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Jacintha Goes To Hollywood

Jacintha

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Jacintha Goes To Hollywood sees the sensual and seductive-voiced chanteuse take on the challenge of performing theme songs and other well known movie related tunes. The program features an eclectic mix of musical material, from the almost over familiar “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” and “California Dreaming” to “On Days Like These” from the original British version of The Italian Job.

Her almost solemn and low key performance of “California Dreaming” will completely blow you away as will her thrillingly dynamic and bossa tinged take on “The Windmills Of Your Mind.” Add in a few other classics like “Alfie,” “Que Sera Sera” plus a fabulous light 60s-ish version of “A Man & A Woman” (with electric piano and bongos) and voila! – you have the makings of another Jacintha classic.

Featuring Anthony Wilson on guitar, Iskandar Ismail on piano, Larry Goldings on Hammond B-3, and Ricky Woodward on sax, the album was recorded all analog at 15 ips on 2 inch 24-track masters and these multitrack masters were mixed down to 1/2 inch 30 ips stereo at Sunset Sound by Joe Harley (producer) and Mike Ross (engineer). The 1/2 inch stereo analog masters were transferred to DSD 64 Stereo by David Glaser at Airshow Mastering. This release represents some of Jacintha’s finest work for Groove Note and will be a sure hit with her fans and anyone who enjoys audiophile quality female vocals!

“The nickel?” asks Robert De Niro as Monroe Stahr in “The Last Tycoon”, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald… “The nickel is for the movies”.
This album is for “The Kicks”, Joan Didion and Tyrus. Here’s to the movies.
– Jacintha

 

* NativeDSD makes this recording available for the first time as a DSD Download to a wider audience, outside the US and Canada.
* NativeDSD exclusively offers this recording as DSD 128 and DSD 256 Downloads (see Tech Specs for more info).

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
On Days Like These
05:35
2.
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
04:59
3.
Alfie
04:45
4.
Windmills of Your Mind
06:14
5.
California Dreaming
05:43
6.
A Man and A Woman
05:19
7.
Easy Living
04:20
8.
Que Sera Sera
05:09
9.
The Summer Knows
05:24

Total time: 00:47:28

Additional information

Label

SKU

GRV1040

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Cables

Audioquest

Executive Producers

Ying Tan and Sebastian Koh

Mastering Engineer

David Glaser, Airshow Mastering, Boulder CO

Microphones

Neumann U067, M-49, M-47, U-47FET, Telefunken 251, Royer 121, 122, Lomo 19a & 19

Notes

We are pleased to announce the availability of Groove Note releases in DSD 128 and DSD 256, in addition to the original DSD 64 releases. These higher bit rate DSD 128 and DSD 256 releases are all pure DSD created by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield. They are not up samplings, for there are no PCM or DXD conversions involved in their production. They are re-modulations of the original DSD 64 encoding modulation that produced the DSD 64 releases.

The sonic advantage to these new Stereo and Multichannel DSD 128 and DSD 256 releases, as with all higher DSD bit rate releases, is the wider frequency passband prior to the onset of modulation noise.This results in the listener’s DAC using gentler and more phase linear filters for playback of the music.

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Original Recording Format

Producer

Joe Harley and Ying Tan

Recording Engineer

Mike Ross

Recording location

Sunset Sound, on March 23rd and 24th, 2007

Recording Type & Bit Rate

Analog

Release DateJuly 5, 2018

Press reviews

All About Jazz 4 out of 5

When seeking Jazz, Malaysia isn’t likely to be on many people’s lists of possible sources. Yet that is where vocalist Jacintha hails from.

Born Jacintha Abisheganaden in 1957, to a Chinese mother who sang and Sri Lankan father who played classical guitar, Jacintha got into music at an early age. Her experiences included periods with the Singapore Youth Choir as well as leading several solo albums. To date, she has recorded thirteen albums as a lead vocalist. Jacintha Goes to Hollywood presents fresh takes on nine songs from movies.

Jacintha delivers “On Days Like These,” from The Italian Job (1969), in elegant style. With a saxophone solo by Ricky Woodard and arranger Iskander Ismail on piano, the vocalist is easygoing, but passionate in this lounge singer offering. Jacintha brings more of the same with “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), complemented by Larry Goldings on piano, a guitar solo by Anthony Wilson and skillful drum work by Joe LaBarbera. Jacintha’s soft alto voice helps this track from being just another cover song.

The bossa nova arrangement of “Windmills of Your Mind,” from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), gets juiced up during the instrumental break. With Wilson and LaBarbera setting the pace, Ron Stout delivers a high-energy, muted trumpet solo not unlike Freddie Hubbard, before the song reverts to its primary rhythm. Goldings plays the Hammond B-3 organ on the subdued rendition of “California Dreaming.” Goldings and Wilson have the solos.

Aaron Serfaty brings the congas for the charming “A Man and A Woman,” a ballad from the 1966 French film of the same name. Jacintha captures the spirit of original but adds her personal touch. Goldings, appropriately, brings the accordion for “Que Sera Sera,” from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Jacintha’s cover isn’t as lighthearted as the hit sung by Doris Day, but her tone does justice so that the words don’t lose any of their positive meaning.

High Fidelity Review

After a 3 year absence from the recording studio, Jacintha returns with a new album titled Jacintha Goes to Hollywood. On the new release, the singer from Singapore performs 9 classic songs from the movies with help from a group of Jazz all-stars and arrangements by guitarist Anthony Wilson and pianist Iskandar Ismail. (Wilson is well known for his excellent DSD releases on Groove Note as well as his work backing singer Diana Krall).

As with past Jacintha albums, this one is produced by Joe Harley and Groove Note owner Ying Tan and engineered by Mike Ross. It was recorded in “all analog” at 15 ips using two inch 24 track masters. The master tapes were mixed to 1/2 inch 30 ips Stereo by Joe Harley and Mike Ross at Sunset Sound in Hollywood. These analog master tapes were transferred from analog to Direct Stream Digital (DSD) by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering in Boulder, Colorado.

When you pick up an album that was recorded by Joe Harley, Michael C. Ross, and Ying Tan and mastered by Dave Glasser, the odds are pretty high that the music will be superbly recorded. That is certainly the case here. Jacintha’s crystal clear vocals are wonderfully captured on this release along with the excellent playing of the Jazz stars on this album. The music is thoroughly enjoyable and the arrangements by Anthony Wilson and Iskandar Ismail are very creative. Highlights included The Windmills of Your Mind (with Organ, Guitar, and Trumpet), A Man and A Woman (with Electric Piano, Bongos, and Vibes) and Que Sera Sera (with Accordion and Guitar).

Played through the excellent EMM Labs Meitner DAC6se 6 Channel Multichannel Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), it was hard to believe at times that I was listening to a disc rather than a live performance! Now that is the mark of a well-done release in my book.

Audiophile Audition

Jacintha delivers lyrics with such precision that it’s easy to forget she’s a well-known actress in Singapore. The tunes are all from hugely popular movies. No effort was made to include an obscure discovery or two.

Jacintha’s backing band is always top-flight and this one is no exception. Guitarist Anthony Wilson, who has a couple of killer albums on Groove Note, is a standout. Jacintha works very close to the mike for a sexy and intimate sound something like the jazz thrushes of the 1950s. She is the No. 1 jazz vocalist with many audiophiles due to her and Groove Note’s high technical standards.

Jazz Chicago

I haven’t been able to afford to go to the movies in ages, so I have no way of knowing whether what the current state of film soundtracks is, but back in my day, the movie theme song was a big part of the experience. Jacintha remembers those days and has come up with an album of jazz versions of songs from films that will find you thinking “Hooray for Hollywood.”

A teenaged TV talent show winner in her native Singapore, Jacintha later studied creative writing at Harvard before making a name for herself in the Far East as a singer and actress. She showed her lifelong love of jazz with the release of two well-regarded jazz albums, one a tribute to Ben Webster and the other to Johnny Mercer, for Groove Note Records. She has released three more jazz albums in the last few years, including “The Girl From Bossa Nova.”

Jacintha Goes to Hollywood features a stellar cast of musicians, including drummer Joe Barbera, bassist Darek Oles, trumpeter Ron Stout and the ubiquitous Larry Goldings on Hammond B3 organ, piano and accordion. With compelling arrangements by pianist Iskandar Ismail and guitarist Anthony Wilson, Jacintha sings several songs from movies in a smooth melodic and refreshingly straight-forward fashion. Eschewing the vocal pyrotechnics, weird utterings and off-the-wall arrangements that sometimes mar many modern singers attempts to make their mark on or improve songs, the entire cast simply sings and plays, sings and plays well and allows the songs to speak for themselves.

The songs are more of the pop variety and not ones you would usually associate with jazz, but their melodicism is well-suited for the considerate treatment they are given. Lesser known tunes like, “On Days Like These” (from The Italian Job), “Easy Living” (from Chinatown) are blended with ones like the oft covered “Alfie” and “The Summer Knows” (from The Summer of 42). Others, like “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and “Que Será Será” are unusual choices in that they often are considered to be cheesy and utterly square, but surprisingly the listener may discover a new regard for their charm due to the serious presentation Jacintha and her band give their strong melodies.

Jacintha gives a nice and straight-forward version of “A Man and A Woman” that shows her talent for the Brazilian style, while her slowed down version of “California Dreaming” is a bit of a surprise. And The Thomas Crown Affair’s “Windmills of Your Mind” is a solid centerpiece to an album of enjoyable and relaxing melodies that may cause you to dig out your old soundtrack albums and VHS tapes to catch Steve McQueen or Doris Day in Technicolor once again.

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