Jazz Articles about Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey: Greatest Hits

by AAJ Staff
January 20, 2003

Riding the tail end of her Propellerhead-ed revival and the never-ending revival of the Bond films, the sassy Ms. Bassey is back with a retrospective of her decades of well-dictioned themes. Bassey plays her trump cards and also bluffs a few hands on tunes ranging from her unrivaled 007 three-fer of “Diamonds are Forever," “Moonraker" and “Goldfinger," to splashy show tunes like “Big Spender" and attempts at pop coverage--like a note- and gender-bending take on The Beatles’ “Something" and a ...