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Trav'lin' Light
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List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Verve
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517365049
Label: Verve
Manufacturer: Verve
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Verve
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Studio: Verve
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With Trav'lin' Light, singer/actress/rapper/Cover Girl Queen Latifah (née Dana Owens) continues her chameleonic pan-stardom. The latest musical chapter in Latifah's success-studded career began with 2004's The Dana Owens Album, on which she emerged as a nuanced crooner of jazz and R&B standards. She continues this mode on her Verve records debut, adding ample individuality to such well-loved classics as Johnny Mercer's title track, Nina Simone's "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl," and Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" (with legendary harmonica pioneer Toots Thielemans). Steve Wonder's own harmonica playing lends nostalgic ornament to an otherwise rather forced "Georgia Rose," and much of the album languishes in similarly downbeat fare, though Latifah's voice is never wholly unbecoming of her song choices. Toward the album's end comes a welcome swerve for the energetic. Inspiring takes on the Pointer Sisters' "How Long" and Curtis Mayfield's "Gone Away" lead into the soaring choruses of "I Know Where I've Been." Taken together, these three songs superbly straddle the spectrum from the former rapper to the still-newly minted singer with a long lease on success and a peerless sense of how to grow older gracefully. --Jason Kirk
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Summary: Another great singing album
Comment: Queen Latifah fails to dissapoint. There is nothing she can't do. She can rap, She can act, and she can SANG! With Trav'Lin Light, She takes on classic songs originally done by Phoebe Snow, The Pointer Sisters, 10cc, Billie Holiday, just to name a few and adds her own, new fresh spin to them. What bothers me is that when it comes to her singing, she does strictly covers which makes me wonder if it's easier for her to write rap lyrics than it is to write jazz, R&B and easy listening lyrics. I think more original non-rap songs would be nice. Adding "I know where I've Been" from Hairspray was a great way to close the album. The voice this woman has makes me wonder why she started out doing rap music in the first place
My Top 5 tracks
1. I'M not in love (Originally by 10cc)
2. Poetry Man (Originally by Phoebe Snow)
3. I know where I've Been
4. I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
5. Tie - Every Woman is A Queen (Wal-Mart Bonus Track and an original song by QL) & Trav'lin Light
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Summary: The Queen
Comment: She has evolved as a Jazz Singer! I love the way she has transcend into the woman she is today! Keep on grooving honey!
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Summary: Trav'lin Light
Comment: Queen Latifa has a great voice and I bought this CD mainly for the first song, Poetry Man. That song is a real catcher and done very well. The rest of the CD is very average.
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Summary: Queen in Satin
Comment: That Queen Latifah can handle hip hop, pop, soul or jazz equally as well and persuasively should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed her career. Years ago on a guest tv appearance on she warbled an Ella Fitzgerald tune. She blew me away performing an acappella Stylistics tune on the short lived Whoppi Goldberg talk show. Her rendition of Dr. Buzzard's "Hard Times" on a Salt n' Peppa woman's compilation cd confirmed her ability to make a classic her own.
Her two vocal contributions to the film "Living Out Loud" hinted at a new found direction in music and the Dana Owens album delievered on the promise.
I have always loved the Queen's hip hop recordings and hope she will revisit her roots at some time in the future, however, Trav'lin' Light is Queen Latifah's crowning achievement. Recording an album of jazz standards has been a way for fading stars to garner some attention during the past few years, but Queen Latifah's fresh approach has her heads above the competition. A direct bull's eye hit!
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Summary: Beautiful music, Beautiful Lady, Great CD!
Comment: Wow, can she sing! I can only imagine how large her catalog would be if she had only sung jazz & standards from the beginning. What a Beautiful voice, a Great beauty!
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