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Since signing to Concord and releasing Baby Plays Around, an album of jazz standards, in 2001, Curtis Stigers has really found his footing, and with I Think It's Going to Rain Today, he continues to recast pop and rock ballads in easy, elegant jazz settings, an approach that allows his expressive, slightly raspy voice to work its wonders. It is an encouraging synthesis, and much like Cassandra Wilson, Stigers has an unerring eye for pop material that gains depth and emotional range when transferred to the jazz arena. Here he hits right out of the box with a wonderful restructuring of Willie Dixon's "My Babe," resurrects Mose Allison's Vietnam-era "Everybody Cryin' Mercy," and delivers an urbane reading of an early Tom Waits' song, "In Between Love" that reveals the impossible romantic that lurks under Waits' hipster growl. Stigers has also developed into an impressive writer, as well, and the two originals here, "Lullaby on the Hudson" and "Columbus Avenue," are both well configured, literate vignettes that more than hold their own along side such gems as Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," a classic ballad of conflicted emotions edging gracefully into ennui. This is an album of jazz-pop in the best sense, meaning it isn't pop done jazzy, but pop actually done as jazz, which is an entirely different horse, even if some radio programmers will fail to grasp it. The only misstep here is the bonus track that closes the album, a less than striking version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (featuring Stigers' ridiculous attempt at a scat vocal) that originally appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Game Six. Baseball songs aside, I Think It's Going to Rain Today is a fine and nuanced album, and Stigers is on to something here. He's an artist worth following closely, particularly if his writing continues to develop.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - WILLIE DIXON, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Palombi, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Crudup, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Willie Nelson, ComposerLyricist - Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Mose Allison, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sting, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Palombi, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Randy Newman, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Harry M. Woods, ComposerLyricist - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Waits, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Ben Allison, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CY COLEMAN, ComposerLyricist - Larry Goldings, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CAROLYN LEIGH, ComposerLyricist - Matt Wilson, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Palombi, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Pete McCann, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Larry Goldings, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Curtis Stigers, Producer, Vocalist, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Albert Von Tilzer, ComposerLyricist - Jack Norworth, ComposerLyricist - John Sneider, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Matthew Fries, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Keith Hall, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Phil Palombi, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
Album review
Since signing to Concord and releasing Baby Plays Around, an album of jazz standards, in 2001, Curtis Stigers has really found his footing, and with I Think It's Going to Rain Today, he continues to recast pop and rock ballads in easy, elegant jazz settings, an approach that allows his expressive, slightly raspy voice to work its wonders. It is an encouraging synthesis, and much like Cassandra Wilson, Stigers has an unerring eye for pop material that gains depth and emotional range when transferred to the jazz arena. Here he hits right out of the box with a wonderful restructuring of Willie Dixon's "My Babe," resurrects Mose Allison's Vietnam-era "Everybody Cryin' Mercy," and delivers an urbane reading of an early Tom Waits' song, "In Between Love" that reveals the impossible romantic that lurks under Waits' hipster growl. Stigers has also developed into an impressive writer, as well, and the two originals here, "Lullaby on the Hudson" and "Columbus Avenue," are both well configured, literate vignettes that more than hold their own along side such gems as Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," a classic ballad of conflicted emotions edging gracefully into ennui. This is an album of jazz-pop in the best sense, meaning it isn't pop done jazzy, but pop actually done as jazz, which is an entirely different horse, even if some radio programmers will fail to grasp it. The only misstep here is the bonus track that closes the album, a less than striking version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (featuring Stigers' ridiculous attempt at a scat vocal) that originally appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Game Six. Baseball songs aside, I Think It's Going to Rain Today is a fine and nuanced album, and Stigers is on to something here. He's an artist worth following closely, particularly if his writing continues to develop.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:21
- Main artists: Curtis Stigers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Concord Records
- Genre: Jazz
© 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc ℗ 2005 Concord Music Group, Inc
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