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First Take (CD)

By: Roberta Flack (Artist)

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Roberta Flack Artist Snapshot:

A former nightclub singer, Roberta Flack used her unflappable vocal technique to perfect a nuanced melange of soul, jazz, gospel, and folk music. Her sophisticated approach would reach its commercial and artistic zenith with the 1973 chart-topper "Killing Me Softly With His Song." Although the decades that followed weren't quite as kind to Flack, her work in the '70s remains some of the finest of the era and a huge inspiration to an entire generation of female R&B singers.

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DISC 1 for First Take (CD) Album By Roberta Flack (Artist)
1   Compared To What
2   Angelitos Negros
3   Our Ages Or Our Hearts
4   I Told Jesus
5   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
6   First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7   Tryin' Times
8   Ballad Of The Sad Young Men
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (10/29/70, pp.42-44) - "...Flack underplays everything with a quietness and gentleness. More than any singer I know, she can take a quiet, slow song...and infuse it with a brooding intensity that is at times almost unbearable..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Roberta Flack (vocals, piano); Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar); Ron Carter (bass); Ray Lucas (drums).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Although originally released in 1969, FIRST TAKE languished in obscurity until noted jazz fan Clint Eastwood chose Roberta Flack's haunting, minimalist reinterpretation of Scottish folkie Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" to score a love scene in his 1972 film PLAY MISTY FOR ME. Latter-day fans of that single and Flack's later smooth soul hits might be surprised at the overall sound of FIRST TAKE.

Recorded with a small combo of jazz giants--guitarist John Pizzarelli, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Ray Lucas, with Flack on piano--and produced by Atlantic's house eccentric Joel Dorn, FIRST TAKE is a jazz album with soul and pop influences. The recording has more in common with Nina Simone, or even Dorn's work with eclectic reedsman Rahsaan Roland Kirk, than mainstream soul divas of the 1970s. Flack's utterly controlled, elegant vocal style and her churchy piano chords root this album, which has a stately power and deliberate grace even at its most soulful--particularly on a call-and-response version of the spiritual "I Told Jesus" and the heartbreaking "Angelitos Negros."

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