1 |
OVER
THE RAINBOW (The Wizard Of Oz) |
2 |
MOON
RIVER (Breakfast At Tiffany's) featuring Barry Manilow |
3 |
AS
TIME GOES BY (Casablanca) |
4 |
SOMEWHERE
(West Side Story) featuring Anita Baker |
5 |
THE
SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Love Theme From The Sandpiper)
featuring Johnny Mathis and Chris Botti |
6 |
THE
PINK PANTHER (The Pink Panther) |
| 7 |
THE
WAY WE WERE (The Way We Were) featuring Vanessa Williams |
8 |
THE
SUMMER KNOWS (Theme From Summer Of '42) |
9 |
IT
MIGHT BE YOU (Tootsie) featuring India.Arie |
10 |
CINEMA
PARADISO SUITE (Cinema Paradiso) |
11 |
A
WHOLE NEW WORLD (Aladdin) featuring Donna Summer |
12 |
SCHINDLER'S
LIST (Main Theme From Schindler's List) |
BONUS
TRACKS |
13 |
IT
MIGHT BE YOU (Instrumental Version) featuring Peter
White |
14 |
THE
SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Instrumental Version) featuring
Chris Botti and Norman Brown |
REVIEW
The
next best thing to listening to a “live” performance
is to, well, listen to one on an album. But this posh collection
of movie themes and songs does better than that – it
actually made us feel that we were listening to jazz saxophonist
Dave Koz playing his, erm, sax, “live”.
Opening
the 60-minute album is Judy Garland singing the classic “Over
The Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz (1939). Her gramophone
record-like voice is then taken over by Koz’s sexy saxophone,
adding a classy contemporary touch to an old classic.
Movie
fans will also rejoice at the inclusions of tracks like “Moon
River” featuring singer-songwriter Barry Manilow from
“Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) and the titular
theme song performed by Vanessa Williams from The Way We Were
(1973).
Too
dated, you say?
There
are also wholesomely welcome songs like “A Whole New
World” from the Disney hit Aladdin (1992) and “It
Might Be You” from Tootsie (1982). There are also jazz
renditions of familiar themes from modern movies like Steven
Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) and Giuseppe
Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1988).
So
there’s something for everybody, if you are in the mood
for jazz, that is.
The
entire 14-track album plays well on a lazy weekend, especially
if you want to chill out after a stressed week at work. It
is a very good alternative to visiting one of those music
pubs or bars where musicians play “live”, and
even worse, burn a hole in your wallet with its overpriced
cover charges.
The
music on this album is going to be so accessible; it’d
be like listening to Koz playing his, erm, sax, “live”
in your home.
SOUNDTRACK
RATING:
 
Review
by John Li
|
