Product Description

Don't Talk is Clare Teal's debut on the Sony Jazz label and includes more renditions of classic songs in her own inimitably jazz style. Features "Messin' With Fire", "You Bring The Best Out In Me" and "I Just Want To Make Love To You".

Track Listing

1. Messin' With Fire
2. When In Rome
3. Stoned Soul Picnic
4. Everything Is You
5. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
6. You Bring The Best Out In Me
7. The Music Goes Round And Round
8. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
9. Mood Indigo
10. Falling For You
11. In A Mellow Tone
12. So In Love
13. I Just Want To Make Love To You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34134 in Music
• Released on: 2004-10-18
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Don't Talk, named after the Beach Boys' song, is Clare Teal's fourth album, her first with this label, and will come as no disappointment to her growing legion of fans. Combining a mixture of old standards and her own material, the album is a great platform for the Yorkshire woman's talent. Ranging from the big-band sound of "Messin' with Fire", with echoes of Peggy Lee in Teal's vocals, to the delightfully hypnotic samba rhythm and striking guitar solo on "So in Love", Don't Talk is an extremely polished production. Teal puts her own distinctive stamp on covers that include favourites from Duke Ellington and Dusty Springfield. The only disappointment on the album is her version of Etta James' classic, "I Just Want to Make Love to You", but big-band fans may enjoy it. She doesn't shirk from embracing a wide range of styles, including funky soul, Latin rhythms, heartfelt ballads and a '50s sounding "The Music Goes Round and Round", which sounds a lot like the Andrews Sisters in their prime. Teal is riding the new jazz wave that carries Norah Jones and Katie Melua, but this album has a depth and maturity that sets her apart from the crowd. --Amy Anderson

Customer Reviews

Superb!!!
These are the words of one reviewer from across the pond - on the basis of the wonderful reviews that have been posted thus far, I recently added this superb album to my CD library...and with only one listen, I can see what people like Michael Parkinson were raving about. Please, DO NOT compare Clare Teal with other singers of her day (Jane Monheit, Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum, Norah Jones, Michael Buble, and so on) as she is in her own league.

The entire album (from the Peggy Lee-ish "Messin' with Fire" to the bluesy "I Just Want to Make Love to You") is amazing - not a clunker in the bunch. Clare is equally at home with standards, rock-era classics like the title track, and her own material (loved "Everything is You"), and I find it very tough to pick a favorite song, though her treatment of "Stoned Soul Picnic" blew me away.

Just like Jamie Cullum did, here's hoping that the magnificient Clare Teal makes lots of noise worldwide, including in America. This big-league label debut is a great starting point!

Everything is Clare
I got this album because I had The Road Less Travelled, and it did not dissappoint. I was singing along to Messin' With Fire within seconds and I love Clare's version of In A Mellow Tone. The band are great, and all solo sections are exciting to listen to, especially Peter Long on the saxophone. Mood Indigo is a really emotional song, and Clare does it well, as with Falling For You, which she wrote herself.
I would reccomend this album to anyone who loves jazz or anyone who bought and of her other albums.

Different to her other albums
Having bought Orsino's Songs, The Road less travelled and Don't Talk (all of which I absolutely love) I bought this album as soon as it came out, assuming it would be similar and as good. I have to say, it was a disappointment at first. It is not that it is not good, but it is different. So be prepared, if, like me, you loved the other three at first hearing, like me, you may need to work a little harder with this one. Worth the effort though!