27 Feb EDGE PUBLICATIONS, Padraic Maroney “… tailored to Duboc’s singing style which welcomes the songs into a new format while still paying homage to the original source material.”
The jazz singer keeps her vocals firmly planted in the genre that she feels most comfortable and makes a subtle, effortless change to the songs… Duboc has included hits such as “Say a Little Prayer,” “Wives and Lovers” and “What the World Needs Now.” Each of them is tailored to Duboc’s singing style which welcomes the songs into a new format while still paying homage to the original source material.
Dig These Discs :: Carol Duboc, Listen, Ilad, Farrad, Don Henley
EDGE is traveling the musical timeline this week with a pair of greatest hits albums, a debut album and a band three albums into their career. Don Henley is releasing “The Very Best of Don Henley” which allows listeners to get reacquainted with any past hits that they may have forgotten about while jazz singer takes on the greatest hits of Burt Bacharach. On the other end of the spectrum is the benefit album “Listen,” which is written completely by teenagers who are part of the Our Time organization. Just so that there werenít just the two polar opposites, Iladís third album is thrown in to fully complete the spectrum.
Carol Duboc – The Burt Bacharach Songbook
The Burt Bacharach songbook is probably one of the most overly done songbooks in music. His songs have been covered by countless artists as well as having been done more than once on American Idol.
Carol Duboc is the latest artist to cover his work with new album simply titled “The Burt Bacharach Songbook.” One of the problems of doing an album like this, filled with songs that are engrained in the American consciousness so much, is that if the singer merely does a replica imitation it becomes clear that they are just going through the motions with the records.
Here Duboc, along with Hubert Laws backing her up, avoids that trap by adding her own interpretation to the songs.
The jazz singer keeps her vocals firmly planted in the genre that she feels most comfortable and makes a subtle, effortless change to the songs to make them fit her singing style.
Among the songs that Duboc has included hits such as “Say a Little Prayer,” “Wives and Lovers” and “What the World Needs Now.” Each of them is tailored to Dubocís singing style which welcomes the songs into a new format while still paying homage to the original source material.
