release date: 2002
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,18]
producer: various
label: RCA Victor - nationality: Sweden
Compilation album by Lisa Ekdahl with tracks from both her two studio releases with Peter Nordahl Trio: When Did You Leave heaven from '95 and Back to Earth from '98; and then a few previously unreleased songs, and some of the tracks from her most recent studio album: Lisa Ekdahl Sings Salvadore Poe from 2000, thus with the consequence that the selected material here is mostly vocal jazz and in the style of bossa nova and latin jazz.
I must confess that I still don't like it much when Ekdahl sings in English and in the style of bossa nova. Perhaps I think so, because so many other artists do (and did) well in the genre, or simply because Lisa Ekdahl's voice makes it noting more than indifferent, and both traditional vocal jazz and bossa nova may be very fine but brought into a sphere of jazz pop and or folk pop is simply not the best mix, imho.
