• Binding: Audio CD
• EAN: 0075597951226
• Label: Nonesuch
• Manufacturer: Nonesuch
• Number Of Discs: 1
• Publisher: Nonesuch
• Release Date: 1998-06-09
• Studio: Nonesuch

Manufacturer: Nonesuch

This poet, painter, and former lawyer from Asti, Italy, has been dazzling Italian audiences since the early 1970s but has just blazed into U.S. consciousness like a meteor with his Best Of debut album on Nonsesuch. After listening to his European style of cabaret music, you too will be hooked on the crooner who is widely appreciated for rhyming Napoli with Minneapoli. The selection of 20 songs ranges in style from a mixture of French chansonette to tango. All feature his raspy voice (Americans may be reminded of Tom Waits) with unmistakably wry lyrics that offer lovers and listeners alike the sensuality and complexity of gelato al limon (lemon ice cream). --Cristina Del Sesto

Customer Rating:
Summary: Boogie Woogie
Comment: I don't understand Italian, but the music is universal. The piano is "electric", the beat is ever present, the boogie woogie is contagious, the ambiance is plain fun. I enjoy listening to this CD over and over.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: MARVELOUS Paolo Conte
Comment: Paolo Conte, whose song made in to Mostly Martha and No Reservations, is absolutely marvelous.

A Italian Mel Torme with gravelly voice and perfect timing and phrasing.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: THE BEST OF PAOLO CONTE
Comment: IT'S PAOLO CONTE'S GRITTY VOICE THAT PROVIDES THE RAW ENERGY TO DRIVE HIS SONGS. HIS INTERPRETATION OF A SONG PULLS ONE INTO THE HEART OF IT AND ALWAYS LEAVES YOU WANTING MORE. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ITALIAN, EVERYONE PERFORMANCE IS SHEER TOE TAPPING ENJOYMENT. EACH SONG ON THIS CD IS PURE FUN AND YOU WILL COME AWAY FROM LISTENING TO IT WITH AT LEAST ONE SONG ECHOING IN YOU HEAD.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Makes me joyful!
Comment: Living in the Northwest the days are gray and long. This CD lifts me up and gives me energy I found Paolo Conte from the movie A Good Year.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: great Italian jazz
Comment: I love Paolo Conte's voice and sense of rhythm. I found out about him by watching both movies Mickey Blue Eyes and Mostly Martha and I am hooked. The song Via Via is so compelling that I often listen to it 3 or 4 times in a row. Another plus: the words of the songs are included in the album, so I can follow and learn Italian in the process.

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