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Julie Hardy
A Moments Glance
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. And I Love Him - Julie Hardy, Lennon
2. No Turning Back
3. My Romance - Julie Hardy, Hart, Lorenz
4. A Moment's Glance
5. It's All Right with Me - Julie Hardy, Porter, Cole
6. Growing
7. Haunted Heart - Julie Hardy, Dietz
8. Real Lies

CD Details

All Artists: Julie Hardy
Title: A Moments Glance
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Release Date: 4/26/2005
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 8427328422154, 758661405428

Synopsis

Album Description

Excerpts from liner notes by jazz writer Bob Blumenthal "There is a paradigm taking shape for the contemporary jazz vocalist that, while not unprecedented, promises to elevate our expectations and put to rest any notions about singers being a species apart. More and more, the new voices emerging these days are the voices of complete musicians. The best of them are comfortable with or without words, functioning as composers and interpreters, arrangers and improvisers. Julie Hardy is one of these voices. This recording indicates what Hardy brought to New York?s thriving scene when she moved to Brooklyn after completing her graduate studies in 2003. Equally divided between originals and standards, it introduces us to a singer with admirable intonation and time, excellent taste, and feeling well beyond her years. As a listen to these tracks will indicate, Julie Hardy has put in and continues to put in the necessary work. She will be the first to tell you that she is new and still learning, but in the area of personal, passionate creation, has already arrived.

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CD Reviews

Truly Dreadful

David Penn | NYC | 06/12/2008

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I have heard this singer at 55 Bar in NYC 2 years ago. Her latest recording shows that little improvement has been made since then. It is shocking to me that this person teaches a class on jazz singing. Hardy has no sense of time, and her superficial scat singing makes me wince.

A singer with this low level of musicianship should not attempt to scat.

A travesty."

My thoughts on this album

Bettina Muller | San Diego, CA | 10/31/2008

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I was surfing through this site and I bought this CD along with the second album of this same singer based on the positive reviews I read here about her debut recording. I was hoping that the positive reviews I read were truthful and helpful. As much as I would have liked to enjoy this singer, I was disappointed. This singer has a very limited range. The tracks in this recording sound similar and they are not at all interesting. She does wordless songs that I could not bear to listen to and that I had to skip. I absolutely adore Lennon and McCartney's music, but the first track, And I Love Him, was not interesting. The song did not arc and nothing new or fresh was added in the arrangement.

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A fine, fresh new voice

E. C Goodstein | Northern CA United States | 06/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I agree with the reviews which say that Julie is a true jazz singer. I think there is

a wonderful sense of adventure and interesting 'play' involved with the vocals & the band. Hers is certainly a contemporary approach (& voice): she is an instrument in an ensemble. And very subtle & talented musicians here IMO, maybe particular the fluid rhythms of Ben Street on bass & Adam Cruz on drums, & Randy Ingram's understated but complex piano, but the others too. I also like the wordless ones which I think are effective tributes to Luciana Souza & Norma Winstone, without copying them. "A Moment's Glance"-- the song--is def. a new chapter in a kind of jazz writing begun by Norma Winstone (thinking of "A Timeless Place--The Peacocks", but others too), which I for one am very glad to see. And I love the group's wonderful expansive take on the Beatles's "And I Love Her" & Schwartz/Dietz's "Haunted Heart" (I admit a favorite song-- I always like that!). I don't feel the album is inaccessible, if yes it is adventurous too. There is a sense of cool, but I think effective. So far in '05, this is def. my fave album by a new artist-- & I look forward to Julie's development & 'exploration' in the future too."