My One And Only Thrill |  | Artist: Melody Gardot
Label: UCJ
Category: Music
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Rating:  83 reviews
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 48 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517908512
EAN: 0602517908512
ASIN: B001LN2BBQ
Release Date: March 16, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Baby I'm A Fool | | • | If The Stars Were Mine | | • | Who Will Comfort Me | | • | Your Heart Is As Black As The Night | | • | Lover Undercover | | • | Our Love is Easy | | • | Les Etoiles | | • | The Rain | | • | My One And Only Thrill | | • | Deep Within The Corners Of My Mind | | • | Somewhere Over The Rainbow | | • | If The Stars Were Mine (with orchestra) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
My One And Only Thrill follows on from Gardot's debut album, Worrisome Heart--a record that established the singer-songwriter as a serious (and seriously global) talent. Fans will be pleased to hear that her seductive mélange of subdued jazz, introspective blues and insouciant pop is continued on this second outing. Mercurial double bass, whispered hi hats and melodic piano and sax flow mellifluously through tracks such as the tranquil “On The Rain”, the torch song “Baby I'm A Fool” and the swinging “Who Will Comfort Me?” Of special note is Gardot’s weightless, samba-fied version of Harold Arlen's “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and the Blue Note-esque “Les Etoiles”. If you love Sinatra, Holiday, Jobim and Fitzgerald, you’ll find it hard not to dig Gardot. --Danny McKenna
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| Customer Reviews:
 As Good As Good Gets March 20, 2009
The Wolf (uk)
69 out of 73 found this review helpful
OK, let's get this straight. Right here, right now. No messing.
This is one of the best albums you will be likely to hear this year.
(.....or next year, or in the coming decade, come to that).
'My One and Only Thrill' is the real deal.
Universal/Verve have thrown a whole lot of moolah at this production and
Ms Gardot hasn't wasted a cent. Gold begets gold here in every way.
As if this brave young woman's voice were not enough, Mr Klein's
loving and masterful production, Mr Prendergast's exquisite musical
direction and Mr Mendoza's phenomenal string arrangements raise
the twelve songs in this collection to heights rarely achievable in any
composer/performer's career.
The voice. Oh my, my, what a voice we have on show here!
Warm, dark, expressive, playful. An utterly gorgeous instrument.
The writing is steadfastly and consistently inspired. Many of these songs
could have been written at any time during the past half-century but
never for a moment are they anachronistic or derivative.
They burst into our world fresh and fully formed, crammed with subtle
and elusive musical ideas.
The gentle gospel soul of 'Who Will Comfort Me' and the sublime slow
blues of 'Your Heart Is As Black As Night' display a completely assured
grasp of both genres.
'Our Love Is Easy' is a blissful threnody, brimful of whistful passion.
'My One and Only Thrill' is a fragile masterwork whose heartrending melody
and haunting orchestration could not fail to bring hope and affirmation
to anyone who has ever had even the smallest experience of true love.
The quirky lilting latin rhythm of 'Les Etoiles', with its' delightful
vocal extemporisations, is a thing of pure joy.
So too Ms Gardot's idiosyncratic take on 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'
which successfully shines a bright new light on an old warhorse.
For one who stumbled upon her accidently this album is a revelation.
I dare you, too, not to be bewitched.
Essential.
A must-have (that will surely become a classic?) March 18, 2009
6th.replicant (London, UK)
40 out of 43 found this review helpful
Compared to Melody Gardot's fine live performances, were you disappointed by her 1st album - a potentially great voice accompanying derivative join-the-dots jazz/blues; all very gratifying & competent but it never quite hit the spot, did it?
Well, be prepared to be very pleasantly surprised by MG's 2nd album, My One And Only Thrill, which confirms that a great talent has truly arrived.
Her vocal-style is still 'cool jazz diva', but her voice now has greater authority, charm & emotion - but never sounds contrived - with diction & phrasing that compares with the very best.
There's also some great playing (includes MG on guitar & piano) & very skillful arranging, which effortlessly & elegantly adds drama & accent to MG's vocals. Don't forget, she also writes her own material - Somewhere Over The Rainbow, aside. (Nicely recorded/mixed etc, too.)
Initially tried to play this CD as background music while working at my computer. Hopeless! Repeatedly had to stop work to listen to the music.
Exquisite, & also rather cool. Love it!
A rare talent March 17, 2009
DLD Woods (Hampshire, England)
36 out of 39 found this review helpful
Melody's music is something special - her voice, her style, her wonderful melodies and lyrics, and the understated genius of her songs combine to make music that you can happily listen to forever.
Her previous album was excellent, but this one is outstanding, every track a gem. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Just fantastic!!! March 25, 2009
Woofit (Northamptonshire, United Kingdom)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
What can I say? After the justified success of the 'Worrisome Heart' album Melody Gardot has scaled the heights with, what will be, the best album of 2009 and might even be among the best of the decade. The sparse instrumentation, augmented with sumptuous string arrangements, gives much of the album a haunting beauty that stays with you long after the album ends. The truly gorgeous title track is, for me, the stand out on the album, but only because it deserves an unavailable sixth star amongst the bevy of five star tracks gathered on this CD. Buy it now as you are going to be missing an all time classic from your music collection without it.
 Good orchestration and cool laid back style but lacking contrast April 25, 2009
fallingforstars (West Yorkshire, UK)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
With a voice and style reminiscent of Nora Jones crossed with Janis Ian you may get some idea of the skilful nature of this accomplished wordsmith. The orchestral charts are refreshing and inventive and a great complement to Gardot's closely miked and intimate approach. Not bouquets all the way however as having heard the album now a good few times there are one or two personal niggles which seem to magnify with each listening - chiefly the technique of an ascending sliding note at the beginning of a line (not just confined to "Who Will Comfort Me"). To listen to a full album straight through of any artist (particularly when the pieces are all self written) can get tiresome therefore variety is necessary to sustain interest and in this regard the tracks are a little too similar in their structure for my taste. "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" offered Gardot the chance to break free from her melancholic bonds but the result is dreadful and lets the whole album down. Sadly its melancholy all the way for this offering- a very good effort but I feel one album is quite enough for me.
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