MP3 Song
Love is Real
THE SONG
A soothing tune with great vocals and guitar licks. This is the real deal where great writing meets excellent production and performance. This song is done so well you can picture yourself on the street watching, listening and feeling.
THE CD
This is a cool kick back and listen to disc. We put it in the player and relaxed. The spirit and soul here makes you feel very comforatble and at ease. A professional effort through and through from the playing to the recording quality.
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Leni Stern
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Guitarist-composer Leni Stern looks back on 13 years of a brilliant recorded legacy with Recollection, her tenth release as a leader and second for her own label. As well as featuring vintage material like an intimate duet with Bill Frisell from 1985's Clairvoyant, a track with David Sanborn from 1989's Closer To The Light and her boldest playing in the company of Dennis Chambers, Wayne Krantz and Lincoln Goines from 1991's Ten Songs, Recollection also includes new material that showcases her new more revealing vocal- oriented direction.
A Five-time winner of the coveted Gibson Award for Best Female Jazz Guitarist (1996-1997-1998-1999-2000), the German-born artist left Munich in 1977 to study composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Shortly after relocating to New York City in 1980, she began leading her own quartet which included guitarist Frisell, drummer Paul Motian and bassist Harvie Swartz, the lineup that appears on her first recording, Clairvoyant. Her recordings since then have been marked by thoughtful structure, evocative moods, attention to groove and an uncanny sense of lyricism. Musician magazine praised her 'love of melody and delicate shading' while Jazziz proclaimed that 'Leni is tracking territory virtually unknown to women in jazz.' She has also garnered critical acclaim for her playing, including this comment from Guitar Player magazine 'Leni has an inner strength and confidence that is communicated on her instrument with a quiet power.'
On her 1996 duet with guitarist Krantz, Separate Cages, Leni unveiled her very personal vocal style for the first time on record. She delved even further into vocals on 1997's Black Guitar, her debut for Leni Stern Recordings, and offers a few more samples of that new direction on Recollection.
As jazz critic Bill Milkowski writes in the liner notes: 'Over the years I've watched Leni blossom as an artist. And as her muse continues to take her farther afield from jazz, she has come to express herself more genuinely and deeply.'
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