Search - Candy Dulfer :: Right in My Soul

Buyer Beware

10/03/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This cd is protected from being utilized on a computer. If you listen to your cd's on a laptop, or desktop, this is NOT the cd for you. Consider yourself warned."

"Where is the Jazz?"

Jazzman98 | Musicland, California United States | 09/21/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I keep reading the reviews here touting this disc for it's "jazziness". Needless to say, I am NOT impressed with Ms. Dulfer's lame attempt to overlay her vocals to "background jazz" riffs. She is a much better player than this and she is now developing "Ronnie Laws disease" - where you believe that vocals are your bread & butter.



There are a couple of fine cuts on this disc worth mentioning - specifically "December"; "Valdez In The Country"; and the last song "Lost and Gone". How ironic....this should probably also be the title of the disc!!!



Hopefully, the next disc will provide a more fruitful listening experience. For unadulterated Dulfer Funk - check out "Live in Amsterdam"....you won't be disappointed."

Where's the sax?

bubicus | Seattle, WA United States | 05/19/2005

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I was originally interested in Candy Dulfer because of her great, groovy sax work with Maceo Parker on his "Life on Planet Groove" CD. I really liked "Sax-a-Go-Go", so I bought "Saxuality" and "For the Love of You" and enjoyed them, too. Since "For the Love of You", though, Candy Dulfer has tried to do more vocal work. Sure, I'll respect her decision to go that route, but when she does songs and mostly slow-tempo sax playing, she loses my interest. "What Does It Take" was not very interesting to me at all, but at least it had some funky groves. "Dulfer and Dulfer" was a step in the right direction back to funky jazz, but "Right in My Soul" is mostly bass-bass-bass-bass-bass. It's the kind of music you bob your head to in the car, not the kind you just stand up and dance to no matter where you are. They sound like generic head-bobbing songs, in fact: I mean, ANYBODY could be singing this and anybody could have programmed them. Nothing special. There are, what, three songs maybe that are mostly sax music, and they're all slow, but not quite smooth.



So, if you like bass music, you'll like this album. If you're a smooth jazz fan, you'll hate this album. If you're a funky jazz fan, you'll wonder what the hell she's doing. In the meantime, I'm waiting for the US release of Maceo's "School's In" and hoping that Candy's next album has actual music, instead of just bass."