portuguese, and lived in Rio for a while. Formally educated, she is no stranger to the singing venues of the world from Sweden to Brazil to Miami to New York and beyond. Her performances here of Brazilian music and straight-ahead jazz display flawless time and dazzling technique as she nails Portuguese phrases and creates jazzy scenarios. She also sings in English and Spanish on this CD, displaying three of her five fluent languages. And when they walked into this studio, she and her cohorts were READY to make some special music. This disc has received great reviews from jazz radio DJs and the esteemed 'Downbeat' magazine. BTW, "Elin" is pronounced "e-ah-LEEN' " spoken quickly.

Her lovely honey-toned voice is used as an instrument which goes from slow ballads ("Lush Life") to smoking sambas ("Casa Forte") to 'cuica'-imitation ("Aquarela do Brasil") to vocalese gymnastics ("Doralice") within her well-defined range. This CD has a group of exceptionally-arranged songs bolstered by jazz soloists of power and imagination. I love singers who can hold their own and graciously share solo time.

The 'Pieces De Resistance", the best of the best, begin with a sizzling treatment of "Fascinating Rhythm" in English as a samba that jumps to "Telefone" in Portuguese to 'scat'-ing and it totally works (kudos to Elin and the clarinet player). "Lazy Afternoon" swings away from Brasil as a straight-ahead commendable ballad (lush vocal from Elin & great flugelhorn from Claudio Roditi), and she swings it right back to Brazil with hip sambas: her own "I Love New York" and a fun "Aquarela Do Brasil". Elin's second lovely composition "La Luna" is in Spanish & heats up vocally as it goes, with two smoking 'Getz-ian' tenor sax solos, leaving us wanting more.

The late Brazilian super-diva Elis Regina's influence is strong on this CD and Elin has the subtle power and technique to both pay homage to Regina and use her music as a springboard for individualistic vocalizing. This is seen in the case of the extended treatment of the wordless "Casa Forte" (love the hot cello work behind her) and the AWESOME ballad and baião treatment of "Vera Cruz", which was originally a short Elis Regina tour-de-force. Elin shows her familiarity with Regina's version then expands on it TWICE with fresh Portuguese nuances, extending the performance to over 6 minutes of wonderful, emotional vocalizing and instrumental solos (Claudio Roditi makes a second stunning appearance on flugelhorn ). "Vera Cruz" can best be described as pure 'ear & brain candy'. Bravo, Elin! This is a wonderful, sensational debut. More, please! Highly Recommended!! Five ENJOYABLE Stars!!

(Notes:
*This review is based on an ITunes musical download.
*Sweden is a hotbed of musical excellence, much like Brasil, but there are a number of singers using the name "Elin". Our Brazilian/jazz "Elin" is using only one name as her stage name, but others such as Elin Sigvardsson, Elin Ruth, and model Elin Lanto are also out there, so buy carefully, although they are also excellent vocalists. Keep your eyes (and ears) on Swedish music.
* Elis Regina's short but incredible version of "Vera Cruz", with it's hairpin twists and turns, can be heard on the 'FIve Star' CD "Como & Porque".)
Lazy Afternoon
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Provocative and evocative. Brilliant.
  • Sublime.
  • The sultry jazz stylings of the the incomparable Ms. Regina Belle
  • Regina: a showstopper with star power !
  • This is a monster line-up CD !! Regina loves company !!!!
 Lazy Afternoon
Regina Belle
Manufacturer: Peak Records
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ASIN: B0002A2W9K
Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

  1. Lazy Afternoon
  2. Fly Me To The Moon
  3. What Are You Afraid Of
  4. If I Ruled The World
  5. Corcovado
  6. There's A Love
  7. Why Do People Fall In Love
  8. For The Love Of You
  9. If I Should Lose You
  10. Moanin'
  11. The Man I Love
  12. Try A Little Tenderness

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Provocative and evocative. Brilliant........2007-07-21

One of the most versatile and artistically daring singers and musicians to emerge in recent decades, Regina Belle has always kept her admirers on their toes, never giving them a hint of what to expect next.
"Lazy Afternoon" is no different in that respect: it's full of surprises, both in its luxuriant, floral arrangements and production and its singular conceptual focus on songs that ask why so much in our world has gone just plain wrong, when it would be so simple to flip it over and make it all right.
To get her point across, Belle has chosen a number of Broadway songs and jazz classics taking on the uneasy task to re-invent them and make them sound totally new and absolutely gorgeous.
Regina also contributed material, and in choosing pianist /keyboardist maestro Gorge Duke, one of the country's most visionary record-makers of the day, to produce, she ensured that her ideas would be taken to fruition with a maximum of creative juices flowing on all sides.
Duke and Belle work closely together to complement the singer's alternately graceful and robust, ever sensual, remarkably flexible jazz-like phrasing with equally bright, sonically rich accompaniments. Bringing in a number of different arrangements and a roomful of extraordinairy guests ), Regina has succeeded in making a poignant statement without resorting to proselytizing.
With hits such as "Baby, Come to Me" and "Make It Like It Was" from Stay with Me and "If I Could" from Passion, Regina Belle has always been categorized as an R&B singer, though one never needed to dig too deep to discover the jazz inflections and influences in her music (check this To Grover, With Love out) .
Still, it's taken nearly two decades for her to release what the singer calls her first "in-your-face" jazz record.
"I always wanted to do a jazz record, but the thing for me was making sure I hooked up with the right people," says Belle about her latest offering.
"I have a special feeling for jazz, and I don't want to disrespect anybody because it requires a different type of study, a different type of focus.
"At the same time, I wanted to make sure that what I was doing was Regina Belle, not Ella Fitzgerald or Nancy Wilson as much as I love them. I needed to make sure that what I did had my signature on it.
Although she's performed such jazz songs as "You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)" and "If I Should Lose You" in concert, whenever the Grammy winner broached the topic of making a jazz album, record label officials had a hard time believing.
"They wanted an R&B vocalist, and I could do that, so I did that", she says. "It's a rare occasion when you get an opportunity to do what you want to do".
That opportunity came when Belle, 40somehing now, signed to Peak Records, which also released her Grammy-nominated R&B album, This Is Regina in 2001.
Still, with Belle's versatile, supple voice, Andi Howard, president of the contemporary jazz label, encouraged her to finally make a jazz CD.
"We said, 'Let's do something different, let's do something that shows a side of you maybe your concert-going audience has seen, but maybe your record-buying audience has not heard," Howard says. "At a time when everybody is talking about doing these standards records and jazz records, this is perfect for her".
"Lazy Afternoon" is an album of standards, but unlike similar collections by such diverse artists as Diana Krall, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler or Carly Simon, Belle doesn't hesitate to radically reinterpret American classics -- such as turning Frank Sinatra's finger-snapping "Fly Me to the Moon," into an elegant ballad.
"I needed to put on a new dress on these songs, some 'Regina-bling,' and that made the difference," says Belle, who lives in suburban Atlanta.
"Trying to sing these songs the same old way they've been sung over the past 50 years wasn't going to work for me, and getting to do my own renditions of songs I've loved for so many years was a real honor."
For "Moanin'", which has been recorded by such artists as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Ray Charles, and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (Jon Hendricks wrote the words for Bobby Timmons's original composition), Belle recorded the song as gospel-tinged blues.
"That's the way I used to do it in college with these guys I used to work with," she says. "We did it in a gospel way, and for this I really wanted to do something different."
Helping Belle was an array of noted jazz musicians, including bassist Christian McBride, guitarist Ray Fuller, Everette Harp, Lenny Castro and the Perri Sisters.
"George is just a gifted individual," Belle says, who adds that Duke was her first choice to produce. "He's underrated. There's so much he's done, so much he's accomplished, and George made this album so easy for me."
Secure with the talents surrounding her, Belle even felt comfortable performing "Try a Little Tenderness", a song closely associated with Otis Redding.
The late soul great made the tune his own when he performed a staggering version at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, and it remains one of his signature songs.
Still, Regina was not reticent in giving it her own spin.
"You can't keep his version out of your head," Belle says. "My challenge was making sure I gave the song some justice without going in there and trying to do an Otis Redding.
"I needed to be the best Regina I could be, and hopefully make him smile down on me."
Regina is at the forefront of a new generation of jazz singers. With one of the most distinctive voices in music, the singer - and now also songwriter, check it out on the latest Paul Taylor's Ladies' Choice - pushes the boundaries of conventional jazz performers and expands the jazz repertory creating modern jazz standards.
"Lazy Afternoon" is ultimately, in purely musical terms, a hopeful, sunny, simply wonderful record.

5 out of 5 stars Sublime........2007-07-09

I've had this recording for 2-3 weeks now, and I can't seem to get enough of it. On first listening, from the first few notes breathed from Regina Belle's voice, I knew I was in for something magical.
Even though Regina's sound is recognizable immediately, no one should mistake that statement as characterizing her as standing still musically - her art is continuously evolving and growing. Since the issue of her first albums , I've been following the creativity of her music, and I've never been disappointed.
Regina's music expecting it to be limited to R&B - that would be a big mistake. When asked if her music should be called 'Soul', Regina wisely says `Time spent trying to define the music is time taken away from playing it. I always simply say, "I sing"....
At the peak of her maturity and her most subdued, as its title indicates, the CD sees the singer in full-on ballad mode, tenderly wrapping her burnished pipes around a cherry-picked collection of standards that range from achingly sad to romantically moody.
How good is she?
She manages to put her stamp on songs as well covered as the title tune, which has already been done by the likes of Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughn, Patti Austin...
This is a perfect album that will delight both afficionados of the American Songbook and those who just want music to sigh to...
Does the music touch you or not? This is what matters.
I've always felt that the mark of a master vocalist is the impression left with the listener that the voice is an extension of the performer's very soul - a window to their inner being, through which everything that makes them the person they are can be "seen" in the form of music.
This recording delivers on that rare level - and it soars even higher on repeated listenings.
It's a treasure in the fullest sense of the word.
It could be accused of being almost too sophisticated and tasteful at times, and you can certainly see all those people looking for dinner party music rushing to buy it. Yet that shouldn't detract from the fact that Regina Belle is a wonderful singer and this collection of songs is her best yet.

"If I Shoul Lose You" and ""Why Do Peple Fall In Love" perfectly capture the originals' heartbreaking poignancy quite beautifully.
Although maybe 'cover version' isn't really the right word - Ms. Belle is really a reinterpreter of songs, putting her own spin on most of the numbers here and often making them her own. They're split between standards that most people will recognise and some rather more obscure material.
It won't change your mood, or alter your emotional state, but when it's listened to in a certain frame of mind it soars. I listened to it first on a Sunday afternoon, with a cup of iced tea : it's that kind of music, a warm, slowly engulfing hug of an album that puts Regina's glowing vocals at the forefront.
Ignored by mainstream press and radio, LAZY AFTERNOON is the latest example of an artist - and an album - bypassing the traditional publicity routes and finding success by word of mouth on the internet.

5 out of 5 stars The sultry jazz stylings of the the incomparable Ms. Regina Belle.......2007-06-29

American vocalist supreme Regina Belle is plenty more than the easy-listening artist it's easy to typecast her as, though this album - mixing originals and classics - may be one of the first ones of hers to prove it beyond doubt.
Her engaging,wonderful tones are complemented by George Duke's piano sound and deft contributions from soloists including saxman Everette Harp, percussionist Lenny Castro, bassist Christian McBride, just to name a few.
The tracks are short and the solos are brief but the restrained instrumentation gives Regina's voice plenty of space to charm.
Passionate and emotional it may be, but there's no theatrical wailing and gnashing of teeth here.
Regina Belle has the knack of sounding natural and even offhand when she sings - as if she's talking with a friend.
Regina Belle is elegance personified, putting her sultry stamp on the most popular jazz standards. In fact, she's a rather elegant time-machine, turning back the clock to a time, warmer than this, when music was still for dancing; proverbially, cheek-to-cheek. When all's said and done, she's a torch singer; and, in this respect, and many others, few can hold a candle to her. Her music is the stuff of which memories are made.
On her self-penned "There's A Love", she shows how powerful a word, a whisper can be.
Her liquid gold voice takes on a dark edginess, and on Nina Simone's "If I Should Lose You", a heartbreaking interpretation with piano by Duke and Regina's voice only. A masterpiece of a song, worth alone the price of the album.
It's clear that these songs have been chosen for their lyrics.
The one-time pop goddess has taken a leaf out of Diana Krall's book with this new CD.
The emphasis is firmly on love songs and Regina' lived-in voice is ideal for such jazz ballads as the Gershwins' "The Man I Love" and the splendid Tony Bennett's "Why Do People Fall In Love".
Listen to it, please!

5 out of 5 stars Regina: a showstopper with star power !.......2007-06-19

When Regina Belle sings, she's like a historian. In her phrasings one can hear the struggles of generations of black singers who used the sheer, powerful force of vocal styling to tell their stories.
Compared with other contemporary singers, her voice reveals real strength of character. She may not have the biggest voice or hold the longest notes, but her sound really resonates in a room. It calls up the spirits of black musicianship. And when Regina gets the spirit, the spirit gets you. Or,as she admits, people believe her.
We all know this Lady from her numerous hits and especially the Grammy awarded tune " A Whole New World " back in 1993. If you loved those songs then you will not be disappointed with her latest offering.
The vibe of the album is laid back, sun-drenched with jazzy flavours and unapologetically adult-oriented.
Regina's vocals are fantastic and are also captivating in that they are sexy, smooth, luxuriant and relaxed in a magnificently warm amalgam. For instance, check out the opening song, the ESSENTIAL "Lazy Afternoon". Every time I get into this sexy groove I hear Billie Holiday's influences, Nina Simone's depth, Sarah Vaughan's sensibilities, Julie London's barely restrained eroticism betwixt the groove and Nancy Wilson's sensitivity in delivery. Oh yes, this is what I want to hear!!!
"Lazy Afternoon" is a gorgeous floater that will have lovers reaching for the repeat button. We do not hear tracks of this quality much nowadays, dear readers, and the fact that there are but 12 songs on offer here should not put you off at all.
Here in this world it is the quality that counts and there's more of that in the first two tracks that anywhere else, let alone the rest of the CD!!!
The aforementioned "Lazy Afternoon" lopes along with its warm , sensual, jaunty stride and has echoes of Sarah Vaughan within its make-up. I'm thinking more of the sensitive arrangements and chord changes that are cleverly and neatly understated.
When I heard "Why Do People Fall In Love" I could imagine Anita Baker attempting this type of ballad. I especially like the fresh, live feel of the recording . This song is woefully short for my liking - a sure-fire indicator that I love it very much and cannot get enough of it. Luckily the beautiful "If I Ruled The World" has similar traits and although does not rise to such dizzy heights has much to keep you gripped...(please, just to understand how a song should be interpreted,check the latest Tony Bennett's "An American Classic : Duets" album and the same song sung by Tony and Celine Dion -- ) !! Can you hear, can you feel the difference ?
More impressive still is the excellent "If I Should Lose You" with only George Duke on acoustic piano.
It really is lovely to have real singing and real instruments in the studio. Slinky, hearbreakingly emotional - a dream of a track! Enough said.
Throughout the whole album, the backing, heavenly vocals by the Perri Sisters in support are sublime.
"The Man I Love" and "Try A Little Tenderness" are the jazziest offerings and a smart, cool way to drop the curtain on what has been one of THE jazz albums of 2005 and beyond...so far.
Please do not overlook this album. Hopefully we will receive more gems like this from Regina Belle in the coming years.

5 out of 5 stars This is a monster line-up CD !! Regina loves company !!!!.......2007-06-15

This year has proved a CLASSIC year for lovers of quality music. Here comes an essential album that defies musical pigeonholing; knows no boundaries or lines of demarcation. Regina delighted us with some fantastic albums years ago and now she returns with a vengeance with "Lazy Afternoon", which is what I will call an interpretation album.
These are not simple cover songs. That is the domain for the less able artist, and plenty spring to mind. Regina Belle is much above the arch-mediocrity of proliferating acceptable middle-class orientated "jazz" artists that are seeping their way into the charts with their "cover sets".
As far as I am concerned Regina excels herself with this album of timeless American classics. The album cannot be described as anything less than sheer luxury, sumptousness and exuberance, and overflows with the lady's gospel/jazz/r&b roots, her ever-expansive talent and her boundless energy and enthusiasm. The tempo is down, the mood firmly in the traditions of Soul, Jazz, Groove idiom ( with a hint of Bossa Nova..).
Also she is extremely comfortable with jazz and you can easily sample her gorgeous jazz phrasing on the sax master Paul Taylor's latest Ladies' Choice.
The multi-talented George Duke (keyboardist/pianist/arranger/producer) joins Regina, and we fondly remember them from the fantastic track "JUST THE TWO OF US" (with Steve Cole on sax) from the gorgeous tribute album To Grover, With Love, produced by Jason Miles.
The Perri Sisters, Everette Harp, Lenny Castro, David Parks, Ray Fuller, Gordon Campbell, Alex Al, Oscar Brashear and Christian McBride join in the fun, too. And yes, I do mean fun!
On this album one can clearly hear that all the musicians involved are masters of their craft, in the studio making the music they want to make and are getting their thrills from doing it. The sheer elegance and smoothness of production is palpable and together they work as one to re-craft, remould, tear apart and gently reassemble some of the most well known songs in America's standard songbook.
The opening song will have you hooked; the gentle, lazy, sexy "Lazy Afternoon" and velvet-rich vocals turning this into a song that I may as well never heard before. Sheer quality. The piano and the guitar make this an essential summer song by anyone's standards. This pattern is repeated and each song is a considered, expertly performed track in its own right.
Many conventional readings of such standards as "Fly Me To The Moon" and the Gershwins' "The Man I Love" have given me a lifetime of cold ambivalence to songs which actually contain exquisitely beautiful lyrics. Regina proves its not what you have, it's what you do with it. I think these great songwriters, those past masters that I had once grimaced at, would be very proud of these interpretations. The melodies are pure Regina Belle, the lyrics often precise and cleverly juxtaposed with the bubbling, passionate nature of George Duke's productions yet the perfect match is made and we here we have one of the essential albums for 2005!
"Lazy Afternoon" is perfect for that lazy afternoon (like the one I wish I was having!), "Why Do People Fall In Love" and "For The Love Of You" are Regina-penned gems. George Duke, the Perris and Regina have crafted an indispensable album that will delight established fans, lovers of standard songs, those of a romantic nature and, if justice be done, SHOULD be known to the wider, mass record buying public.
Next time,I'd like to hear Regina making some jazz covers of songs by the unforgettable,legendary LOST VOICE of SOUL : TIMI YURO.
Summer is here. So, in the meantime,enjoy a 'Lazy Afternoon' with Regina!
Lazy Afternoon
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Lazy Afternoon....
  • Barbra Streisand: Lazy Afternoon (1975)
  • One of her strongest albums, even if rather downhearted
  • ANOTHER OF BARBRA'S CATALOG GEMS
  • MESMERIZING STREISAND CLASSIC~BRAVO BARBRA!
 Lazy Afternoon
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ASIN: B00000255P
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. Lazy Afternoon
  2. My Father's Song
  3. By The Way
  4. Shake Me, Wake Me
  5. I Never Had It So Good
  6. Letters That Cross In The Mail
  7. You And I
  8. Moanin' Low
  9. A Child Is Born
  10. Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Lazy Afternoon...........2007-05-26

I love Barbra."Lazy Afternoon" has a few good ones...."My Father's Song" amung other's...very low key Bab's, but still GREAT!!!

5 out of 5 stars Barbra Streisand: Lazy Afternoon (1975).......2005-08-18

In October of 1975, Barbra Streisand released her twentieth album entitled, LAZY AFTERNOON. This is album is one of strongest albums. This album was very enjoyable and I'm glad I gave it the chance it deserved. Let me tell you why.

LAZY AFTERNOON
The album's title track. This is such a great song.

MY FATHER'S SONG
This song is just outstanding. That's the best & only way I could describe this song.

BY THE WAY
Great.

SHAKE ME, WAKE ME
Great.

I NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD
Incredible.

LETTERS THAT CROSS IN THE MAIL
Great.

YOU AND I
Amazing. In 1982, Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle had teamed up to record their beautiful duet entitled, "You And I". Their duet turned out to be my mother & father's wedding song.

MOANIN' LOW
Don't know what to say here.

A CHILD IS BORN
Is this supposed to be a prelude to Barbra's 1976 lead role in the film, "A Star Is Born".

WIDESCREEN
Great.

LAZY AFTERNOON is for all Barbra fans. I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed this album. So, if you want this album, especially since you are trying to gather all of Barbra's albums, then, by all means, please, buy this album.

4 out of 5 stars One of her strongest albums, even if rather downhearted.......2004-10-20

Barbra Streisand was one of the most popular and successful personalities in entertainment by the mid-1970s, managing both music and film careers with the greatest of ease. With her keen eye for material that suited her talents, a Barbra album was more than likely to be both innovative and enjoyable. While her careers may have been moving full steam ahead in the success department, on record, Barbra seemed more in reflective mood on 1975's LAZY AFTERNOON.

Indeed, this album is definitely one of Barbra's most sedate, with ballads reigning supreme, playing to her strengths as a torch singer for the modern day. This is also surprising considering her main collaborator on LAZY AFTERNOON. Songwriter/co-producer Rupert Holmes was just appearing on the scene, his debut album about to hit the market. While he would have success with more quirky material like "Escape [The Pina Colada Song]", "Him" and "Answering Machine", Rupert shows off a different, soul-stirring side to his talents in his work on LAZY AFTERNOON.

"My Father's Song" is clearly one of the most personal songs Barbra ever sang, given that her own father died when she was still a child. She demonstrates her uncanny ability to make another songwriter's lyrics (Rupert's) sound like hers. That is perhaps the true test of an interpretative singer, and Barbra has always passed with flying colors.

"By The Way" features a rare co-writing credit for Barbra that she claims came about by accident, but resulted in her first original English-language tune. For someone who envied the work of female singer-songwriters their knack for writing their own material, this somber ballad proves that Barbra can indeed work magic with a pen when the inspiration comes.

"Letters That Cross In The Mail" sounds like one of those typically quirky songs that Barbra often included on her albums (just consider "Honey Can I Put On Your Clothes"), and is definitely something you'd expect Rupert to conjure up. But the more subdued mood of LAZY AFTERNOON turns this into a borderline-heartbreaking song that shows how communication is both important and a hinderance on the path to true love. I think this song would have benefited from a more upbeat and humorous atmosphere.

"Widescreen" originally appeared on Rupert's debut with lyrics that wanted to linger in the dream world of motion pictures and the mystery it embodied. However, Barbra didn't exactly feel the same way, and asked if Rupert could slightly change them towards the opposite. While this frequent occurence in Barbra's career is often named by her detractors as proof of her perfectionism, Rupert understood and revised his lyrics towards those that embraced reality more than fantasy (particularly the line "let the movie end").

For the non-original tunes, Barbra proves once again her ability to know exactly what her strengths are and, if possible, discover some hidden ones. The title track was from a moderately successful Broadway musical called THE GOLDEN APPLE, and Barbra thought the song deserved a revival. With the languid atmosphere on the album, this was a perfect choice for the title track.

Paul Williams' "I Never Had It So Good" was not one of his more popular songs, but Barbra has always been a seeker of the best if not well-known works in a songwriter's output, and this song about disbelief in how well things are going in your life is par for the course. Barbra had been inspired by Kris Kristofferson's performance of the song at a party to record her own version (Kris had done it a few years earlier).

Stevie Wonder had a fervent fan in Barbra, her having recorded "All In Love Is Fair" earlier on. So she returns to the well for "You & I", which contains probably her best vocal performance on the album, soaring to the heavens in a way that had to have inspired mutual admiration on Stevie's part.

An American Songbook standard was expected from Babs sometime on the album, and here, it's "Moanin' Low", a torch song if ever there was one. Featured prominently in the classic movie KEY LARGO, the tune has the right amount of bump-and-grind to make it more than your average "my-baby-done-me-wrong" sobfest.

"A Child Is Born" had originally been written for Barbra's 1972 film UP THE SANDBOX, but didn't make the final cut. She loved the song enough to ask her friends, lyricists Alan & Marilyn Bergman, to write lyrics. Barbra was right in saying that the spare piano accompaniment worked better than the orchestrated one that had also been recorded. Such a tender lyric would have been too sugary with so much sweetening.

LAZY AFTERNOON's sole sign of spring in its step is Barbra's cover of the Four Tops' classic "Shake Me, Wake Me [When It's Over]". It was this song that encouraged me to pick up the album because it is one of my favorite Tops songs. Disco had not yet become the way of life it would soon be thanks to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, so the fact that Barbra practiced it before it was cool shows how visionary she is. While I still prefer the Tops' version, Barbra's gives LAZY AFTERNOON that added hint of lightheartedness to prevent it from being completely introspective.

Barbra Streisand certainly had no reason to be down in the mouth in real life during the time of LAZY AFTERNOON, but for the sake of artistry, she maybe could afford to create such a deeper album. By collaborating with someone like Rupert Holmes, who was just on the cusp of stardom in his own right, Barbra demonstrated her wish to stay ahead of the curve in whatever she did, something that has not changed in her career. True, LAZY AFTERNOON may not be the album one will enjoy on first listen, but it's certainly one of Barbra's works that reveals its strengths after a few listens, particularly on lazy afternoons.

4 out of 5 stars ANOTHER OF BARBRA'S CATALOG GEMS.......2004-03-23

Barbra Streisand's career has been filled with so many highs that some of her most unassuming, sensitive work seems to fall unnoticed. Of course, when discussing Streisand, unnoticed is a relative term, as nearly all of her studio albums are either gold or platinum and are always "events" for her legions of fans. "Lazy Afternoon" fell right after the controversial "ButterFly" and (partial) letdown of "Funny Lady" and about one year before the "A Star is Born" phenomenon. Now, nearly 30 years later, "Lazy" remains one of her seminal works from the 70s. The opening title ballad is an astonishingly lovely piece of pop magic and sets the thoughtful tone for the album. Rupert Holmes' strong contributions include the Streisand-inspired "My Father's Song", "Letters That Cross in the Mail", and the closing epic "Widescreen", and he did much of the arranging here as well. Would that Barbra could always have been gifted with such a dream collaborator as Holmes, who understood her strengths and shared his meaningful songs with her to both their advantages. Listen to the purity and sheer beauty of her vocals on "By the Way" and "A Child is Born", and then remember that people at the time were still buying Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton-John records--it really gives one pause. I guess Barbra, still on top after 40-plus years, is having the last laugh. My only reservations were the inclusion (or maybe just the sequencing) of the disco-tinged "Shake Me, Wake Me" and the hard-to-warm-to torcher "Moanin'Low", but these are small reservations. The remastering on this, as with all of Barbra's catalog, is excellent; she never sounded so good. Except on all the other albums.

5 out of 5 stars MESMERIZING STREISAND CLASSIC~BRAVO BARBRA!.......2003-09-22

When this gorgeous set of great songs came out in the mid-70's it was such a relief after the uneven "BUTTERFLY" as it was a return to great form plus a new depth in Barbra's interpretations. From the hauntingly beautiful opener "LAZY AFTERNOON" to the soulful closer "WIDESCREEN", its clear that BARBRA had reached a new level of artistic growth and these performances are timeless classics that hold up beautifully with the passage of time. Soul deep performances such as "MY FATHER'S SONG" becomes a deeply moving experience and the pensive self-penned "BY THE WAY" is dark and moody. A Motown classic "SHAKE ME,WAKE ME" is a rhythmic cooker that BARBRA has fun with and the beautifully sentimental "I NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD" is another winning vocal filled with heartfelt emotion. RUPERT HOLMES and BARBRA really connected and were a musically inspired pairing and "LETTERS THAT CROSS IN THE MAIL" is a magically haunting vocal that goes deep inside these unique lyrics that tell a fascinating story. A definitive version of STEVIE WONDER'S "YOU AND I" make one wish that BARBRA would do the STEVIE WONDER SONGBOOK and a classic torch song "MOANIN' LOW" becomes one of the most electrifying performances ever from BARBRA and it is a thrilling ride on a soaring voice. Soft and warm is the glorious "A CHILD IS BORN" while "WIDESCREEN" is a dramatically intense tour-de-force classic that becomes a sweeping mini-epic that is stunning and completely original as it transforms one back to that special time of getting lost in and growing up at the movies. "LAZY AFTERNOON" stands the test of time and is one of the really brilliant classics from this gifted singer who is an original classic who is second to none...do not miss this tremendous masterpiece if you want to experience vocal artisty at its finest and thank you BARBRA STREISAND!!!! This is a timeless and wonderous collection and oh so very satisfying...
Center Stage: Broadway 1947-1958
Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
  • STREISSAND LIVE IN CONCERT 2006
 Center Stage: Broadway 1947-1958

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ASIN: B0007ZEO1E
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

  1. Shall We Dance?
  2. Ohio
  3. Luck Be A Lady
  4. The Ballad Of Mack The Knife
  5. There's A Small Hotel
  6. Once In Love With Amy
  7. The Yodel Blues
  8. Lazy Afternoon
  9. There Must Be Something Better Than Love
  10. You're Just In Love
  11. Now Is The Time

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars STREISSAND LIVE IN CONCERT 2006.......2007-05-15

CONTENT WAS EXCELLENT BUT THE CD HAD TOO MANY GAPS IN TRANSITION FROM EACH TRACK.
Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles
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    		Lazy Afternoon Among the Crocodiles
    Terry Riley; Stefano Scodanibbio
    Manufacturer: Mi.Pl
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B00000G65H
    Release Date: 1997-03-15
    Lazy Sunday Afternoon
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • OOOO sumu rie
    • Just Perfect
    • A near-perfect album
    • Positive surprise for springwaiting...
    • Excellent !
    		 Lazy Sunday Afternoon
    Jazzamor
    Manufacturer: Blue Flame
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    ASIN: B00007KFSC
    Release Date: 2003-01-07

    Tracks:

    1. Way Back
    2. Childhood Dreams
    3. Berimbou
    4. Story Of Elaine
    5. Things We Do For Love
    6. Save The Night
    7. Around 'N' Around
    8. Summertime
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    10. Callin' Venus
    11. Sometimes
    12. Caminho
    13. Fly Me To The Moon
    14. Rastos Na Areja

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars OOOO sumu rie.......2005-08-19

    kai we du du boo boo soo nu uooo nooo! me trety? uoigk dhhs... :-) kdlorklk!!! WAY BACK djdsyu fllh ouiykh fhgymk..(mjfklo ouip)

    5 out of 5 stars Just Perfect.......2003-10-06

    Lovely, soft voices, great tunes. A superb boss nova electronica album. Definitely one of the best albums of 2003. Listen the sample songs, I am sure you will fall in love with this album.

    5 out of 5 stars A near-perfect album.......2003-05-11

    A near-perfect blend of electronica, jazz, bossa and lounge. Musically, it's a seamless album and singer's voice is haunting, but in a sunny positive way; perhaps memorable is a more accurate word. The instrumentation is beautifully arranged and executed, and very indicative of high talent. The only problem that keeps this album from being a true five-star CD (I would have given it a 4 1/2, if possible) is that most (if not all) of the songs on the disc are covers. It would have been interesting to see what they would have done with more original material, but this is a minor nitpick.

    If you're into this kind of music, this is definitely an album to get, and a band to watch for in the future.

    5 out of 5 stars Positive surprise for springwaiting..........2003-03-19

    Album is bjuutifull! Really! 100% positive feelings. It's like briliant voice of Portishead, but singing about warm summer night, not about cold evening in the old and dark house. :) In the world of "too much" lounge music, this CD is one to want one.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent !.......2003-03-09

    A mix between jazz lounge and bossa nova. This album is fantastic, relaxing... an album to buy.
    A Lazy Afternoon
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Harold soars with some great standards
    • "Land in Satin"
    		 A Lazy Afternoon
    Harold Land
    Manufacturer: Postcards
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    ASIN: B00000371M
    Release Date: 1999-10-05

    Tracks:

    1. Lazy Afternoon
    2. You Don't Know What Love Is
    3. In a Sentimental Mood
    4. Nature Boy
    5. You Go to My Head
    6. But Beautiful
    7. Invitation
    8. Stella by Starlight
    9. The End of a Love Affair
    10. You've Changed
    11. Wave
    12. Round Midnight

    Album Description

    On A Lazy Afternoon, the esteemed and seasoned tenor vet Harold Land and drummer Billy Higgins combine forces with the orchestration of Ray Ellis, who arranged Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin, to create a recording of jazz drive, tensile strength, and lush romanticism. For the twelve standards included on the disc, Ellis has crafted deft arrangements that showcase Land's proclivity for emotion-laden performances; the result is a dynamic package that celebrates both melody and rhythm in an atmosphere rich with feeling. For many performers, working with a string section is a long-held dream. The lush backdrop warmly supports an instrumentalist or a singer, setting the stage for emotional, often unforgettable performances. Listen to orchestral albums by such greats as Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown, and Johnny Hodges, and the beauty and feeling that arise from these situations is soon appreciated.

    A Lazy Afternoon is a stellar contribution to this genre. Here, the consummate tenor saxophone artistry of Harold Land, easily one of jazz's premier improvisers, meets the sumptuous string orchestrations of Ray Ellis, who is best recalled for Lady in Satin, the 1958 session for Columbia Records for which he wrote gorgeous string backdrops for Holiday.

    A Lazy Afternoon features ear-pleasing renditions of such evergreens as "You Go To My Head," "Invitation," "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Nature Boy," "In A Sentimental Mood," "Wave," and the title track, "Lazy Afternoon." Land and the string and orchestral palette are accompanied by the ace rhythm team of Billy Higgins (drums), William Henderson (piano), and James Leary (bass).

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Harold soars with some great standards.......2004-01-25

    I've always been a big fan of sax master Harold Land, who still maintains the subtle and incisive manner that he has displayed over decades in the business. This album includes some of the greatest standards that ever were. While it is true that many jazz purists will object to the sometimes intrusive orchestral background on these tracks, Land's remarkable interpretations still manage to soar above everything else. Yeah, it would probably have been better with a small ensemble, but Land's performance remains breathtaking.

    5 out of 5 stars "Land in Satin".......2001-10-28

    Terrific arrangements by Ray Ellis allude to but never repeat his charts for (five of the same songs) Billie Holiday's "Lady in Satin" If you love that album, this one will make your day! Harold Land's tenor has a lovely tone and the strings support rather than Wrestle him. This is a lovely album for a lazy afternoon or evening!
    P.S. If you think Lady in Satin is Billie's worst or find the strings sepulchral or overdone this will NOT be to your taste.
    Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005
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      ASIN: B000B8I93Q
      Release Date: 2005-10-18

      Tracks:

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      Music For A Lazy Afternoon
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        For a Lazy Afternoon (Dig)
        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
        • one of my favorites
        		 For a Lazy Afternoon (Dig)
        Various Artists
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        ASIN: B000065VBT
        Release Date: 2002-05-07

        Tracks:

        1. Pachelbel: Canon in D
        2. JS Bach: Concerto For Two Violins & Orchestra in D minor: Largo
        3. Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor: Adagio. Allegro. Adagio
        4. JS Bach: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
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        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars one of my favorites.......2002-07-31

        A nice mix of classics that are soothing without being boring. I have this in my office and have found myself both happier and more relaxed when I play it. Because there are no real extremes in volume I can put it one low and have it in the background during a meeting or turn it up when I'm by myself.
        I recommend it was antidote to stress and crabbiness.

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