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Time, Seasons and the Moon Southport Records,
2000
Total Running Time:
70:41
Price: $15.00
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Tracks
All tracks are short samples except the full
versions noted below. RealAudio streams, 32kbs. MP3 downloads, 300-700KB,
64kbs.
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Moonlight in Vermont
Blackburn/Suessdorf (:57)
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My Favorite Things
Hammerstein/Rodgers (:53)
RealAudio
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Have You Seen the Moon?
Parker-Sparrow (1:42)
RealAudio
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Like a Lover (O Cantador)
Full Version
Bergman/Bergman/Caymmi/Motta (4:33)
RealAudio
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Falling Grace
Cornfield/Garcia/Swallow (1:16)
RealAudio
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You Must Believe in Spring
Bergman/Bergman/Legrand (1:03)
RealAudio
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Where or When
Hart/Rodgers (1:31)
RealAudio
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Moonfall
Holmes (:54)
RealAudio
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| 17. |
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Zip a Dee Doo Dah
Gilbert/Wrubel (1:11)
RealAudio
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Players
Linda Tate
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vocals |
Bradley Williams
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piano (3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17) |
Bobby Schiff
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piano (16) |
Bradley Parker-Sparrow
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piano (11) |
Jim Cox
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bass (1, 2, 8, 9, 11, 16) |
John Whitfield
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bass (3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17) |
Greg Sergo
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drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 15,
17) |
Phil Gratteau
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drums (16) |
Heitor Garcia
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percussion (5, 13) |
Kathy Kelly
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vibes (16) |
Curtis Robinson
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acoustic guitar, electric guitar (1, 2, 8, 9,
11) |
Paulinho Garcia
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acoustic guitar, vocals (5, 13) |
Johnny Frigo
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violin (2, 8, 9, 11) |
| Steve Eisen |
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tenor saxophone, flute (5, 13) |
| Richie Fudoli |
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flute, tenor saxophone, clarinet (1, 2,
8, 9, 11) |
Liner Notes
Vocalist Linda Tate has always been attracted to jazz’s mystical
ability to play with time. She is also struck by the genre’s
inherent connection to the changing seasons and cycles of the moon.
An eclectic sweep of emotions flows and weaves throughout “Time,
Season and the Moon” – whose melodies are kissed by
nature and the ineffable passage of time.
Luxuriate in Linda’s Brazilian-tinged romp through a tropical
rain forest of sounds in “I Wished on the Moon,” followed
by the sultry elegance of the Old South in “’Tis Autumn.”
The note-caressing singer singer unfurls a typically musical theater
classic like “It Might As Well Be Spring” into silken
smooth splendor. Then she does the unexpected. “Just in Time”
– highlighting bass and drums – is transformed into
a complex rush of breathless urgency that happens under the notes.
And, as she opens with “I Concentrate on You’s”
lament “whenever skies look gray to me,” Linda parts
the clouds and sends brilliant beams of warmth into one’s
heart.
An exciting experimentalist, Linda might change the backdrop of
a familiar tune, like Cole Porter’s “From This Moment
On,” through layered improvisations. But she stays true to
the rhythm, lyrics and melody. Resolute longing engulfs “A
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square”; “September in
the Rain” gushes with unmannered seductive joy; and a mournful
grace illuminates “Moonlight in Vermont.”
The perpetually sunny “My Favorite Things” gives way
to a tortured tango-esque gravitas of “Have You Sen the Moon?”
From the subdued ecstasy of “Like a Lover” to the luscious
ache of “Falling Grace,” Linda will traipse across “the
meadows of your mind” with a gracefully intelligent rendition
of “You Must Believe in Spring.”
Continue past an up tempo “Where or When,” then get
lost in the vocalist’s heavenly seductions dressed in “Moonfall’s”
sensuous dew. The recording ends in a rapturous burst of “Zip
A Dee Doo Dah’s” wonderful day. Linda Tate engages us
with music for all kinds of weather…anytime.
Lucia Mauro |
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