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Sathima Bea Benjamin: Song Spirit
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il nome di Sathima Bea Benjamin è legato a quello del pianista Dollar Brand (al secolo Abdullah Ibrahim) ed all'esilio dei due dalla natia Sudafrica a New York ed all'Europa. La coppia si è spesso esibita insieme, ma come si può vedere dai bei nomi che l'affiancano in questa antologia di brani tratti dai numerosi album ...
SongSpirit
Label: Ekapa
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life; I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good; Africa; Indian Summer; It Never Entered My Mind; I Only Have Eyes for You; Memories of You; Music; Lush Life; Children of Soweto; I'll Follow My Secret Heart; Loveless Love/Careless Love
Musical Echoes
Label: Ekapa
Released: 2006
Track listing: All Too Soon; Caravan; Falling In Love With Love; I
Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit
by AAJ Staff
To celebrate her recent septuagenarian status, vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin selected twelve tracks spanning eight releases for inclusion on SongSpirit, from her first early-'60s sessions to her latest disc (Musical Echoes, 2002), in essence releasing a “greatest hits compilation--though who in jazz makes hit records?! Benjamin wisely selects an array of gems, particularly ...
Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit
by Andrew Rowan
Legions of jazz singers are out there these days with good chops and solid work. What is often missing, however, is that individual spark, those personal qualities that set the singer apart from the rest. Sathima Bea Benjamin possesses that spark, with a unique, aching quality in her voice that meshes well with the spirituality that ...
Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit
by Michael P. Gladstone
Having had the pleasure of hearing the most recent of Sathima Bea Benjamin's albums, Musical Echoes, some six months ago, I'm hesitant to add any more superlatives now that this retrospective look at the career of one of our finest jazz vocalists is about to be released. SongSpirit covers recordings made from 1963-2002. This collection of ...
The Cape Town Jazz Scene
by AAJ Staff
By Sathima Bea Benjamin Its jazz is both similar and different from American jazz. First of all, at the time--the late '40s-50s--we wouldn't even call it jazz if we didn't identify so completely with Black Americans, both in social and political ways. In South Africa and Cape Town especially, you've got the White people and African ...
Careless Love/Loveless Love
Album: SongSpirit
By Sathima Bea Benjamin
Label: Ekapa
Released: 2006
Duration: 8:54
Sathima Bea Benjamin: SongSpirit
by Jim Santella
A “best of compilation of Sathima Bea Benjamin's work between 1963 and 2002, SongSpirit lets emotions soar through the poignant themes that she's chosen to represent over the years. Whether she's interpreting jazz standards or telling personal stories about her undying dedication to her homeland, Benjamin always gives it a hundred percent. The fact that she ...
Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes
by Michael P. Gladstone
Musical Echoes marks Sathima Bea Benjamin's return to recording after Cape Town Love (1999). This album was recorded in her hometown, Cape Town, and reflects a certain sense of return for the vocalist. My own association with her music goes back to 1979 and her second album, Sathima Sings Ellington, the first release on her own ...
