The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live!

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The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live!
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Studio album by Sarah Vaughan
Released June 30, 1984
Recorded 1984
Studio Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Genre Vocal jazz
Length38:46
Label Kokopelli
Sarah Vaughan chronology
Gershwin Live!
(1982) Gershwin Live!1982		The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live!
(1984)		 Brazilian Romance
(1987) Brazilian Romance1987

The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live! is a 1984 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the poetry of Pope John Paul II translated by Gene Lees. [1]

Sarah Vaughan American jazz singer

Sarah Lois Vaughan was an American jazz singer.

Pope John Paul II 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint

Pope John Paul II was visible head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005.

Frederick Eugene John Lees was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist. His lyrics for Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Corcovado", have been recorded by such singers as Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Queen Latifah, and Diana Krall.

Contents

In 1995 the album was reissued on CD as The Mystery of Man.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album one and a half stars and said that "Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, the results often sound rather ponderous...The best pieces are the two original ones by Lees ("The Mystery of Man" and "Let It Live") but otherwise this is a difficult set to sit through, not only from the jazz standpoint (the impressive all-stars who are in the orchestra are largely wasted) but musically; everything is too serious and a bit pompous. Skip". [1]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

  1. "The Mystery of Man" (Francy Boland, Gene Lees) - 4:08
  2. "The Mystery of Man" - 0:48
  3. "The Actor" (Tito Fontana, Sante Palumbo, Karol Wojtyla) - 3:56
  4. "The Mystery of Man" - 0:26
  5. "Girl Disappointed in Love" (Fontana, Palumbo, Wojtyla) - 4:24
  6. "The Mystery of Man" - 1:09
  7. "The Madeleine" (Fontana, Palumbo, Wojtyla) - 2:10
  8. "The Mystery of Man" (Chorus and Instrumental) - 3:15
  9. "The Black" (Fontana, Palumbo, Wojtyla) - 2:58
  10. "The Mystery of Man" - 0:48
  11. "The Children" (Fontana, Palumbo) - 4:27
  12. "Let It Live" (Lees, Lalo Schifrin) - 1:01
  13. "The Armaments Worker" (Fontana, Palumbo, Wojtyla) - 5:14
  14. "Toward the Light" (Boland) - 0:34
  15. "Let It Live" - 3:28

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Lalo Schifrin Argentine composer

Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, including the "Theme from Mission: Impossible", Bullitt and Enter the Dragon. He has received five Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations. Associated with the jazz music genre, Schifrin is also noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the Dirty Harry films.

Arrangement musical composition in altered form

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Planet Is Alive...Let it Live!". Allmusic . Retrieved May 2, 2011.
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