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After Ours

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Track Listings

1 Time After Time
2 Teach Me Tonight
3 My Funny Valentine
4 Old Devil Moon
5 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
6 All Blues
7 They Can't Take That Away From Me
8 The Music You Leave Inside My Mind
9 You Are My Sunshine
10 It Never Entered My Mind
11 Fallin In Love Again
12 Untitled Track

Product details

  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.28 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Denon Records
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 13, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Denon Records
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0000034QG
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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khyyam
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Singer
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2021
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In what was her first full Jazz recording, Ann Hampton Calloway did an outstanding job. Her rendition of every song, whether it is "The first time ever I saw your face" or "All Blues" is remarkable. Of course, the accompanying musicians (Kenny Barron, Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Jay Leonhart, George Jinda) play an integral role in the production of the various performances with some delightful solos. Added to that, the audio quality is quiet good.
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Lonson B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019
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Was exactly as represented.
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Delta4ever
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice CD
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2009
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I'm really digging this sista. She is singing some great classics as well as some old 80's goodies she's remade. Good investment
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WILLIAM C DALL JR
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2014
A most Talented Blues and Jazz Singer
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Samuel
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime
Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2004
Ann Hampton Callaway is so good, so naturally gifted, so willfully perfect that the main challenge she must face is to scale back her talents sufficiently to make them accessible to the listening public. Even though this album, down to the omission of a trap drummer, evokes Sarah Vaughan's "After Hours," the approach is at once more understated and calculated than that on Sassy's session. I had mixed feelings about Ann's earlier album, "Ann Hampton Callaway"--frequently energizing and inspiring but also overwhelming and overscored.
On "After Hours" the accompaniment doesn't get in the way or become redundant, and Ann seems less to "perform" ballads like "Valentine" and "It Never Entered My Mind" than to "breathe" them, infusing them with new life and welcome fresh perspectives. The latter song, which has overmatched many a singer (Sinatra and Carmen McRae are the striking exceptions), is a stunner. On the crucial phrase, "scratch my back myself," Ann makes it work not through seamless continuity (Sinatra) or onomatopoeia (Carmen) or the tempting "big crescendo" but through daring melodic choices and a willingness to let a couple of her notes hang naked, unsupported by the reassuringly sumptuous timbres of which she is capable.
A performance such as this (Jack Jones' recent musical tribute to Tony Bennett is another) should be ineligible for "stars" awarded by unknowing listeners like me. Music of this order judges the listener more than vice versa.
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Dr. Gary Axelson
4.0 out of 5 stars A lounge singer?
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2007
Ignore the tin ear knife job below. Rex Reed, Stephen Holden from the New York Times, John Simon from New York Magazine and a long line of others all agree this lady is a tremendous talent. Who are you going to believe? You can reasonably argue that this particular CD is neither for everyone nor her best, but check out the rest of her work. Go listen to Old Friend on Sibling Revelry or My Foolish Heart on Ann Hampton Callaway, etc, etc. She's the genuine article. And comparing her to Liz is comparing jazz to broadway. They're both good. They're also different. They're supposed to be.
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PAH
3.0 out of 5 stars a worthy, if somewhat disjointed, effort
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2001
Anytime one tackles the "standards", the challenge is to bring something "new" to a recording and yet maintain the integrity of what made the song a standard to begin with. And just like some cable stations use the same word "classic" to describe movies like "Top Gun" (versus say, "To Kill a Mockingbird"), there is a danger in mixing songs of varying vintages.
I've seen Ann Hampton Callaway perform here in St. Louis, and it is not a criticism to say she is a very fine lounge singer. This effort shows her strengths in that area, though I found this release to be good, not great. Her rendition of "Old Devil Moon" is quite good, and I am trying to figure out how other reviewers could be so harsh in their assessments given this and tracks like "My Funny Valentine"- certainly, these interpretations can't be too disappointing versus the other renditions in existence.
On the other hand, some of the material and the "flow" of the album if you will, do seem to disappoint when placed next to some of the better tunes. "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" is well done, but I'm not so sure it doesn't make most people think of going out and getting Roberta Flack's benchmark rendition On the other hand, her take on Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" takes the song right out of its MTV 80's sound and puts it squarely into a heartfelt grown-up-jazz singer context. And,I can still put on Calloway's "Old Devil Moon" next to Sinatra's and it doesn't suffer for it.
Bottom line: If you are looking for alternative renditions along the line of Cassandra Wilson, you will be disappointed. If you want an end-to-end run of undeniable standards, you'll be disappointed. But, if you want a collection of popular music sung by a singer with more vocal talent than most of the women you hear on radio today, you will find several nuggets on this that release that make it well worth its purchase.
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LIRIO
1.0 out of 5 stars Talent is not enough
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2006
Hmm, Anne Hampton Calloway - yes just a lounge singer, in the end.

Vocal talent, yes! How to use it ? No! It takes more than talent to be an interperter and actual singer of this kind of music. See the still abysmal and failed effort of Linda Ronstadt and her singing of these types of tunes, ouch!

What is missing here is a total lack of commitment to the song from one's very being. You gotta feel em!! And if you are not willing to risk your own experiences in front of an audience be it live or on audio, forget it - you come up with an emptiness and the audience gets nothing.

What a mess! When singers such as this one actually starts believing in her good reviews, boy are we in trouble.

LIRIO
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Bob Dalzell
5.0 out of 5 stars Great singer and cd
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2018
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Great singer and cd.
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G. Pechura
5.0 out of 5 stars Purer Jazz / In der Gilde der Jazzsängerinnen
Reviewed in Germany on May 12, 2009
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Diese 1994 aufgenommene CD war Ann Hampton Callaway's erster Versuch einer puren Jazz-CD. Obwohl sie immer jazzig gesungen hatte, so war sie doch in allererster Linie eine Nightclub-Sängerin mit Broadway-Erfahrung. Also versammelte sie eine Reihe hochkarätiger Jazzmusiker im Studio - Kenny Barron (p), Jay Leonhart (b), George Jinda (perc), Bob Mintzer (ts, ss), und Randy Brecker (tp, flh), verzichtete im Gegensatz zu ihren vorherigen Alben auf Arrangements und nahm 60 Minuten feinen Jazz auf.

Dem "After Hours"-Thema folgend, sind das meistens Blues und Balladen, vorwiegend von Piano und Bass begleitet (man vermisst das Schlagzeug nicht wirklich, Leonhart's kräftiger Walking Bass und Barron's Begleitakkorde tun ihren Job), mit viel Raum für solistische Einlagen von allen.

Ein paar Stichpunkte zu einigen Stücken: "Teach Me Tonight" - groovy Soul-Blues Feeling; "My Funny Valentine" - ganz im Stil Chet Bakers; "Old Devil Moon" - unheimlich swingend; "All Blues" - das erste reinrassige Jazzstück mit Bravour gemeistert, mit einigen gesungenen Referenzen an Miles Davis; "The Music You Leave Inside My Mind" - ihr einziges selbst komponiertes Stück auf der CD, wunderschöne Ballade; "You Are My Sunshine" - dieses nette Stückchen sauberes Amerika hätte man eher nicht hier vermutet, aber Ann Hampton Callaway gibt es nicht als Happy Swinger zum Mitsingen, sondern als groovige after-hours Liebeserklärung mit einem plunger-mute Randy Brecker, der Cootie Williams zum Staunen gebracht hätte, und natürlich wieder Kenny Barron; "Falling in Love Again" - ein weiterer Medium-Tempo Swinger zum Abschluss; aber Vorsicht: den Schluss macht eine 4:20 Minuten Improvisation von Callaway und ihren Mitstreitern, eine Ballade wiederum, die mit den Worten beginnt "It's three o'clock in the morning, where are you, where have you gone, my mind is filled with pictures..." eine improvisierte "After Hours"-Situations- und Gefühlsbeschreibung (das Stück ist übrigens nicht auf dem Cover gelistet).

Fazit: Erster Versuch - hervorragend geglückt. Damit hatte sie sich in die Gilde der ernsthaften Jazzsängerinnen hineingesungen.
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