Released 1973 Length 34:08 | Recorded July 5, 1973 Producer Dr. George Butler Release date 1973 Genre Jazz | |
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Marlena Shaw Live at Montreux(1973) Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?(1974) Similar Who Is This Bitch - Anyway?, Just a Matter of Time, The Spice of Life, From the Depths of My Soul, Out of Different Bags | ||
Marlena Shaw Live at Montreux (also released as Marlena Shaw Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux) is a live album by American vocalist Marlena Shaw recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1973 and released on the Blue Note label. Shaw's introduction to the track "Woman of the Ghetto" was sampled for St. Germain's album Tourist (2000), Blue Boy's "Remember Me" (1996), Ghostface Killah's song "Ghetto" (2010), and Spanish hip hop group Violadores del Verso in their song "Balantains".
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and stated "it features the R&Bish singer Marlena Shaw in a more spontaneous setting than usual with a trio led by pianist George Gaffney at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival. It is not too surprising that Shaw found her greatest successes in pop/soul music for the stylized way that she bends nearly every note and overplays the lyrics (not much subtlety here) fits that idiom quite well".
Track listing
- "Show Has Begun" (Horace Silver) - 4:48
- "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 2:20
- "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder) - 4:26
- "Twisted" (Wardell Gray, Annie Ross) - 3:48
- "But for Now" (Bob Dorough) - 4:23
- "Save the Children" (Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) - 4:24
- "Woman of the Ghetto" (Richard Evans, Bobby Miller, Marlena Shaw) - 9:59
Personnel
Songs
1The Show Has Begun4:54
2The Song Is You2:28
3You Are the Sunshine of My Life4:37