Move Your Hand [Live]

1. Charlie Brown

2. Layin' in the Cut

3. Move Your Hand

4. Sunshine Superman

5. Dancin' in an Easy Groove

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Average customer rating: Nice Collection PERFECT! Great singing and excellent value for money More than two hours of beautiful 17th century 'ayres'

Purcell: Songs & Airs / Argenta, North, Boothby, Nicholson, Toll Henry Purcell , Nancy Argenta , and Nigel North Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Essential Purcell Purcell: The Fairy Queen Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort Gabrieli · Monteverdi · Vivaldi - Venetian Church Music / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players · Andrew Parrott Bach: Cantatas ASIN: B000059LOH Release Date: 2001-06-05

Tracks:

1. O Solitude - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
2. Ah! How Sweet It Is To Love - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
3. Not All My Torments - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Paul Nicholson
4. Stripp'd Of Their Green - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
5. Tell Me, Some Pitying Angel - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
6. If Music Be The Food Of Love - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
7. Hark! Hark! The Echoing Air - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
8. The Fatal Hour Comes On Apace - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
9. Incassum, Lesbia - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Paul Nicholson
10. Sweeter Than Roses - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby
11. Cupid, The Slyest Rogue Alive - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
12. From Silent Shades - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
13. Dear Pretty Youth - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby
14. From Rosy Bow'rs - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
15. Now That The Sun Hath Veil'd His Light - Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson
16. Beneath A Poplar's Shadow - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby
17. I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly - Nancy Argenta/Paul Nicholson
18. Let Us Dance - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/Richard Boothby/Paul Nicholson
19. Fairest Isle - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
20. O Solitude - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby

Tracks:

1. Nymphs And Shepherds - Nancy Argenta/Nicholas Robinson/Fiona Huggett/Trevor Jones/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
2. Amidst The Shades And Cool Refreshing Streams - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
3. Love In Their Little Veins Inspires - Nancy Argenta/Rachel Becket/Marion Scott/Richard Boothby/Nigel North
4. Fly Swift, Ye Hours - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
5. They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers - Nancy Argenta/Nicholas Robinson/Fiona Huggett/Trevor Jones/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
6. The Plaint: O Let Me Weep - Nancy Argenta/Pauline Nobes/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
7. In The Black, Dismal Dungeon Of Despair - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/John Toll
8. See, Even Night Herself Is Here - Nancy Argenta/Nicholas Robinson/Fiona Huggett/Trevor Jones
9. Why Should Men Quarrel? - Nancy Argenta/Rachel Becket/Marion Scott/Richard Boothby/John Toll
10. Seek Not To Know - Nancy Argenta/Paul Goodwin/Sophia McKenna/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
11. Retir'd From Mortals' Sight - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
12. To Arms, Heoric Prince - Nancy Argenta/Mark Bennett/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
13. O Lead Me To Some Peaceful Gloom - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
14. Halcyon Days - Nancy Argenta/Paul Goodwin/Pauline Nobes/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
15. Bid The Virtues - Nancy Argenta/Paul Goodwin/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
16. Lord, What Is Man? (A Divine Hymn) - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
17. Music For A While - Nancy Argenta/John Toll
18. If Music Be The Food Of Love (1st Setting) - Nancy Argenta/Richard Boothby/John Toll
19. Sawney Is A Bonny Lad (A Scotch Song) - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North
20. When I Have Often Heard Young Maids Complaining - Nancy Argenta/Nicholas Robinson/Fiona Huggett/Richard Boothby/Nigel North/John Toll
21. Ah! Cruel, Bloody Fate - Nancy Argenta/Nigel North/John Toll
22. Thy Hand, Belinda... When I Am Laid In Earth - Nancy Argenta/Nicholas Robinson/Fiona Huggett/Trevor Jones/Richard Boothby/Nigel North

Customer Reviews:

Nice Collection.......2007-03-05

I have many collections of Purcell's Music. This collection stands up to them at half the price. Solid buy.

PERFECT!.......2006-10-26

There is only a word with which I can describe this set of discs: perfect!
The only flaw there is, is not related to the singing or playing: no text enclosed.

Great singing and excellent value for money.......2004-09-19

This is probably one of the best anthologies of Purcell songs around, and not just because it's two-for-one pricing means it contains twice as much music (CD1:74'24" & CD2: 77'41")! Nancy Argenta has an irrepressible sense of style and crystal clear diction. But unlike Emma Kirby, whose vocal purity can become tiresome, these renditions radiate warmth. She is also, I have found, more consistently involving than any one of the singers in Hyperion's three disc survey of Complete Secular Songs (recently reissued as a single set). One marvels at how she judiciously balances restraint and emotional forthrightness. The accompaniments (archlute, viola da gamba, harpsichord, and organ) are well judged and blend with the voice, all helped by an excellently defined recording acoustic. This is an absolute winner at any price!

More than two hours of beautiful 17th century 'ayres'.......2001-08-02

Two CDs, totaling more than 150 minutes of sparsely-arranged (never more than 3-5 instruments at a time), sweetly-sung, 350 year old 'ayres' (a typically English form of secular music). Nancy Argenta's soprano voice is lovely, silvery indeed as her name implies. The instruments are a discreet but friendly accompaniment to her solo voice. Perhaps the instruments are a little too discreet -- there are times when I wish they were a touch more prominent. But that is a very, very minor complaint. A beautiful collection, and quite well worth the money.

Average customer rating: "Dancing to an Easy Groove" is exactly what you'll do. Low on the volume / Low on the funk Definitely, Lonnie at his Funkiest ! ! ! Move Your Hand and You Will Follow Makes me feel gooood...

Move Your Hand Lonnie Smith Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Funk | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Boogaloo | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live at Club Mozambique Down Home Style Think! Everything I Play Is Funky Electric Funk ASIN: B000005GYX Release Date: 1996-03-05

Tracks:

1. Charlie Brown
2. Layin' In The Cut
3. Move Your Hand
4. Sunshine Superman
5. Dancin' In An Easy Groove

Customer Reviews:

"Dancing to an Easy Groove" is exactly what you'll do. .......2004-08-10

Anyone that has listened to Lonnie Smith should know that Dr. Smith is at his best when performing the slow and grinding ilk of funk. While his album "Live at Club Mozambique" is a great and funky disc, it tends towards the faster and more energized groves; it only gives us a taste of the grinding slow stuff. This album, however, gives us a lot more of the slow grinders that Dr. Smith is rightly known for.

The two best tracks on this disc, then, are "Layin' in the Cut" and the "extra," track, "Dancin' in an Easy Groove." These tracks have two of the most fun grooves I've heard and find the band laying back quite a bit. "Move Your Hand" is at a middle-of-the-road tempo but all the while has the same type of grinding groove to it, with more of a James Brown "Hotpants" flavor. The other two tracks, "Charlie Brown" and and "Sunshine Superman" - both of them covers - serve as welcome counterpoints to the slower grooves - both tracks being a bit faster, more energetic, and posessing standard blues chord changes.

The only thing I can say against the CD is that the musicianship tends to be a bit sloppier than I'd like. The drummer in particular makes some huge gaff ending fills a bit hesitantly, and most noticeably, speeding up quite a bit on a few tracks. The soloists at times get a tad bit boring as some of the soloing consists more of 'diddling around' episodically on the instrument than actually playing a connected and melodic solo.

But of this, I cannot complain too terribly much and can only deduct one star. The grooves this disc provides is more than enough to rave about.

Low on the volume / Low on the funk.......2003-11-26

This is a great album by one of my favorite soul-funk-jazz artists, but LIVE at CLUB MOZAMBIQUE is better. The volume on MOVE YOUR HAND is really low and where is the funky drums?? I really think the band was tighter and more in the pocket at Mozambique. George Benson on guitar and Joe Dukes on drums makes all the difference. I wouldn't want to be without Move Your Hand, but I am glad I got Live @ C.M. first. Oh by the way, thats not a woman singing on the title cut (like some have suggested)thats the man himself- LONNIE SMITH!

Definitely, Lonnie at his Funkiest ! ! !.......2001-01-29

Yes, this is Lonnie Smith at his funkiest.

A great 1970 session... Lou Donaldson protege Lonnie Smith was actually beating out Jimmy Smith in the Downbeat Polls as Best Organist at that time... Today (2001), Lonnie Smith has traded in the Cowboy hat for a turban, is back with Lou (sometimes tours with McGriff) and can often be heard playing stunning ballads and blues (but will still get VERY funky when called upon), but at the heyday of the era, he made the right move teaming up with baritone sax player Ronnie Cuber adding even more funky bottom to the groove.

Just as Lou Donaldson's albums broke loose of many blues cliches a few years before, introducing a new funky boogaloo rhythm into Jazz, Lonnie breaks free of the boogaloo funk cliche's of the '60s and absorbs the funk of JB and then contemporary black radio. In fact, this is probably the least dated B3 CD of that era. He even does a bit of singing visa vis the enormously funky "Move Your Hand" which could of just as easily been taken up by George Clinton and P-Funk.

Cool, Funky and Groovin', this CD along with Jimmy Smith's ROOT DOWN and Lou Donaldson's Midnight Creeper are definitely top picks for the true Hammond B-3 funkateer.

When the heck is Blue Note going to re-reissue Reuben Wilson's BLUE MODE ??????????????

Move Your Hand and You Will Follow.......1999-12-08

Lonnie Smith's greatest album. Lonnie Smith not Lonnie Liston Smith whom many people mistake him for. Both of these artists play the Hammond organ, but Lonnie Smith is far superior. Lonnie has that essential groove that remains through the whole album. Right from the first track you realise you are on one of Blue notes very special albums. "Charlie Brown" sets the scene while "Layin in the Cut" builds up the pace to an awe inspiring state on one of the greatest groove organ tracks I have ever heard. On the Title track "Move Your Hand" Lonnie matches his organ brilliance with unique heart felt vocals. On "Sunshine Superman" Lonnie continues the saga. The man is backed by awesome performances on guitar by Larry Mcgee and Rudy Jones on Tenor Saxaphone as well as many other musicians also giving excellent performances. This is an album that always remains by the stereo, mainly in it. You will always return to it. This is the exact music you would want to listen to in your favourite bar with dim lights a groovy armosphere and your favourite drink in your hand......Superb

Makes me feel gooood..........1999-08-04

This is a fantastically enjoyable recording. Great grooves, great organ sound. "Move Your Hand" with the female vocals is a gem. This disc gives me the same joy as "Black Talk" by Charles Earland. Buy it and be happy too!

Average customer rating: Fairest voice for Fairest Isle Exquisite taste Miraculous Splendid Music from a Splendid Singer Crystalline delight!

Barbara Bonney - Fairest Isle Barbara Bonney , Christopher Hogwood , and The Academy of Ancient Music Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Academy of Ancient Music | ( A ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Bonney, Barbara | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney Mozart: Lieder Exultate, Jubilate Songs by Robert & Clara Schumann Mendelssohn: Lieder ASIN: B000055XGE Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

1. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
2. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
3. Away With These Self-loving Lads
4. Flow My Tears
5. Never Weather-beaten Saile
6. The Sypres Curten Of The Night
7. It Was A Lover And His Lasse
8. O Lord, How Vain Are All Frail Delights
9. Fantasy No.9
10. Though Amaryllis Dance In Green
11. If Music Be The Food Of Love
12. Abdelazer: Air
13. Abdelazer: Air
14. The Plaint: O, Let Me Weep
15. Fairest Isle
16. She Loves And She Confesses Too
17. They Hand, Belinda...When I Am Laid In Earth

Amazon.com

Away from the clamor of grand opera and soaring symphonies, Fairest Isle takes us into the quiet, intimate world of English Elizabethan song, and you could hope for no better guide than Barbara Bonney. Her clear, beautifully rounded voice is superbly controlled, making light of a masterful technique; if you want to hear art concealing art, look no further. This is intensely private music, in a program that cleverly sidesteps any risk of listener fatigue by starting with lute accompaniment (infinitely tender playing by Jacob Heringman), moving on to a viol quartet, then finally to the richer sound of the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood. Leavening the mix are three instrumental interludes. The title piece is a blithe, dancelike song. Better known are some of the classics of English song: Dowland's "Come again" and "Flow, my tears," Morley's "It was a lover and his lass," and Purcell's "If music be the food of love" and "When I am laid in earth," a heart-in-mouth performance that makes time stand still. --Keith Clarke

Customer Reviews:

Fairest voice for Fairest Isle.......2006-07-27

I adore Purcell's songs, and possess many fine recordings of them. I perform them myself and enjoy the experience each and every time. When I listen to a new recording of Purcell songs, then, my expectations are both high and informed.

Barbara Bonney is simply a delight. Her voice on this album is almost incandescent with beauty. She sings with elegant simplicity that contains a great deal of art (the hardest sort of simplicity in the world to convey!). Her tone is pure, limpid as a stream, as delicately and beautifully wielded as a prism irradiating a cavern with colour.

Her vocal colour needs no introduction. Ms Bonney is widely known as "The Radiant Voice", following on from one of her album titles - and it's extremely apposite. She is radiant indeed, and her technique is beautifully sure.

Only in one track was I disappointed - the last track on the CD. "Thy hand, Belinda" seemed to me to have been approached with a more consciously dramatic style in mind, and it results in a couple of vowel distortions and a not quite convincing performance. Yet the voice itself is consistently beautiful, and I have no hesitation in giving this a 5-star rating.

Beautiful. Listen to this while you're stuck in traffic, and you are certain to feel your tension melt away at the sheer loveliness of the singing...

Exquisite taste.......2006-01-02

Barbara Bonney is one of today's most underrated singers. Her voice is always clear, true, and thrilling. She is certainly capable of vocal fireworks, yet she has the artistry and respect for musical period to know when such displays are, and are not, appropriate. In "Fairest Isle", she demonstrates her hallmark excellent taste in approach and choice of material. Too often, these lovely, gentle songs are assigned as exercises for beginning singers, and are then quickly relegated to the dust bin when the singers turn professional and are only interested in the biggest, flashiest operatic parts they can find. Ms. Bonney doesn't fall in that trap. She certainly is capable of bright vocal fire, yet she is artist enough to know gentle understatement can resonate emotionally with the listener long after the flash has faded.I must also say something about Ms. Bonney's beautifully clear diction. Her English is always understandable and perfectly presented, as opposed to Renee Fleming's, which seems to get muddier and more mannered with each successive recording. "Fairest Isle" is highly recommended!

Miraculous.......2004-10-28

I have had this CD for about 3 years, and it instantly became one of my most treasured. I never tire of listening to it.

I am now listening to it yet again, and am constantly astounded at the utter beauty, refined simplicity, and just perfect taste of Bonney's voice.
Her diction, her natural way of singing and letting the emotions melt in her mouth, her articulation always brilliant, round, glowing, 3-dimensional, her timing and instinct perfect.

And the songs... a wonderful collection of love, philosophical, and devotional pieces. All beautiful and universal.

The instrumental accompaniments are graceful, colorful (each in their own hue), and a dignified match for Bonney's musical stature.

I particularly liked "Come Again", "Never Weather-beaten Saile", "Fairest Isle", Dido's lament, and "She loves me and she confesses too". But all tracks are very good.

I own a large collection of "classical" (I hate that word) and early music, as well as opera, lied, vocal, etc.
I am very particular about what I listen to.
This CD is still one of my most cherished... intimate and very refined.

You could say that Keats was right when he wrote "Truth is beauty, beauty truth..."
Bonney's rendition of these songs is beautiful because it is honest and true... and vice-versa.

ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED.

Splendid Music from a Splendid Singer.......2004-01-28

Like most classical music junkies I have my share of "early music" from the 15th and 16th centuries. When I saw that Hogwood and his terrific band from the Academy of Ancient Music were coming out with an Elizabethan selection I expected something interesting, a little exotic and a good listen. (Purcell fans will know what I'm getting at.) Wrong. What struck me is how completely accessible these songs are. All were composed and published and should not be considered "folk" music in a formal sense I suppose. But as performed by the extremely talented Ms. Bonney, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was listening to early Joan Baez singing something like "Tender Maidens." These songs aren't interesting - they're beautiful. This is a terrific alblum.

Crystalline delight!.......2003-08-16

Barbara Bonney has a voice of exquisite beauty. These lovely Elizabethan love songs fit her instrument to the tee! It is too bad that another listener had to give this CD only one star because he considers these 16th century art songs to be "long hair". They were and are nothing of the sort, they are merely very "old fashioned love songs". "Come Again Sweet Love..." is a wonderful sample of this music. I could listen to it day and night.

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Move Your Hand Lonnie Smith Manufacturer: Blue Note Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000ARKGJ Release Date: 2003-10-06

Tracks:

1. Charlie Brown
2. Laying In Thing Cut
3. Move Your Hand
4. Sunshine
5. Dancin' In An Easy Groove

Album Details

24 Bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase. Includes Three Gtracks Not on the Original Release: "Jamey", "my Funny Valentine", and "i Can't Give You Anything but Love".

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