Friday, April 17, 2009

Vocal Ease

B.J. Ward - Vocal Ease Catfish 5C 062-24323 (1974)

Solo outing from Ms. Ward of 'Inner Dialogue' fame. A melange of jazzy, funky soft-rock musings out of Holland, highly sought after and fetching crazy money for an original - I'll let you believe the hype or otherwise. That said, what we do have are some groovy, upbeat covers of the likes of Neil Young, Tom Jones, Gerry Rafferty, The Beach Boys & Rachmaninov! along side groovy originals and lushly arranged jazzy ballads. All odd but it works very well.

The Dutch band feature Henny Kluvers - Flute, Frank van Luin - Bass Trombone, Richard Pullin - Trombone, Carl Schultze - Vibes, Donn Trenner - Piano & Organ, Thijmen Hoolwerf - Guitar, Frank Noya - Bass, Eric Ineke & Cor van den Berg - Drums, George Souto - Percussion with a string section comprising Sem Nijveen, Bennie Behr, Lex Cachet, Lucien Grignard, Ronald Kok, Guus Valten, G. Gerritsen & Carlo Carcassoia.

1) Vocalise
2) Keep It To Yourself
3) Earth Child - Moon Child
4) Here We Are
5) The Loner
6) Try To Remember
7) That's How The World Is Made
8) The Music Of Love
9) Billy's Blues
10) I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
11) Words On Words
12) I Don't Know Where I'm Going

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29 comments:

  1. Quimsy3:32 pm

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  2. william burnworth4:01 pm

    thanks a lot

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  3. Reza4:35 pm

    Thanks Quimsy , just got back from Holland no chance of finding this ...
    Have you any Cornelius Vreesdijk albums , after the one with "Rio de Janeiro" on it

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  4. Quimsy4:45 pm

    Hi Reza
    yes I have that album - link to follow.

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  5. Quimsy6:01 pm

    Cornelis Vreeswijk - Tio Vackra Visor Och Personliga Person (1968)

    Metronome MLP-15.313

    http://rapidshare.com/files/222524595/Cornelis_Vreeswijk_-_Tio_Vackra_Visor_Och_Personliga_Person__1968_.zip

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  6. ish2:05 am

    Thanks much, Quimsy!

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  7. Reza10:35 am

    Quimsy ....speechless !!
    Couldnt even find this one in Holland either

    THANK YOU SO MUCH I OWE YOU

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  8. Wayneo9:56 pm

    Great! Great! Great! Thanks!

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  9. feint operation8:02 am

    AAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH !!!!
    Quimsy you are my hero, I have searched high and low for this LP and now it appears.
    You have my eternal gratitude !!!!
    Cheers, F.O.(New Zealand)

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  10. winton tostello7:17 pm

    thank u !!!:-)

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  11. music monk7:47 pm

    Wowh! This is a lovely little gem.
    Many thanks!

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  12. Simon6661:50 pm

    Thanks Quimsy, love the arrangements here ..."Here We Are" is the one for me :)

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  13. Simon6661:50 pm

    Thanks Quimsy, love the arrangements here ..."Here We Are" is the one for me :)

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  14. g.raf6:17 pm

    Thanks Quimsy.
    Some sweet tunes on this!

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  15. Economiewurm9:41 pm

    Completely forgot to thank you. Sorry about that. This album is absolutely brilliant. My killer track is "Keep it to yourself". Many, many, many thanks!

    Cheers.

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  16. sound awareness3:07 pm

    monster album, i didn't know this lp, it was an incredible surprise for me!!!

    thanks for this great post!!!

    Please check our new blog:

    http://soundawareness.blogspot.com/

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  17. Harmonix8:03 pm

    Good stuff here, mehn, Quimsy. Any chance of getting an up of the Inner Dialogue album?

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  18. Christopher6:16 pm

    Thanks so much for posting this link! I heard "The Loner" on radioeins (Berlin) online, and no amount of googling "the longer female cover version" was helping (fortunately they actually correctly listed the artist in the playlist on site). Googled her name and found this page, almost exactly 2 years after you posted it. Yay internet! :-)

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  19. Chillox10:18 pm

    @Christopher: Amazing. Exactly the same way I got here.

    Lustiger Zufall der verschiedene Leute zur selben entlegenen Stelle im Internet führt. :-)

    And man I really do love her version of the loner.

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  20. viagra online8:23 pm

    I just love that music because is very inspirational, and I will find everything about Carlo Carcassoia because he is the best in his category.

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  21. Unknown7:47 pm

    wow..........loved it

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  22. vintagesound4:54 pm

    Excellent! Dutch vinyl sounds years ahead of their US counterparts in most cases. I hope to come across this one. Come visit me Quimsy.
    www.vintagesound-vintagesound.blogspot.com
    Let's post some mutual links

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  26. Quimsy2:47 pm

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  27. Quimsy2:57 pm

    http://rapidshare.com/files/222472984/B.J._Ward_-_Vocal_Ease__1974_.zip

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  28. Unknown2:17 pm

    new link download?

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  29. PULIN 4 JAZZ JAZZ RADIO8:47 pm

    I OWN THE ONLY CD OF THIS RECORDING ARRANGED BY THE MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND LIFELONG FRIEND DONN TRENNER....HE MANAGED TO HAVE A FRIEND OF HIS IN SAN DIEGO MAKE IT FOR ME......I PLAYED TROMBONE ON THIS SESSION!

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