Track Listing

1. Another Day
2. Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)
3. Ooh Child/Redemption Song - Andrew Craig, Molly Johnson
4. Red Cardinal
5. Sleep in Late
6. Haunted
7. Melody
8. I Must Have Left My Heart
9. Summertime
10. Sweet Sublime
11. He's Got My Heart
12. Another Day [Radio Remix]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #533890 in Music
• Released on: 2003-03-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
2002 sophomore album from the Canadian songstress. Eleven joyfully jazzy tracks mostly composed &/or arranged by the Molly Johnson Quartet. This incredibly smooth release also includes very cool interpretations of 'Summertime', 'Ooh Child/Redemption Song' & Marc Jordan's 'I Must Have Left My Heart'.

Customer Reviews

Weaving the genres
A fine mix of jazz and.. other genres. Modern abstract, a bit of pop,some Reggae, lounge, torch, even a genuinely new take on Gershwin's Summertime. Very "together" small-group jazz+[name another genre]. Like Norah Jones or Madelyn Peyroux, she takes what she likes from just about anywhere. Must be a trend, this mixing of genres, but whoever said mixing the best of this with very good that couldn't produce fine music? The spare production helps here by letting the mix of musical shapes stand out instead of drowning in overproduced strings, horns and general excess. She doesn't have to work hard to overcome the production (the feeling one might sometimes get from, for example, Dinah Washington) so she can just let her voice roam around the arrangements, using her interpretive skills to weave a kind of effortless magic. Oddly, maybe, her delivery and choice of material at times reminds me of Julie London, whose interpretive skills were underrated by the critics of her day. But Mollie Johnson is definitely her own artist, independent, mischievous, subtle. Great fireside music, or put on a headset and shut your eyes. She'll captivate you. A fine album.

caught by track one
i came upon this CD in the listening station at a large music store. having never even heard of molly johnson before i decided to give it a listen, and from the intro to track one, the title song 'another day,' i was hooked. there's such an easy groove found here - between blues and jazz and pop even - that just sounds irresistable.

imagine my surprise when i heard molly tackle 'miss celie's blues (sister)' - a song i haven't heard since last i saw 'the color purple' which must have been about a decade ago. and her completely refreshing take on gershwin's summertime made a smile break out on my face when i realised what song it was.

to all those music lovers who've been listening to her for years, you're lucky. to those not fortunate enough to have already discovered her, buy it ASAP. she's jazzy enough, soulful enough, and completely worth it.

blown away in the states
It's a pattern isn't it?...these Canadian artists showing us their purity and poetry--pointing out to US the way? Well all I can say is 'get ready to stand in line' because in this voice I think I hear the future of jazz vocalism. Not to deminish the success of Norah Jones (who I enjoy) but 'please'. If it weren't enough that you couldn't not love someone who'd record "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister) in the first place, then ponder her rendition of "Summertime" for all its originality or, better even, brace yourself for "Melody"--one of those moments where singer and songwriter meet with an intimacy that soars with inspiration. A CD that restores your faith that artistry is still out there rich and fertile and speaking to us--if we'll only listen.