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| Artist: Melody Gardot
Label: Universal
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 1831
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 33
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 001046802
UPC: 602517496408
EAN: 0602517496408
ASIN: B000WTNCYA
Release Date: February 18, 2008
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Good album, good singer April 25, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a very mellow late night album. Melody Gardot has a beautiful voice that suits the jazz/folk genre perfectly. The songs she has composed are intelligent and well written. Recommended.
 Cool jazz with a modern twist April 24, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Melody Gardot wrote the songs on this CD but they have a timeless classuic quality that constantly reminds you of the works of Nat King Cole, Sinatra and others of that era. Yet listen to the lyrics and you soon realise that they are totally contemporary and original. The arrangements are smooth yet full of hooks and surprises. This is a shorter CD than most nowadays but I can't really fault any of the tracks. This is the sort of album Norah Jones might have made if she had swung towards jazz rather than country for her second album. Recording quality is excellent. A great album from a greatly under publicised artist.
 Background music April 24, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'll be honest, this album is definitely a mood thing; It's not the sort of music you'd put on at a house party, it's more the kind of music you'd expect to hear in a hotel's front lobby.
Worrisome Heart by Melody Gardot is a gentle album full of tickled ivory and swinging slow rhythms, there aren't any standout tracks that deserve particular recognition, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, the whole album blends into one seamless audio experience.
I'm trying hard not to call the album bland, I don't want to particularly as its clear Gardot has a good voice, although its equally clear she has yet to master it. The atmosphere is well orchestrated and the instruments do the job nicely, it just seems like the area that suffered most was the creative conception; the songs sound the same!!!
If I had to recommend this to anybody, as harsh as it sounds, it would be for people searching bargain bins for a background tape to put on to a dinner party, because at the end of the day it doesn't have that hold to keep people interested in it long enough...Sorry Melody!
Certainly doesn't out-stay its welcome April 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an unusually brief album, with a running time of slightly over 33 minutes. Indeed, 4 of the 10 tracks clock in at under 3 minutes. Is that a negative? Well, as someone once said "we learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school". Of course, the riposte to that was "it must have been a pretty good record" (or, as the songwriter pointed out "a pretty bad school"). But I digress...
The danger with this kind of lightweight jazz-blues is that the musicians go off at a tangent and display all their chops: there's certainly none of that here - the songs stand and fall on their own merit. Melody Gardot has a perfectly pleasant voice - not as deep as, say, Diana Krall, but one that sits perfectly in tune with the songs.
And the songs? Jazz-blues probably is the best way to describe this. OK, we're talk talking John Lee Hooker meets John Coltrane, but there's some nicely delicate work going on here. Having said that, there's not a lot that reaches out and really grabs you by the throat. "Sweet Memory" is a track that will possibly get stuck in your head for a while, but that's an exception. The trumpet is, I feel, a much-underused instrument, so "One Day" is more than welcome...but at two minutes, this really could (should?) have been worked into a longer number. "Love Me Like A River Does" is a great title for a song (though I still can't decide what it means), but, much like the river of the title, the song just kind of meanders along - yes, it peaks in places, but soon falls away again. A missed opportunity for something exceptional.
Taking as a whole, this is a perfectly fine and pleasant album, but I think I'd much rather experience Melody Gardot in a club somewhere.
Mid-tempo music that falls between too many genres April 18, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I listened to this twice and thought it was a bit bland. Jazz inflected music that was neither pop enough, rock enough, singer-songwriter enough or even jazzy enough to be jazz itself. It didn't have any strong melodies and I quickly forgot all the songs on this short 33 minute album.
I listened to it again for the first time in a few weeks to see if a bit of time has been kind to it. The songs have not become any more pronounced, or any more memorable than they were before.
It's not bad music but it is a bit too bland and relentlessly mid-tempo to be something I would recommend.
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