Описание
Joe Cocker- HEART & SOUL- CD- 12.10.2004- EMI Records Ltd.- 724386640123- 400 grn
Out of print in the U.S.
HEART & SOUL is the nineteenth studio album by Joe Cocker, released in the UK on 12 October 2004, and in the US on 1 February 2005. The album is composed solely of cover songs, including a live version of the U2 song "One" taken from Cocker's 2004 Night Of The Proms performance in Antwerp, Belgium.
PERSONNEL: Joe Cocker – lead vocals; C. J. Vanston – keyboards, organ, acoustic and electric pianos, synthesizers, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, santoor, saxophone, trombone; Shane Fontayne – guitar; Steve Lukather – guitar solo; Jeff Baxter – guitar solo; Michael Landau – guitar; Dean Parks – guitar, nylon guitar; Michael Thompson – guitar; Jeff Beck – guitar solo; Eric Clapton – guitar solo; Gene Black – guitar; Bruce Gaitsch – acoustic guitar; Leland Sklar, Ray Neapolitan – bass; Ray Brinker, Vinnie Colaiuta – drums; Rafael Padilla – percussion; Bruce Eskovitz – saxophone; Nick Lane – trombone; Bill Churchville, Chris Tedesco, Chris Botti – trumpet; Jerry Goodman – violin solo; Alexander Adhami – santoor; Shelly Berg – orchestra conductor; Danielle Ondarza – orchestra contractor; Bernie Barlow, Terry Dexter, C.C. White – backing vocals.
While Rod Stewart was busy chasing American Songbook classics up the charts in Cole Porter drag, 60's Brit-soul colleague Joe Cocker pursued a more contemporary and compelling set of standards. The material here stretches from the soulful American R&B hits that first inspired the gritty-voiced singer to their modern progeny, emotive ballads like REM's "Everybody Hurts" and the compelling studio/live takes of U2's "One" that bookend the album. Cocker revisits old inspirations Lennon ("Jealous Guy" recast as warm, Caribbean-rhythmed R&B) and McCartney (a grand, if less inspired "Maybe I'm Amazed"), but it's on more vintage material like "Chain Of Fools" and Lieber-Stoller's "I Keep Forgetting" and "I (Who Have Nothing)" that Cocker truly invests his considerable interpretative instincts. Jeff Beck solos with tasteful, typically elastic lyricism on the latter, while fellow ax icon Eric Clapton torches "I Put A Spell On You" with his own bluesy fire. But as brilliant as Cocker and his session cohorts (who also include Steve Lukather and Dean Parks) often are, their efforts sometimes skid on C.J. Vanston's way-too-slick production; aiming for the middle of the road, Vanston instead drives material like James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely" and Cocker's otherwise lovely read of "Everybody Hurts" towards a ditch.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Clear Tray Includes Six Page Foldout Inlay.
On CD: Made In The EU; On Back Cover: Printed In The EU.
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