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Leonisa Ardizzone Quartet - Afraid of the Heights
- Leonisa Ardizzone Quartet’s album, Afraid of the Heights, is filled with errorless instrument play and a female vocalist that will hook you in and put you in a feel good dance mood. The first track opens with fast talking from the lady singer and the instrument notes are in accordance with each word she utters. Some lyrics in the song include mentions of other continents and our country’s forefathers such as, “Ancestors who were here…They spoke the language everyone could dig …Millions of years ago in Kenya…Africa was the place that started the race then they originated history. If you really want to be hip, then take a tip, what evolutionary fact is true, brothers and sisters...If we can’t get along.” Following the history lesson, there is a great deal of scatting by the singer that really peps up the song. The second track has guitar and the female vocalist being a touch more tender with her voice as she talks about a place where she can go to get away from it all and just be herself, with lyrics like, “Far away from the matting crowd, from the noisy loud of midtown. There’s a place that I know about where you can hold out for days and to some New Jersey Heights, just the name gives them the freight. But there’s nothing to be feared in my new home, Washington Heights.” The third track has somber guitar play and she speaks of the culmination of relationship occurring because of her partner’s abandonment, with lyrics like, “The autumn leaves drift by my window…I see your lips the summer kisses. The sun-burned hands I used to hold, since you went away the days grow long and soon I will hear old Winter’s song that I miss you most of all my darling when autumn leaves start to fall.” Leonisa Ardizzone Quartet’s Afraid of the Heights is a mixture of dandy songs, along with ones that are personal in nature, and listeners can sense the lyrics come straight from the heart.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Reviewer's Rating: 8.5
Reader's Rating: 9.00
Reader's Votes: 1
Added: 1-Jan-2007
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