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Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill [Import]

~ Various Artists - Soundtracks - Song Collections, Kurt Weill, Various Artists - Pop - Traditional/Vocal Stylists
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  • Audio CD (18 Mar 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: A&M
  • ASIN: B000002GH2
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 105,569 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars One worth reissuing, 7 Dec 2009
By Dennis Scotchbrook, (East Grinstead) - See all my reviews
I long ago lost my cassette copy of this album so it's a while since I last heard it, but I thought I would make some disparate points.

The Tom Waits track is available on Orphans, the excellent triple CD of miscellany that the Great Man put out in 2006. It's not, in my view, one of the highlights of that or this collection. It sounds just like you'd expect a Tom Waits version of "Wovon lebt der Mensch?" to sound.

But to my knowledge, not much else of this album is available elsewhere. The Persuasions fine reading of "Oh Heavenly Salvation" is the one track shared with "September Songs", Hal Willner's second all-star Weill tribute (which appeared in 1997 or thereabouts, i.e. about twelve years after this one).

On that collection, Lou Reed revisits "September Song"; but twelve years on from his first version, he treats both the song's subject and its history with far more reverence. Of his two versions, I prefer the jaunty take on the song that appears here. It's strangely moving. Lou is never going to hold his own against Sarah Vaughan's version or Sinatra's, but on the version here he doesn't try. Still, the 1997 version does have a nice guitar solo.

But the track I would like to hear again more than any other is Carla Bley & Phil Woods doing "Lost in the Stars".
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5.0 out of 5 stars getting the things right, 21 Jan 2009
I felt compelled to write a review after reading the previous one, which I think it's completely off the mark.
The previous reviewer gave 3 stars on the basis of Tom Waits' track which is "actually very short and not especially thrilling either".
I am a long time Waits' fan and I think What Keeps Mankind Alive? is an excellent interpretation.
This album is a masterpiece because it's an excellent take on Kurt Weil's songs and for the calibre of the singers (not many albums feature John Zorn, Stan Ridgway, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull in the track list).
So I wholeheartedly recommend this album to whoever is interested in great music (notwithstanding the lenght of the tracks...)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it just for Tom Waits, 17 Jan 2009
By Barmee (Notts, UK) - See all my reviews
I bought this specifically becuase of the rare Tom Waits track. Said track is actually very short and not especially thrilling either. That is not to say it is a rubbish track but at only about 2 mins long it is nothing special either. Kind of like an out-take from the Black Rider CD. However despite this lacklustre comment I have to say that the album as a whole was a revelation. A wonderfully discordant and thrilling ride through new versions of many tracks that I did not realise I already knew. If you are just after the Tom Waits track then don't pay over the top (like I did!) - however this jazz experimental album is still worth seeking out (check out the John Zorn track).
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