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Trav'lin' Light by: Queen Latifah List Price: $13.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.97 You Save: $4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517365049 Label: Verve Manufacturer: Verve Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Verve Release Date: September 25, 2007 Studio: Verve Sales Rank: 1522 MPN: 000920302 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Grammy® award-winning recording artist, Queen Latifah, debuts on Verve Records with her new album Trav'lin' Light. On this jazz and R&B influenced album from legendary producers Tommy LiPuma and Ron Fair,Queen Latifah delivers sultry yet powerful performances on a hand-picked mix of familiar classics and forgotten jewels. Amazon.com: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Trav'lin RightI've spent the summer with this album in my car. What a great travel CD!!! Rating:  - surprisingthis cd is bad. it's an easy listen when for a mellow mood. she has a really nice voice. i like it. Rating: - Another great singing albumQueen 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 ... Read More: Rating: - The Queen She has evolved as a Jazz Singer! I love the way she has transcend into the woman she is today! Keep on grooving honey! Rating:  - Trav'lin LightQueen 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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