Zan [Import]

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4. Ami

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6. Uganabira

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9. Nabiki

10. Nmari Jima

Zan,Tomoko Uehara,Sony,World Music

Average customer rating: Don't waste yourself! Straight Up Garbage

Zan Zan Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: All Our Love To Whom It May Concern Rude Awakening ASIN: B000008MLL Release Date: 1989-11-08

Tracks:

1. House You
2. Want To Be With You
3. Fight The Funk
4. Share The Night Away
5. Straight Up Nasty
6. I Ain't The One
7. I Got Work To Do
8. Why Don't You Call
9. Heat Of The Moment
10. Love Juicy

Customer Reviews:

Don't waste yourself!.......2006-06-13

Firstly I must state that I have been looking for this album, on and off for the best part of a decade. Teddy named checked Zan, in his version of `New Jack Swing', and seeing that I had most things that Teddy had produced in that time, I wanted this. Finally, Amazon had it, and I copped it. Alas it wasn't worth the wait. There are numerous problems with this CD. Firstly, Zan doesn't have an even half decent voice. Secondly the production seems lazy, and predictable, and hasn't lasted the test of time. I only liked `I wanna be with you'. Brings to mind the female group `Abstrac' and the Good Girls, who looked the part, but couldn't sing. Not for big people

Straight Up Garbage.......2006-05-31

This CD comes off like Teddy Riley through-away's! Some of the songs sound like stuff He would use later for other artists. Need an example? Well here, "Want To Be With You," sounds like a poorly done demo version of Bobby & Whitney's, "Something In Common." The intro track sounds like a stupid version of "Missunderstanding," by Al B. Sure! Track 3 unroyally reminds of "My Fantasy" by Guy and ZAN had the nerve to bite off the KING of psychofunk, Sir George Clinton! Zan's on a mission wit' no position (no need for permission...) Then you have the janky version of "Let's Chill..." If you've heard this CD, a true NJS fan can feel this review. The best track on the whole CD is the last one, "Love Juicy," which is a quiet storm instrumental/dub version of the rap track by Wrecks-N-Effect called "Juicy." I think this was exclusive to this album and a rap version was released on 12" as a remix. I'm done with this CD. One track for an entire CD is not worth more than $.99! Some others were not so lucky as I was. This album was probably a prime example for the reason that Gene and Teddy didn't remain a company. Gene used to get the majority of the credit on the production tip, but Teddy was the one mainly on the boards and arrangements. The writings were on the wall by Gene and ZAN. I tear this album down, but William Aquart has written great material for other artists. What happenend here? Hopefully this review was helpful towards choosing to purchase this CD or not.

Average customer rating: Hard to beat

Wagner: Die Walküre [Hybrid SACD] Manufacturer: Melba Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Wagner: Das Rheingold [Hybrid SACD] Wagner: Siegfried [Hybrid SACD] Charlotte Margiono sings Richard Wagner [Hybrid SACD] Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 [Special Edition] [Hybrid SACD] Tchiakovsky: The Nutcracker [Complete Ballet] [Hybrid SACD] ASIN: B000GDH99G Release Date: 2006-07-18

Customer Reviews:

Hard to beat.......2007-02-07

It's about time an Australian recording of Wagner's ring appeared in the catalogues. This is a wonderful performance in all reagards. The singing is sublime and the orchestral playing almost faultless, especially considering the recordings were made live, in Adelaide's festival theatre. Also, if you have a surround system, you're in for a real treat.

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Eat the Flowers Seroya Manufacturer: Zan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mystic Maah ASIN: B000CEWWFU Release Date: 2005-11-22

Tracks:

1. Are You Ready for Me?
2. Eat the Flowers
3. Don't Go
4. Beautiful (Original Mix)
5. Trembling of the Sun
6. Talk to Me
7. Poppy Garden
8. Shelter
9. Kepp The Rut Out
10. Wake Up
11. Beautiful (Noel Sanger Remix)

Product Description

Eat the Flowers dishes up hard-hitting and well-crafted songs with sweeping and intelligent production, from break-beat, to dance hall, to cinematically-inspired sonic landscapes, featuring Sally Hamidi on vocals. Seroya is the combination of such sounds and inspirations as William Orbit, BT, Bjork, Depeche...in this album, the main theme is the exploration of various feelings and expressions: From edgy and restless, to soft-spoken and romantic. Yet another compelling album from Zan Record's growing collection of music.

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Wagner: Das Rheingold [Hybrid SACD] Manufacturer: Melba Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Wagner: Siegfried [Hybrid SACD] Wagner: Die Walküre [Hybrid SACD] ASIN: B000OCZCCA Release Date: 2007-04-03

Average customer rating: this is a revelation in jazz one of the best Here's the Best-Here's My Heart Zan Gardner's "Here's My Heart..." Zan Gardner: Standards Will Never Be the Same

Here's My Heart... ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000059TSG Release Date: 2001-01-17

Tracks:

1. As Time Goes By
2. I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
3. Exactly Like You
4. You Don't Know What Love Is
5. Stolen Moments
6. How High the Moon
7. Metaphoric Heartbreak
8. The Way You Look Tonight
9. Some Other Time

Album Description

Philadelphia mainstay Zan Gardner has long been a fixture on the jazz scene. On her debut CD for Dreambox Media she presents her individualistic and personal stamp on eight standards and her first original composition, "Metaphoric Heartbreak."

Customer Reviews:

this is a revelation in jazz.......2001-11-18

One of the best cd's in my collection

one of the best.......2001-11-07

the voice from that lady is realy one of the best I have heard in years.
she make's the tears come in to my eyes.
O so GOOD

Here's the Best-Here's My Heart.......2001-09-26

I am a new fan of Zan Gardner. What an emotional, free-thinking, incredibly talented vocalist. She makes me FEEL something when she sings, she makes me want to sit up and listen. Very few Jazz vocalists have that talent, I dare you not to react in the most positive way to her CD, to the improvisation and heart it conveys. A gorgeous, sensuous voice. It is professional, with a killer band and they all weave the stories of the songs. I will be a fan of Zan Gardner forever, this woman is amazing! I'm sure you'll be hearing a lot about her, every bit of it great!

Zan Gardner's "Here's My Heart...".......2001-03-08

From the moment I put on Zan's CD, I was drawn in. The first tune, As Time Goes By, starts with Chico Huff (bass) playing chords as if he's playing a guitar. You're not really sure where it's going until you tune in to the drums and realize that a reggae type groove is being established. But not a traditional reggae. Where as Steve Holloway (drums) is laying down the groove, Tony Miceli (vibes) isn't. Miceli is outlining the changes, playing melodic lines through the tune, and complimenting as he only knows how to do - and this is all while Zan is singing. Then the solos begin and it is back to Chico, who plays an amazing solo only to be followed by another great solo by John Swana (trumpet). One thing I noticed immediately during this tune, and it continues throughout the CD, is how deep the groove is. Everyone is so in tune with each other. And this is only the first tune!

Zan shows us that she isn't your traditional singer. She didn't just learn the tunes and have the band back her up. She has become another instrument. She reacts to what's happening, she phrases over the bar line, she takes the lead, she gives the lead to someone else, and she lets the other guys in the band speak. There are several times where she will stretch a phrase so much that you think she's going to sing into the next phrase but somehow she doesn't, like in How High the Moon. She has become one with the tunes.

Zan has also recorded one of her original songs, Metaphoric Heartbreak. It is a beautiful ballad that is set up with piano, bass, drums, and sporadic playing by Swana on EVI creating a spacious and floating groove. As this continues, you are drawn into the story that Zan is telling only to be taken into an EVI solo that builds in intensity - but not in notes. You almost don't even notice the change. And before you know it you are back to the story.

One of the many things I liked about the CD is the inner-play among all of the musicians. Chico doesn't always walk a bass line, Swana doesn't always wait for his solo to speak and add to the songs, and Dave Posmontier supports and compliments everything perfectly - not to mention the amazing solos he takes throughout the CD.

This is Zan's first CD and you assume she is the leader because only her name appears on the cover. After listening to it though you have to say that Zan put the project together but there is no leader. It is a group CD. Everyone had a hand in what happened. Sure Zan may have given the musicians her concept of what she was hearing but it was everyone that made it their own. I can only hope Zan doesn't wait as long to put out her next CD as she did with her first.

Zan Gardner: Standards Will Never Be the Same.......2001-02-20

I have been one of Zan Gardner's biggest fans since first hearing her perform in a Philadelphia club seven years ago. Since then, many others have laid claim to my self-proclaimed "biggest fan" title. Wherever she sings, appreciative fans gather.

Zan's album, 'Here's My Heart...' will now allow the rest of the world to hear her. By the way, who invented the term "standard"? While many of the tunes on this album will be recognizable to you by title, there is nothing standard in the way Gardner delivers the goods. From her low, low alto notes to the top of her range, she allows her listener to visit unexplored regions of a new galaxy, sometimes in a solitary phrase.

Her opening song, "As Time Goes By", grabbed my attention with its unique, Latin rhythms with standout horn and bass lines provided by John Swana and Chico Huff, along with Tony Miceli's glimmering vibe work. Gardner takes a song that we all have associations with, and builds a whole new vocal framework to suspend them on, and they like the view.

Philadelphia's piano phenom, Dave Posmontier is reason enough to pay attention to this album, with his stylish keyboard work. Percussionist Steve Holloway should be on every recording studio's most wanted list with his perceptively dynamic playing.

To paraphrase a line from "As Time Goes By", not listening to Zan Gardner's latest album, 'Here's My Heart...', could be "A case of do or die", never knowing what brilliant sunrise you've missed, simply by failing to open your eyes.

Average customer rating: go go go shotgun

We Are Zan Clan... Who The F**k Are You??! Zan Clan Manufacturer: Perris Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Crystal Pistol Lit Up/Let Down Rest in Sleaze Squeeze It Dry A Night at the Cockfights ASIN: B0009NSDCA Release Date: 2005-06-14

Tracks:

1. Go Go Go
2. Heart N Soul
3. High Speed Junkie
4. So Damn Good
5. Mess Ya Up
6. Silver Bullet Toy
7. Heart Died Young
8. Dej
9. Jinxed
10. Can't Get U Out
11. Outro
12. Surrender [*]

Customer Reviews:

go go go shotgun.......2006-01-26

well, good ol zinny j zan is back with a bang, 2nd cd by swedish glamztres led by ex shotgun messiah man, the cd kicks of good, makes a kinda slow turn and losing speed. to be honest, the cd is good buy not great!

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Journey to Serenity Su-Zan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KNF4VW

Product Description

Piano styling by Su-Zan to calm and relax yourbody. 11 selections. 1. Journey to Serenity - 2. In Touch - 3. The Way Home - 4. Return to Love - 5. Lost in Time - 6. Angels' Lullaby - 7. Little Heartlight - 8. Remembering - 9. On Wings of Love - 10. Bryan's Theme - 11. The Wonder of You

Average customer rating: loss of great talent

Furai Zan Manufacturer: Avex Trax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00027LINY Release Date: 2004-07-19

Customer Reviews:

loss of great talent.......2007-05-30

Great performance by leading youngsters in Japanese traditional music. Would have rated 5 stars if the singing was not too "pop". The group recently lost its leader, a great talent as composer and flute performer, in an accident. Keep watch on the music that'll come out from the two as ZAN.

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This life Manufacturer: Crystal castle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002UX6OA

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Warring Factions Zan Lyons Manufacturer: Foundry Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008G4SR Release Date: 2000-06-13

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