Rebecca B. from FRANKLIN, WV Reviewed on 11/20/2006...
If you like Peggy Lee, this is a great CD!
CD Reviews
Miss Lee's most recent CD is a success!
Aaron | Aaron | 03/15/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"It is a joy to hear Miss Peggy Lee after all these years, one of her few projects in the 90's, moments Like This is a very succseful album, her voice is a joy to hear and yes she still sounds like the same old sultry gal she always was, she's still giving us fever, now in her 80's. Miss Lee sings a variety of standards, with a jazz combo, well worth picking up, if just to hear the most beautiful and touching version of "The Folks Who Live On The Hill" ever recorded.HIGHLY RECOMENDED"
The intimate Miss Lee does it again...
Aaron | Aaron | 03/15/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Ever since the early 50's Miss Peggy Lee has been able to reinvent herself without lowering her standards, at heart she's a jazz singer, who just doesn't improvise much at all. Through the years she's recorded lush string albums with Nelson Riddle and swingers with Billy May as well as latin and afro-cuban, and even small jazz combos like Geaorge Shearing and Dave Baurbor. This set finds the singer still in prime form and with a very jazz oriented combo... Lee is as great as ever up lifting these jazz standards, along with the great jazz singer Anita O'Day miss Peggy Lee is one of the few last living legends in the jazz world. This Cd is worth owning..."
It's rare to find a singer in the 90's with sincerety...
ab | ca | 01/12/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Miss Peggy Lee sings 14 superior standards in that misty Lee style including a fever influenced Why Don't you Do Right and a hauntingly gorgious The Folks Whoi Live On The Hill. One of the last legendary singers still alive and performing(the other is Anita O'Day)"
Peggy's Last
Samuel Chell | Kenosha,, WI United States | 08/28/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I'm glad I ignored the critical pans of this, Peggy's last recording session. Indeed, she does sound older than her 72 years, and neither the breath support nor the enveloping breathiness are there any longer. The lyrics are delivered almost "sotte voce"--an expiring sigh but with dead-on pitch and communicative story-telling. Don't come to this recording with preconceptions about how Peggy Lee "should" sound, and you'll discover some compelling revisions and revelations.
The whole is more satisfying than its immediate predecessor, "The Peggy Lee Songbook: There'll Be Another Spring," which smothers the voice in syrupy strings. Peggy's own "I'm in Love Again" is one of her best, yet one I had missed. Finally, with Mike Renzi on piano (Mel Torme was right--no other accompanist can touch him), it's virtually impossible to go wrong.
(As for the programming of "Manana" in the age of political correctness, Peg takes to the song with such relish you'd have to be bloodless to object.)"