| Taking it to Hart | ||||
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Vocal jazz | |||
| Length | 52:48 | |||
| Label | Jazz House Records | |||
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Taking it to Hart is a 1996 studio album by Ian Shaw, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |    [2] |
Dave Burns of JazzTimes said that Shaw "is blessed with strong pipes and good intonation; unfortunately, he has also mastered every pop mannerism-bathos, exaggerated dynamics, melodramatic vibrato, fake-Southern diction, swoops of pointless-tasteless Mathis falsetto, the Tom Jones vocal wink, the ain't-we-hip scat", but added that the musicians and arrangements added a "tender counterpoint". [3]
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