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Title: Billie Holiday??? Ella Fitzgerald???? Whaaaaat????
Review: Despite having a beautiful, God-given voice, this girl has problems and they are all of them readily evident in this CD.First of all, she sounds NOTHING like Lady or Ella. NOTHING!! Which is fine, but she and others need to stop making this comparison.Secondly, she is most definately NOT a jazz styled singer. She is a pop singer who does standards. If you want to know how a jazz singer sounds, check out Paula West, Dianne Reeves or Allan Harris.Third, as Stephen Holden FINALLY pointed out in the NY Times, Monheit has problems when she sings songs she cannot connect with. This is her biggest problem.Finally, the cd is more often than not flat and uninteresting. And as for Mr. Buble, I shudder to think that people have been conned into thinking HE is anything more than a below average wanna-be Sinatra.
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