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Album Details: Classikhan

Release Date:02/09/2005
Label:Music World
UPC:060768752429

Track List: Classikhan

  1. Hey Big Spender  
  2. Hazels Hips  
  3. The Best Is Yet To Come  
  4. Crazy  
  5. I'm In The Mood For Love  
  6. Is That All There Is  
  7. Stormy Weather  
  1. Round Midnight  
  2. Teach Me Tonight  
  3. To Sir With Love  
  4. Diamonds Are Forever  
  5. Goldfinger  
  6. I Believe  

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    ClassiKhan...A Timeless Collection

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 24, 2006

    Pros: Great vocals, arrangements, music, production

    Cons: Needed more songs, bad choice for CD title

    Chaka Khan has finally delivered the project that Warner Brothers prevented her from doing many years ago. This new set is a collection of songs that Chaka personally picked, and I'm happy to announce that the Diva IS in fine voice. The listener ...will hear the full range of Chaka's vocals - strong, smokey, and passionate singing in a jazz context! Chaka's trademark pipes injects new life into these pop standards, and my favorite standout cuts include 'Stormy Weather', 'Hey Big Spender', Round Midnight', and so many more, including 'I Believe', which is the only original song on the CD. Chaka benefits from having top notch production, and quality musicians in the London Symphony Orchestra, who impressed me with thier ablity to give Chaka that big brassy jazz band sound, which she sounds so comfortable with. Chaka has always loved jazz, and I hope that there'll be future editions of 'ClassiKhan' to feature other gems, like a fully orchestrated version of 'My Funny Valentine' (for example) as opposed to the synthesizer laden song from the 'Waiting To Exhale' SDTK. In closing, I didn't expect to enjoy Chaka's new CD because older pop standards aren't my type of music, but Chaka made most of these songs HER OWN, and it was a pleasure listening to her in such a comfort zone (a big Jazzy Zone!!). I'm looking forward to future jazz CDs from Chaka, and maybe this type of music will help her escape the huge shadow of hits like 'I Feel For You', which should be retired. 'ClassiKhan' is a sophisticated collection of tracks, and Chaka must be applauded for her overall performance here! Chaka's. Chaka's World Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: Classikhan

  • All Music Guide

    Although the misleading title doesn't indicate it, Classikhan can be seen as a followup to the Echoes of an Era album she made with her allstar cast of jazz musicians in 1982. The disc is neither a bestof nor a bunch of rerecordings. Instead, it's a set of jazz standards and traditional pop that she recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, with a little additional help on a handful of cuts from pianist Joe Sample and percussionist Sheila E. Followers of Khan who know the singer's work well beyond the chart hits know that something like this is hardly out of character for her. While it's true that many of these songs such as “The Best Is Yet to Come," “To Sir With Love," “Crazy," “Round Midnight" have been worn out by so many other renditions of varying quality, Khan injects plenty of her tirelessly singular personality. Most thrilling of all is a pair of nods to Shirley Bassey, John Barry and James Bond. Weighty versions of “Diamonds Are Forever" and “Goldfinger" come near the ta...il end and steal the show, indicating that Khan would be a natural Bondtheme successor to the likes of Bassey, Carly Simon, Gladys Knight and Tina Turner. The only obvious problem with the disc is its title. Longtime Khan fans are likely to glance at the cover of the disc and see it as a another career retrospective or, at most, rerecordings of the singer's old material that they don't need to hear. That's clearly not the case here. - Andy Kellman, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Chaka Khan

Best known for her superb 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You," RB singer Chaka Khan enjoyed solo success as well as popularity as a member of the group Rufus. Born Yvette Marie Stevens in Great Lakes, IL, on March 23, 1953, she was raised on Chicago's South Side, and at the age of 11 formed her first group, the Crystalettes. While still in high school, she joined th... Read more
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