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- Summary: The singer/actor/director's latest album features jazz and Broadway standards produced by Diana Krall.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Pop, Vocal
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Here's To Life | |
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No complaints and no regrets I still believe in chasing dreams and placing bets For I have learn that all you give is all you get So give it all... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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The overall effect is that this is one of the Streisand albums most appealing to her fans and her potential fans--which includes nearly everyone who appreciates a singer singing like she's lived every line of her songs.
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Not exactly galvanizing stuff, but the woman still sings like buttah.
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MojoIn truth, despite Diana Krall as producre and accompanist, this is hardly jazz. Instead, it's another nigh faultless array of ballads, immaculately dressed by arranger Johnny Mandel (a deluxe edition has backings by Krall's quartet.0 [Dec 2009, p. 92]
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Streisand gives her trademark romantic-ballad treatment to 13 well-known standards.
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At 67, Streisand’s gorgeous tones and powers of interpretation are utterly intact, and also front-and-center thanks to producer Diana Krall’s class-conscious pairing of her own understated quartet with Johnny Mandel’s velvety orchestrations.
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Nevertheless, the album is really a reprofiled Streisand set for her fans, rather than an unexpected diversion for jazz ones.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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RickK.Oct 6, 2009One of Streisand's best ever!!!
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A.J.G.Oct 4, 2009Thank you Barbra Thank you Diana.
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PeterM.Oct 5, 2009The most inspired and personal album she's made since Higher Ground in 1997.
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DavidH.Oct 5, 2009
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BillPOct 5, 2009
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ErikB.Oct 3, 2009She's trying too hard...just sing Barbra....we and YOU know you can..... But...you still goit it!!!!!
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ScooterC.Oct 5, 2009
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