Sophisticated Ladies - Charlie Haden Quartet West
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74 out of 100

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  • Summary: Ruth Cameron, Renee Fleming, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and Cassandra Wilson contribute vocals to the jazz quartet's latest album.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. The Independent on Sunday (UK)
    May 4, 2011
    80
    The repertoire leaves room for instrumental chops from saxophonist Ernie Watts, while Haden's big bass fiddle thumps out the time with authority.
  2. The Guardian
    May 5, 2011
    80
    All the performances are touched by Haden's instinct for doing the right thing quietly. It hasn't been out front for weeks in the French jazz album charts for nothing.
  3. The New York Times
    May 4, 2011
    80
    The album's concentrated focus on a single mood is relentless. Listening to it from the beginning to the end is like being trapped in a dream with a twisty plot that draws you deeper and deeper into a period Hollywood fantasy of the bad and the beautiful.
  4. Mojo
    May 6, 2011
    60
    If Diana Krall's Goodby and Norah Jones's Ill Wind are strikingly vulnerable, intimate performances of classics, it's perhaps the obscurer selections that stand out. [Feb 2011, p.107]
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